I was approached to teach a course on Verification and Fact-Checking. I did not want to begin with definitions, then move to theoretical concepts, tools, and examples. Before deciding how to teach, I needed to understand who I was teaching. The first session - a usual icebreaker - quicly became
Aristotle puts it simply: truth is about reality. It is not about what sounds persuasive, coherent, or useful. For him, truth appears when thought or speech puts things together properly. It is expressed in a correct judgment about the world. That is good news for archaeologists, historians, journalists, police investigators,
… Little did the police officers’ trainees know that the seemingly “harmless” tweet at the beginning of my seminar features a high-value organised-crime asset, sitting comfortably in their own backyard. I don’t tell them that at first. I just project the tweet and say nothing. For a few seconds, the
More people see, watch footage from war zones, scroll through livestreamed violence, listen, in detail, to what was done to someone else. Some even have to review child abuse material for evidence. This is the work of law enforcement teams, military units, digital investigators, content moderators, investigative journalists, and emergency
Deep State - Function Layer When the foreign working force is willing to relocate and invest in a new country, they check taxes, laws, and reputation. Beneath all that runs a quieter layer of state capacity that often goes unchecked: forensic medicine. Sunday Night on Level 14 She doesn’t