Self-paced fact checking training

Everyone works and learns differently, so this e-learning course is designed so that anyone can learn fact checking and verification at their own pace.

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Full Fact's course in fact checking online misinformation

How the course works

Our e-learning course is designed to cover 10 hours worth of learning, which users can work through at their own pace. The course is hosted on the Thinkific Learning Platform, and has been designed by our training and fact checking teams with over a decade's worth of experience in journalism.

The course is split over five core modules:

  • How to find out if something is true. We start with the basics of what comprises the fact checking process. This includes how fact checkers make observations about content - be it numbers, images, audio or video - to try and identify potential problems. We look at the different forms misinformation can take, and how to spot when a certain kind of spin might be at work.
  • Fact checking AI and manipulated content. AI-generated or manipulated content is becoming a fact of life online, and understanding the forms it can take and the skills needed to verify it have become essential tools for any journalist. This module takes you through the different forms of generated or manipulated content, and how to go about proving or debunking them.
  • Fact checking images and video. We broaden out into covering the main Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) tools and techniques for finding out where images and videos originate from and how to check whether or not they are accurate.
  • Fact checking numbers. Full Fact has worked for many years fact checking UK politics and making sense of the numbers and statistics often quoted in public debate. Here we take you through how we going about finding primary sources, how we judge the quality of those sources, and how we decide whether content is true, inaccurate, misleading, unsubstantiated, or something else!
  • Your fact checks, with feedback. To round off the learning, we give you a series of tasks to try and conduct your own fact checks or verification projects. Here you can submit your exercises, and a fact checker from Full Fact will annotate and give feedback on your work.

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