Digital Fact-Checking Agency

1. DIGITAL FACT-CHECKING AGENCY
Wafana = Wahrheit (truth), Fakten (fact), Nachrichten (news)

2. Johanna Wild Ursula Trischler
Journalist and media trainer
with international experience
MA Online Journalism with a
focus on online verification
Twitter: @Johanna_Wild
News journalist for different
German print, TV and radio
newsrooms
Including Antenne Bayern
and ZDF
Twitter: @UrsulaTrischler

3. The false online rumour: „Kagame is dead“

4. SOURCE: HTTP://WWW.BBC.COM/NEWS/BLOGS-TRENDING-25682683

6. WAFANA‘S MAIN FOCUS
 User-generated-content (UGC)
 Eyewitness media
 Content found in social media
 NOT: political fact-checking

7. WHAT ARE FAKE NEWS?
Often used for all types of
false online information

8. WHAT ARE FAKE NEWS?
Craig Silverman, editor of the Verification Handbook:
• Completely false, created with
knowledge of it being false
• Done for an economic motive
• They primarily generate traffic by
seeding content in Facebook groups
• Political = Propaganda

9. Von Claire Wardle. Quelle: https://firstdraftnews.com/fake-news-complicated/

10. INTERVIEWS WITH 20 NEWSROOMS
→ 3 Types of online verifiers

11. THE DENIERS
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12. THE DENIERS
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13. THE DENIERS
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“The fake news debate is obsolete
for our newsroom, because we
always ask ‘Is this true?’ ”

14. THE DENIERS
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“The fake news debate is obsolete
for our newsroom, because we
always ask ‘Is this true?’ ”

15. THE DESPERATE
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20. THE EXPERTS

21. THE EXPERTS
“It is necessary to integrate the
topic of verification into
journalistic education. The
problem is that at the moment,
we do not have many journalists
who can pass their knowledge on
to other journalists.”

22. THE EXPERTS
“It is necessary to integrate the
topic of verification into
journalistic education. The
problem is that at the moment,
we do not have many journalists
who can pass their knowledge on
to other journalists.”
“We should not expect people to
determine what is false and what is true
themselves. This is a responsibility of the
media. Journalists far too often leave lies
‘in the room’ without checking them.”

23. THE EXPERTS
“It is necessary to integrate the
topic of verification into
journalistic education. The
problem is that at the moment,
we do not have many journalists
who can pass their knowledge on
to other journalists.”
“We should not expect people to
determine what is false and what is true
themselves. This is a responsibility of the
media. Journalists far too often leave lies
‘in the room’ without checking them.”
“Verification is not very
expensive or time-consuming.
Making small adjustments –
such as attending fewer press
conferences – will enable
newsrooms to easily integrate
verification into their work.”

24. THE EXPERTS
“It is necessary to integrate the
topic of verification into
journalistic education. The
problem is that at the moment,
we do not have many journalists
who can pass their knowledge on
to other journalists.”
“We should not expect people to
determine what is false and what is true
themselves. This is a responsibility of the
media. Journalists far too often leave lies
‘in the room’ without checking them.”
“Verification is not very
expensive or time-consuming.
Making small adjustments –
such as attending fewer press
conferences – will enable
newsrooms to easily integrate
verification into their work.”
“The current situation is the
consequence of print and online units
still being separated within newsrooms.”

25. VERIFICATION TOOLS AND OPEN SOURCE
INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES

26. WAFANA: TRAINING IN ONLINE VERIFICATION
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 The ‚perfect‘ tool does not exist
 Verification is a process
 Verification is a combination of
traditional journalistic techniques
and online techniques!

27. TINEYE.COM

28. TINEYE.COM
Source: http://bit.ly/2mlJ2Ne

29. IZITRU.COM

30. IZITRU

31. YOUTUBE DATA VIEWER

33. DOWNSUB.COM

35. SOURCE: HTTP://FR.NECROPEDIA.ORG/NECROLOGIE/PAUL_KAGAME
FAKE

36. WHOIS.DOMAINTOOLS.COM

38. TRAIN YOUR EYE
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Source: FB User Peter Bastian, http://bit.ly/2pPTeTp
Flickr user Gudrun Graeber, http://bit.ly/2q0ZUcD
Flickr user: Ulli J., http://bit.ly/2pQ7NGA

39. THANK YOU!
www.wafana.de
johanna.wild@wafana.de
@Johanna_Wild