Resources

In our Verify section, we provide you with the key tips for verifying information, basic guidelines for fact-checking videos, steps for analyzing images, and advice on how to determine if a social media account is fake or not. Additionally, you can explore very useful verification tools in the Tools section. If you’ve already gone through all this content and want to learn more… we congratulate you for your interest! To quench your thirst for knowledge, we list here some essential manuals on misinformation and digital verification. Most of these resources are freely available online and in various languages.

Manual UNESCO sobre desinformación

This comprehensive and very useful manual is published by UNESCO and is available online in several languages, including Spanish and English. The publication is primarily aimed at journalism and media literacy educators, though it is also of interest to other audiences. It explains concepts related to information disorder: disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, as well as tools and processes for digital verification, among other content related to communication, information, and social media.

Verification Handbook

The Verification Handbook is another essential manual. Published by the European Journalism Centre, it is coordinated and edited by expert Craig Silverman and includes contributions from top journalists and intellectuals. Also available in several languages, including Spanish and English, this publication is specifically designed for journalists and communication students, though it can be a thought-provoking and insightful read for anyone. Through real-life examples and descriptions of experiences in various newsrooms and media outlets, it teaches techniques and recommendations for digital verification on social media, particularly in cases of emergencies and breaking news.

Verification Handbook

Published in October 2019, this brief 60-page manual explains in a simple and didactic manner the concepts surrounding the so-called “information disorder,” a 21st-century problem that concerns how we receive news about what’s happening in the world. The manual distinguishes and describes the phenomena of disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation, listing, explaining, and documenting with examples the many different ways we are deceived on the internet: manipulated content, false context, imposter content, and more. Available in English, it is part of the Essential Guides series by First Draft, an organization dedicated to combating disinformation through journalistic, academic, and educational projects.

Verification Handbook

Here lies the problem; here lies the solution. While the Understanding Information Disorder manual helps us understand how we are deceived, this other manual, Verifying Online Information, teaches us how to prevent it from happening. The document explains how to verify online content by focusing on aspects such as sources, the origin of the information, location, and more. All of this takes into account that verification is a process where clues and checks follow one another, leading us to a final verdict.

Manual del del Public Data Lab con el apoyo de First Draft

This document can be downloaded and read freely. It is available in English. It is a project by the Public Data Lab with the support of First Draft. The focus is on how fake news originates and circulates on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. It also dedicates a chapter to memes and another to troll practices.