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Learn with examples, quizzes and tips from AFP's global digital investigations team, the world's largest team of fact checkers
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Save time with new skills to search, verify and work safely online
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Earn your first certificate in less than one hour
Digital Investigation Techniques
Multilingual open courses for journalists and journalism students from leading global news agency AFP, supported by the Google News Initiative
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Earn up to three Master Certificates by completing the Basics, Intermediate and Advanced courses.
Digital Investigation Techniques - Basics
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More than 2 billion people will vote in 2024. Discover our course in three parts on tackling election disinformation for journalists and journalism students. You will learn:
- How much is spent on political ads
- How to monitor online activity
- How to identify and verify the main types of disinformation that circulate before, during and after an election
- How to create a collaborative project
- How to monitor online activity
- How to identify and verify the main types of disinformation that circulate before, during and after an election
- How to create a collaborative project
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Testimonials
Robin Ewing
"Disinformation and misinformation is extremely problematic. It’s gone into every kind of area -- health, politics and beyond. So it’s a real problem, and I think I’m really impressed with the AFP Fact Check team and what they are doing, and to be able to bring that into the classroom and teach students the tools to be able to do digital investigations is incredibly important journalism education."
Masato Kajimoto
"Each module is what we call a 'bite-sized' unit. So you can probably spend one or two hours to finish one. I can give students assignments to finish all those courses so by the time they come to my class, they already know the tools and they know all the basics. So that works really well."
Alice Antheaume
"Tested and approved by our team, the AFP modules are perfect "holiday homework" for students at the Sciences Po School of Journalism. In less than 1h each day, they prepare future journalists for the first semester of classes, and beyond, for the production of reliable and verified information, while boosting their agility with digital tools."
Abe Wong
"I’ve finished all of the courses. And out of those courses, my favorite course is the geolocation. The mapping tools they are really helpful and handy. It taught me to look into all the details that I have left in our daily life. For example the car plates, the zoom in technique, or the languages, they are really useful in our reporting."
AFP videos with fact-checking tips won prizes at the 2023 Lovie Awards, the 2024 WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards and the 2024 INMA Global Media Awards
