MIL M4 - Complementary Material

 Media and Information Literacy

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Complementary Material (MIL M4)

1. WITNESS Media Lab | PROJECTS - WITNESS Media Lab The Media Lab draws on over two decades of WITNESS’ experience supporting citizens and grassroots groups documenting human rights abuse with video. It brings together expertise from inside the organization, along with fellow human rights organizations and activists from around the world. The WITNESS Media Lab is a collaboration with the News Lab at Google.

2. Training (firstdraftnews.org)

3. For an overview of what deepfakes are, the threats and potential solutions, you can access WITNESS Media Lab | Prepare, Don't Panic: Synthetic Media and Deepfakes - WITNESS Media Lab and read their Backgrounder on Deepfakes

4. Resources — CTRL-F: Find the Facts- Digital Media Literacy

5. Fact-Checking Your Reporting - Fact Checking & Verification for Reporting - LibGuides at CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

6. Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information | Stanford Digital Repository  "This study compares how professional fact checkers, historians, and first year college students evaluated online information and presents the strategies fact checkers used to efficiently and effectively find trustworthy information.".

7.  Fact Check Tools (google.com) This tool allows you to easily browse and search for fact checks. For example, you can search for a politician's statement, or for a topic. You can also restrict results to a specific publisher.

8.  MeVer - Image Verification Assistant (iti.gr) A joint team of engineers and investigators from CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle, trying to build a comprehensive tool for media verification on the Web. The Media Verification Assistant features a multitude of image tampering detection algorithms plus metadata analysis, GPS Geolocation, EXIF Thumbnail extraction and integration with reverse image search via Google.

9.  InVID Project - Video Verification (invid-project.eu) The InVID innovation action develops a knowledge verification platform to detect emerging stories and assess the reliability of newsworthy video files and content spread via social media.

10.  NewsGuard-Guide-for-Educators.pdf (plpinfo.org) After introducing students to the NewsGuard framework for evaluating online information, you may present them with the exercises that are suggested in this file, to put their news literacy skills to the test.

11. http://tanbih.qcri.org/ ANBIH News Aggregator  Uncovers stance, bias and  propaganda in the news. Promotes different viewpoints, engages users. Limits the effect of Fake News

12. https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/WorkshopA+Disinformation+-+Mapping+the+Lifecycle+of+Media+Maniuplation/1_0ylygfoq Workshop: Disinformation - Mapping the Lifecycle of Media Maniuplation - Media Hopper Create

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