Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/disinformation/)
In this excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, Sam Dubberley and Başak Çalı discuss how to use open source research to reporting on possible war crimes.
In this second installment of GIJN’s reporting guide for investigating war crimes, experts offer practical tips and tools for covering attacks on civilians on the battlefield and interviewing non-combatant survivors of armed conflict.
As director of Citizen Lab, Deibert, 58, will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC23) in Gothenburg, Sweden. His warnings about the new cyber threats to independent journalism and democracy at that event promise to be even more ominous, and even more prescient.
The first chapter of the GIJN cyber investigations reporting guide to digital threats covers misinformation and disinformation and tools to counter them, as well as case studies.
With key elections scheduled in numerous countries around the world in 2022, GIJN’s new guide to investigating elections includes this chapter on two powerful new tools that can be used to track down the prime disseminators of political misinformation online.
GIJN member El Surtidor is a Paraguayan news organization created in 2015 that prioritizes innovation and multi-platform, visual journalism.
Amidst disinformation and numerous attacks on press freedom, investigative reporting has all but disappeared from Peru’s major news outlets, leaving a handful of small nonprofit digital outlets to carry the mantle of accountability reporting.
Investigative journalists intending to cover social media and its societial effects must understand the intricacies of the companies that drive them, and think critically about novel angles of coverage.
A panel at the 2023 International Journalism Festival in Perugia explored the implications for journalism of Twitter “dying” and Facebook’s pivot away from news.
GIJN has launched the first cohort of its six-week, online Digital Threats Course, which will train 23 journalists from 20 countries cross Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and Africa.