Improve your critical thinking

Learn how to spot clues by asking the right questions, spotting anomalies and reading between the lines.

Practice the key tools

Including reverse image and video search, geo-location and identifying AI-generated content.

Sift the good and bad sources

Analyse information sources and learn how to tell which are robust and which should be treated with caution.

About the Course

Delivered by a team with 16 years' of fact checking experience, this is the essential 101 to fact checking information online. We cover how to check statistics, identify reliable and unreliable sources, verifying images, video and audio content, and how to spot AI-generated and manipulated content.  We have three core principles to delivering training: 1. Lead by example - everything we cover will be supported by real-life examples from our years of experience. 2. Keep things human - our content is delivered by real fact checkers sharing their own stories and perspectives. 3. Make it fun - fact checking shouldn't be a chore. We include both serious and light-hearted content. Your course fee goes straight back to us as a charity, which will fund our work fighting against misinformation.

Meet Your Instructor

Hello, my name is Joe and I've been fact checking with Full Fact for the past 15 years. As a charity, we combat misinformation both through fact checking and by giving people the knowledge, skills and confidence to fact check for themselves.  This course is all about helping you to become a brilliant fact checker - whether you use it professionally or as a private citizen. I hope that we will show you the fun and enormous depth of what we do, and come away feeling more confident and eager to sort fact from fiction.  Have a great course!

Course Curriculum

9 Chapters · 61 Lessons

  1. 1

    Welcome to the course

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      0.1 Let's get started

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      0.2 Your starting point

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    1. How to find out if something is true

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      1.1 Introduction

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      1.2 Decide what you're checking

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      1.3 Dissect your own claim

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      1.4 Dissect your own claim - answers

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      1.5 Observe what's in front of you

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      1.6 Can you trust this?

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      1.7 Can you trust this - answers

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      1.8 Check the claim's context

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      1.9 Reach out for help

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      1.10 Find the source or original version

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      1.11 Section test

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    2. Fact checking AI and manipulated content

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      2.1 Introduction

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      2.2 AI quiz

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      2.3 The process for checking manipulated content

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      2.4 Decide what you're checking

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      2.5 Observe what's in front of you

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      2.6 Check the claim's context

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      2.7 Reach out for help

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      2.8 Find the source or original version

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      2.9 Diagnose the problem

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      2.10 The types of AI and manipulation

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      2.11 Image and video manipulation types

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      2.12 What we've learned

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    3. You be the fact checker

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      3.1 Introduction

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      3.2 Assignment 1

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    4. Fact checking images and video

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      4.1 Decide what you're checking

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      4.2 Observe what's in front of you

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      4.3 Check the claim's context

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      4.4 How reverse image search works

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      4.5 Reach out and find the original version

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      4.6 How reverse video search works

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      4.7 Your turn to check

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      4.8 Would you send this to your editor?

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      4.9 A new development

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      4.10 What do you know now?

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      4.11 Seek the original source - again

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      4.12 Finding the answer

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    5. You be the fact checker

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      5.1 Introduction

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      5.2 Assignment 2

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      5.3 Assignment 3

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    6. Fact checking numbers

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      6.1 Introduction

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      6.2 Audience understanding

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      6.3 Audience understanding (continued)

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      6.4 Accuracy versus understanding

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      6.5 The process for checking numbers

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      6.6 Decide what you're checking

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      6.7 Observe what's in front of you

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      6.8 Check the claim's context

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      6.9 Get help and find the primary source

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      6.10 Primary sources quiz

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      6.11 Find the primary source (continued)

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      6.12 Diagnose the problem

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      6.13 What we've learned

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      6.14 Checking numbers in practice

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    7. You be the fact checker

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      7.1 Introduction

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      7.2 Assignment 4

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    8. Finishing the course

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      8.1 Almost there

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      8.2 How are you feeling?

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      8.3 Thank you

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As a charity, we rely on raising income to continue our work. Your course fee will go towards our charitable objectives and will help us to continue our fight against misinformation.

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