Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/disinformation/page/2/)
For GIJN’s My Favorite Tools series we spoke with Brazilian journalist Tai Nalon, executive director and co-founder of the fact-checking website Aos Fatos, who now leads an award-winning reporting team of nearly 20 people.
In this week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism, GIJN looks into stories about Latin American deforestation, Twitter’s censorship compliance, and the toxic legacy of bankrupt coal mines in the US.
With consequential elections scheduled in many countries around the world in 2022 and 2023, this final installment in GIJN’s new guide to investigating elections focuses on how to investigate online disinformation and the sources behind it.
GIJN is offering a unique cyber reporting training program specifically tailored for investigative reporters. The course is free and limited to 20 participants. It will take place each Monday and Thursday for six consecutive weeks at 10 am EDT, starting on May 08, 2023. Apply here.
GIJN has assembled a kind of starter-toolkit to help journalists track Russian money, political interference, and disinformation in their own countries. From oligarch planes to sanctions trackers, you’ll find over 30 useful sites here.
With key elections scheduled in numerous countries around the world in 2022, this new GIJN guide is designed to offer a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign, candidate, or election abuse.
This week’s most popular data journalism stories on Twitter include how Google ads fuel disinformation, an analysis of the online bubble of pro-Bolsonaro tweets, what marriages tell us about Russian mobilization numbers, and a timeline of the Itaewon crowd crush tragedy.
Shayan Sardarizadeh, a reporter who covers online misinformation for BBC Monitoring, offers several tips for verifying or debunking suspect Twitter screenshots.
Wisconsin-based freelance reporter and writer Howard Hardee writes about the inextricable link between online harassment and disinformation, and what individual reporters and newsrooms can do about it.
A website and Telegram channel operated from Russia falsely claims to be a fact-checking site and, in fact, is repeatedly pushing out Russian disinformation about the war.