Baltimore ‘looting’ tweets show importance of quick and easy image checks

Eoghan mac Suibhne/@buileshuibhne

Anyone who has ever asked me for tips on content verification and debunking of fakes knows one of the first things I always mention is reverse…

Fake news. It's complicated.

By Claire Wardle, First Draft News Research Director

How a Production Company Faked ‘Instagram Migrant’ Account

Too little too late: The horror of Paris proves the media need to debunk rumours in real time

If news organisations don’t start fighting false information as it happens we risk losing our audience to the…

“OMG I can’t ever unsee that”: What happened when the aftermath of the Bangkok bomb blast was streamed live on…

The difference between the facts and the truth

First Draft’s head of policy and impact, Tommy Shane, explores how different ways of knowing can create vulnerabilities online.

5 Lessons for Reporting in an Age of Disinformation

Agents of disinformation use anonymous online…

How a One Person Newsroom Built a 200,000 Person Verification Network

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Anatomy of an Investigation — tracking Italian bombs to Yemen

Information Disorder, Part 1: The Essential Glossary

By Claire Wardle, with research support from Grace Greason, Joe Kerwin & Nic Dias