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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: Instructional strategies for digital security training: In this session, we will dig deeper into Digital Security trainings, answering questions such as: what are the particularities of this topic? What do learners often fear or are sceptical about? What could be the different ways to approach it?

Bias:

• “Harvard’s Implicit Association Tests”
• “Cognitive Bias Codex”

Conspiracy theories on social media:

• George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication: “The Conspiracy Theory Handbook”
• Density Design: “F.A.C.T: Find all the conspiracy theories”
• Density Design: “The Hunt: An Instagram journey through conspiracy theories”
• YouTube NowThis: “Viral TikToker Breaks Down Conspiracy Theories”

Exposing the Invisible: The Kit:

• “Evaluating Evidence and Information Sources”
• “What’s in a Company?”

Save evidence:

• archive.today
• Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
• HTTrack Website Copier
• yt-dlp
• OBS Studio
• Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, Chapter 3: Legal Framework
• Syrian Justice and Accountability Centre: Bayanat

Metadata:

• Aphr: "How To View The Metadata Of A Photo On A PC Or Mobile Device"
• Flickr: gnuckx photo (backup link)
• Switch the language of Exiftool

Tools to keep/view metadata: 

• ExifTool 
• ProofMode 
• Exif viewers (caution: do not upload potentially sensitive content, as the website operator may be able to view anything uploaded to their site) such as VerExif, Metadata2Go, Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer (caution: this website does not use HTTPS, so anyone on the network can see what images are being uploaded)

Tools to remove metadata: 

• ObscuraCam: the Privacy Camera

Geolocation and Maps:

• Data Detox Kit: “Control Your Smartphone Data to Increase Your Online Privacy”
• Exposing the Invisible: The Kit: "Using Maps to See Beyond the Obvious"
• GPS converter tools (DMS to decimal format): RapidTables
• Google Maps
• OpenStreetMap
• Bellingcat: A Beginner's Guide to Geolocating Videos, by Eliot Higgins
• International Fact-Checking Network: How to Geolocate a Video or Image in 5 Steps
• First Draft News: Quick reference guides for verifying eyewitness photos (archived link)
• SingleFile browser extension for Chromeand forFirefox

Data:

• Exposing the Invisible: The Kit: “Data Acquisition for Beginners”
• Data Journalism Handbook 2
• School of Data classes and tutorials
• Advocacy Assembly courses (filter for the data ones)

Databases:

• ZabaSearch (US only)
• SocialSearcher
• Webmii
• Sanctions Explorer
• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database
• OCCRP Aleph Database
• OpenCorporates

WHOIS:

• Exposing the Invisible: The Kit: “How to See What’s Behind a Website”
• ICANN’s WHOIS Lookup

Free WHOIS data services:

• IANA WHOIS Service (works via Tor Browser and doesn’t have CAPTCHA)
• WHO.IS  (works via Tor Browser and doesn’t have CAPTCHA)
• WHOIS.com (works via Tor Browser and has CAPTCHA)
• GoDaddy WHOIS  (works via Tor Browser and has CAPTCHA)
• WHOIS Lookup (limited free search, works via Tor Browser and doesn’t have CAPTCHA)

Reporting:

• Exposing the Invisible: The Kit: “Extracting Information From Social Apps: A case of exposed financial data”
• GIJN: “Why We Need to Tell Stories”
• GIJN: "How to Write Openings That Hook the Reader"
• GIJN: "7 Story Structures to Try Out in Your Next Investigation"
• GIJN:"9 Types of Visual Storytelling on Mobile"
• Global Voices: Citizen media stories from around the world

Fact-checking resources:

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

• GIJN: COVID-19 resources

• Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit

• Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network

• Reporters’ Lab

  • Africa: AfricaCheck, PesaCheck (Uganda), PesaCheck (Tanzania), ZimFact (Zimbabwe), Ghana Fact
  • MENA: 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 (Ecuador), 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

Therapy and psycho-social resources:

• Shezlong (English and Arabic)
• It’s Complicated (multi-lingual)
• FORUM-ASIA: “Psycho-Social Well-Being for Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines”
• BuSSy (Egypt)
• HHRI: Información de Salud y Derechos Humanos (Spanish and English)
• Medical Action Group: “Self Care Isang Hanbuk” (Philippines)
• Urgent Action Fund: “What’s the Point of Revolution if We Can’t Dance?” (full book)