These link collections are great starting points for social media verification (and other research tasks)

If want to check images, videos oder information from the web for authenticity or origin (or participate in Quiztime’s daily verification challenges on Twitter), these curated lists of tools include both the most important and some very specialized sites.

Lots of tools, recommend by Bellingcat for what it calls Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

• First Draft’s Verification Toolbox is a one-stop site for beginners. You can directly access some of the most important website at once via First Draft’s user interface (i. e. reverse image search, YouTube Data Viewer, Exif data, historical weather reports etc.).
• Quiztime’s founder Julia Bayer, a journalist and trainer at Deutsche Welle, curates a collection of research tools. It includes map services and social media analytics tools as well as tutorials and browser plugins.
• Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit is an even bigger list, accumulating 22 pages of annotated links (Bellingcat’s Christiaan Triebert is one your hosts for our #ThursdayQuiz).
• BuzzFeed editor Craig Silvermann is curating his very own list in his fight against disinformation. It includes tools for one of his research specialities: using online add programs to find connections between different websites.