Resources

Information Future Fellowship

Brown School of Public Health under the Brown University launched Information Future Lab to combat misinformation, data deficits, outdated communication practices and catalyze innovation. The Information Future Fellowship is a novel opportunity for practitioners in public health, healthcare, community organizations, media, policy, design and other fields who are actively working on responses to the on-going information crisis.

Media Education Academy

Media Education Academy (MEA) is a one-stop centre of knowledge and learning library about media and information literacy in Malaysia. Arus Academy and Media Education For All mentors designed the modules and resources to cater to Malaysian audiences using local contexts. By completing the courses on MEA, learners can obtain a digital certificate and be the first to stay up to date with activities and programs under the Media Education For All movement.

Let's do the media literacy classroom activity in 60 minutes with students!

Be Internet Awesome For Educators

The Be Internet Awesome For Educators is a list of learning resources provided by Google focuses on digital safety tools for classroom use.

Belingcat Workshops

Belingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specializes in fact-checking and open source intelligence. The group offers online trainings and online workshops to wider audience who have interests in fact-checking and open source investigation (OSINT).

Check, Please! Starter Course

Notion is a note-taking software that designed by Notion Labs to help members of companies and organizations manage their knowledge for greater efficiency and productivity. Notion offers a course called Check, Please! Starter Course on how to fact and source-check in five easy lessons. The entire online curriculum is two and a half to three hours and is suitable homework for the first week of a college-level module on disinformation or online information literacy, or the first few weeks of a course if assigned with other discipline-focused homework.

Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens

Dr Masato Kajimoto is the Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He specializes in news literacy education, multimedia storytelling and social media in journalism. He provides six-week news literacy course on Coursera. The six-week course will help learners develop their critical thinking skills to enable them to better identify reliable information in news reports and to become better informed about the world in which we live. The course will discuss the key elements of journalism from the viewpoint of the news audience. The language of instruction is English, but Chinese and Spanish subtitles will be available.

Google FactCheck Tools

Google is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology. Google has created Fact Check tools consist of two tools: Fact Check Explorer and Fact Check Markup Tool. Both tools aim to facilitate the work of fact checkers, journalists and researchers. Google does not endorse or create any of these fact checks. If you disagree with one, please contact the website owner that published it.

ProofMode

ProofMode is a light, minimal "reboot" of Guardian Project’s fully encrypted, verified secure camera app, CameraV. The data taken on ProofMode can be easily shared to anyone you choose through a "Share Proof" share action.

Belingcat How-To

Belingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specializes in fact-checking and open source intelligence. The group provided a collection of guides from fact-checking information across social media platforms to verifying geolocation.

Interland

Interland is an adventure-packed online game published by Google that puts the key lessons of digital citizenship and safety into hands-on practice.

Choices I Make

The Choices I Make online game is designed by Malaysians for Malaysians. The web-based online game covers three different characters with several fictional stories focusing on ways to navigate covid-19 infodemic in Malaysia.

Yang Bijak

The Yang Bijak online game is designed by Malaysians for Malaysians. The web-based online game covers three different characters with several fictional stories focusing on ways to navigate misinformation, malinformation and disinformation during elections in Malaysia.

Harmony Square

Harmony Square is an online web-based game developed by DROG and the University of Cambridge. Read the synthesis produced by the Fondation Descartes about gamification initiatives in reducing beliefs about fake news. Learn more about the Harmony Square toolkit for teachers.

Learning Module Media Literacy

The learning module media literacy is authored by selected writers and published by the Centre for Research in Media and Communication (MENTION) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The learning module is designed in Malay cater for students who are studying media and communications in Malaysia.

Journalism, fake news & disinformation: a handbook for journalism education and training

The handbook for journalism education and training is published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The publication is the latest offering in a line of cutting-edge knowledge resources. It is part of the "Global Initiative for Excellence in Journalism Education", which is a focus of UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC).

Belingcat Case Studies

Belingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specializes in fact-checking and open source intelligence. The group provided a collection of case studies based on their open-source investigations worldwide.

Misinformation / disinformation in elections in Africa tipsheet

Elections are a very sensitive period, and the impact of mis/disinformation can disrupt the entire electoral process or lead to violence. This guide was developed by the WITNESS Africa team and aimed to mitigate the impact of misinformation and disinformation in elections.

Visual Verification Tips: Mis/Disinformation in Africa

WITNESS Africa has tailored this guide to address pressing misinformation and disinformation trends on the African continent.

Real or Rumor: How to Verify Online Reports of ICE Raids

Misinformation about Immigration and Customs Enforcement Raids heightens fear and uncertainty in immigrant communities. WITNESS collaborated with United We Dream to create this resource to help guide folks to make the content they post easier to verify, as well as help people, verify online posts of raids and immigration enforcement activity before pressing the share button.

Video as Evidence: Verifying Eyewitness Video

Techniques and tools prepared by WITNESS to help verify that a video found online or sent by a source can be trusted as an authentic recording of a particular event.

BBC Young Reporter

BBC Young Reporter is an exciting opportunity for young people to get involved with the BBC. If you are 11 to 18 years old then this is a chance for you to tell the stories that matter to you. BBC Young Reporter works in partnership with schools, colleges, youth organisations and charities to provide young people with the skills they need to create and understand the media.

Archived BBC Academy 2018

BBC Academy Training Manager James Harrod archived instructional/educational videos about journalism produced for BBC Academy in 2018.

Information Disorder

Dr Masato Kajimoto is the Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He specializes in news literacy education, multimedia storytelling and social media in journalism. He published a playlist on YouTube called Strapline: News Literacy For The Rest of Us that provides all of the knowledge anyone who are beginners to information and news literacy.