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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.
Social media platforms are among the most difficult sites to scrape for data across the internet. A recent session at NICAR23 unveiled several dynamic new tools — including Junkipedia, a possible CrowdTangle replacement — that can perform a wealth of social media monitoring tasks, from tracking down who is behind harmful ads to identifying conspiracy groups or influencers spreading disinformation.
Tips from an internet search expert for navigating the social media site Facebook, from GIJN’s forthcoming guide to open source research online.
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Updated in March 2022
GIJN hosted two webinars in 2021 with Paul Myers, a leading international expert in online investigation. Myers, who works for the BBC and is a popular speaker at GIJN conferences, shared his tips on the best tools and strategies for digging up information about people online.
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.
ওপেন সোর্স অনুসন্ধানের জন্য সবচে জরুরী টুল হলো সার্চ ইঞ্জিন। এর সাথে যদি সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া, ডোমেইন লুক-আপ এবং সংবাদপত্র ও টেলিফোন ডিরেক্টরির মত প্রথাগত উৎস যোগ করা যায়, তাহলে শুধু ইন্টারনেটে ঘাঁটাঘাটি করেই আপনি অনুসন্ধানী রিপোর্টের জন্য অনেক কার্যকর তথ্য বের করে আনতে পারবেন।
GIJN’s Hindi editor offers his picks for the best investigative journalism stories from India during 2022.
Many of the lawmakers who made up the historical ranks of the United States Congress had a personal relationship with slavery with more than 1,700 being slaveowners, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. Our weekly NodeXL curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter also features a visualization of the size of the Tonga eruption, an analysis of how Twitter is being used ahead of a high-stakes election in the Philippines, and a critique of some of the maps used to illustrate the situation on the Russia-Ukraine border amid fears of a military incursion.