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Digital Enquirer Kit

• Guidebook: This is a how-to guide to equip educators, community leaders, and civil society organizations with tips on using and adapting the resource to train Digital Enquirers in their own local community.
• Video: Securing Your Online Accounts: Everything you want to know about how to keep your online accounts secure, including: how to maximize privacy settings, set up advanced protection (what exactly is 'two-factor authentication'?), use a password manager, monitor your account for signs of take-over, and stay safe against phishing attacks.
• Video: All About VPNs: We've probably all heard about them, but what are VPNs, exactly? When is a good time to use them, and when is it better not to? And finally, when picking a VPN to use, how do you pick one that's right for you?

Exposing the Invisible:

• “Who, what, why, where? Verification of online data”

Data Detox Kit:

• “Strengthen Your Screen Locks”
• “Let the Right One In: Make your passwords stronger”

Password managers:

• Wikipedia: “List of the most common passwords”
• Firefox Lockwise
• KeePassXC
• Apple iOS instructions to set up ‘Guided Access’ for guests

Two-factor authentication instructions:

• Google
• Facebook
• Twitter

Privacy-oriented browsers:

• Firefox
• Tor Browser 

VPNs:

• EFF: “Choosing the VPN that’s right for you”
• Freedom of the Press Foundation: “An in-depth guide to choosing a VPN”

Online document editors:

• CryptPad
• Riseup Pad
• Etherpad

Cloud services:

• Nextcloud
• ownCloud
• CryptDrive
• Sync

Learn more about bots:

• Reuters: “Russia deploying coronavirus disinformation to sow panic in West, EU document says”
• NPR: “Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots”
• DFRLab: “#BotSpot: Twelve Ways to Spot a Bot”
• DFRLab: “#TrollTracker: Bots, Botnets, and Trolls”
• First Draft: “How to spot a bot (or not): The main indicators of online automation, co-ordination and inauthentic activity”
• Twitonomy and Social Bearing

Incentivized reviews:

• WPXI Channel 11 Pittsburgh: “How to spot a fake review before you make an online purchase”
• ReviewMeta
• Fakespot (browser extension)

Fact-checking resources:

• DFRLab, EUvsDisinfo, Oxford Internet Institute, The Information Operation Archive

• The Global Investigative Journalism Network: COVID-19 resources

• Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit

• Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network

• Google Scholar

• Reporters’ Lab:

  • Africa: AfricaCheck, PesaCheck (Uganda) , PesaCheck (Tanzania), ZimFact (Zimbabwe), Ghana Fact
  • Sources for Arabic speakers: Verify-Sy (Syria), Matsada2sh (Egypt), Da Begad? (Egypt), Tech 4 Peace (Iraq), Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (Jordan), Arab Fact Checkers Network
  • Latin America: Ecuador Chequea, Cocuyo Chequea (Venezuela), Comprova (Brazil), RedCheq (Colombia), Ojo Público (Perú)
  • Asia: AFP Philippines, Alt News India , Factcheck KZ, Cekfakta Indonesia , Fact Crescendo (Sri Lanka)
  • Other: PolitiFact, Snopes

Reverse image search tools:

• TinEye.com
• Bing
• Google
• Yandex
• RevEye (browser extension for Chrome or Firefox)
• PimEyes

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