Welcome to
CEDMO’s Fact-Checking
Distinguishing fact from fiction has never been more critical. This page is your gateway to mastering fact-checking techniques, testing your skills, and accessing powerful tools to help you verify information. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to expand your expertise, we’re here to help you become a more effective fact-checker.
Welcome to
CEDMO’s Fact-Checking
Distinguishing fact from fiction has never been more critical. This page is your gateway to mastering fact-checking techniques, testing your skills, and accessing powerful tools to help you verify information. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to expand your expertise, we’re here to help you become a more effective fact-checker.
Learn Fact-Checking
Techniques with AFP
Kickstart your fact-checking journey with a series of six expert-led video tutorials from AFP available in English, Polish, Czech, and Slovak. Each video covers a specific technique that will arm you with the skills needed to verify information and spot misinformation. Whether you’re checking the authenticity of images or analysing metadata, these tutorials will guide you every step of the way.
Advanced web search
Using Metadata
Geolocation
Reverse Image Search
Reverse Video Search
False information on social networks – five tips
Test Your Knowledge:
Quizzes
Think you’ve mastered the basics? Test your skills with three interactive quizzes. These will challenge what you’ve learned from the video tutorials and help you practice fact-checking in real-life scenarios.
Online Guide:
How to Verify Facts
If you’re looking for a deeper dive into fact-checking, explore our comprehensive online guide. This educational material provides step-by-step instructions on how to verify news stories, images, and videos using reliable tools and techniques.
Play and Learn:
Factology Checker Game
Learning can be fun too! Test your fact-checking abilities in a playful environment with the Factology Checker game. Developed by KINIT, this game challenges you to apply fact-checking techniques in a series of engaging scenarios.
Essential Tool: InVID-
WeVerify Verification Plugin
For those serious about fact-checking, the InVID-WeVerify plugin is a must-have. This tool allows you to verify videos, images, and other multimedia content with ease. Whether you’re a professional or a passionate fact-checker, this plugin will enhance your verification process.
Learn Digital Investigation Techniques with AFP: Training Modules for Media Professionals
Digital Investigation Techniques—Open-access Learning Path
These open-access digital courses, developed by AFP and supported by the Google News Initiative, provide practical training for journalists and journalism students who want to strengthen their online investigation and verification skills. The modules help learners navigate digital environments with confidence, avoid misinformation, and stay safe while reporting. Each course offers clear step-by-step lessons, short video demonstrations, detailed explanations of tools and techniques, and quizzes to test knowledge along the way. Designed for all experience levels, the learning paths guide users from essential skills to advanced investigative techniques. The courses are available in English.
Module 1: Basics—Foundations of Digital Investigation
This introductory learning path offers six beginner-friendly modules that teach essential online investigation skills. Users learn how to refine search engine queries, conduct structured searches across major social media platforms, retrieve archived content, and perform reverse image searches to confirm authenticity. The course also introduces the principles of basic geolocation and offers an accessible overview of how to identify and verify AI‑generated content. Together, these modules help learners build a solid foundation in online sourcing, verification, and digital reasoning.
Module 2: Intermediate—Expanding Your Digital Verification Toolkit
In the intermediate modules, learners dive deeper into online verification by exploring advanced search techniques across a wider range of platforms, including TikTok, Telegram, VKontakte, LinkedIn, and others. Participants also learn how to use the Verification Plugin (InVID‑WeVerify) to analyze images and improve social media investigation workflows. The course highlights practical strategies for staying safe online, preventing phishing attempts, and understanding one’s digital footprint. It further provides a structured guide to monitoring election campaigns and recognizing common patterns of election-related disinformation.
Module 3: Advanced—High-level Techniques for Digital Investigations
This advanced set of modules teaches sophisticated techniques for verifying online content in high-pressure reporting situations. Learners practice complex geolocation using multiple mapping tools and discover workflows for confirming breaking news content through precise searches, metadata extraction, and contextual analysis. The training also covers verification of health-related claims, helping journalists better understand scientific sources and avoid misleading interpretations. Finally, the climate-focused module equips users with the knowledge to assess environmental claims, identify types of climate misinformation, and distinguish between verifiable and non-verifiable content.
Don’t Get Lost in Falsehoods: How to Identify, Verify, and Explain Hoaxes
Discover why people believe hoaxes and what leads them to do so, how to communicate with them meaningfully even when you fundamentally disagree, and where to find trustworthy information. This series of four videos by Demagog.sk guides you through the basics of respectful communication, introduces key fact‑checking techniques, and offers tips on how to identify content created by artificial intelligence. The videos are available in Slovak with Slovak subtitles and also in a version with English subtitles.
Strengthen Your
Media Literacy
Media literacy is a crucial skill in today’s digital age, where the sheer volume of information can overwhelm even the most experienced media consumers.
Strengthen Your
Media Literacy
Media literacy is a crucial skill in today’s digital age, where the sheer volume of information can overwhelm even the most experienced media consumers.