Find new ways to fight misinformation
Explore digital tools that help verify the authenticity and accuracy of online images, videos, and reports.
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Data Journalism
From beginner to advanced, strengthen your ability to analyze and interpret data with Google Trends and a range of tools from Google and beyond.
Storytelling with Google Earth
Explore how journalists can identify, embed or download imagery from Google Maps, Google Earth and StreetView to help visualize your stories.
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
Trainings
Video: Google tools for fact-checkers
Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.
2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.
Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
Protect your election coverage
Election visualizations linked to Google Sheets
Covering politics with Google Trends
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
Verification: Google Search
Google Fact Check Tools
Safety and Security
Strengthen your digital safety with 2-step verification, password protection and a range of tools to help both freelance journalists and those working within small, medium and large news organizations.
Elections
Whether you're covering an election campaign or reporting on results at the ballot box, here are a range of tools that can help prepare for your story. Dive in to GIF makers, visualizations and digital safety tools.
Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists
Video: Keeping journalists safe online
Investigative Reporting
From Google Public Data Explorer to Google Search, this intensive course will help journalists interpret a range of online sources to strengthen their efficiency and efficacy of in-depth research.
Verification
Explore time-saving methods and digital tools to help verify the authenticity and accuracy of images, videos and reports found on social media and across the web.
Products
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Journalist Studio
A collection of tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely
Stories
Promoting positive discussion to engage readers
Delfi’s new user-commenting platform uses AI to combat disinformation.
Spanish media group catches the AI wave
HENNEO undertakes a wide-ranging initiative to integrate AI across its operations.
GMA Integrated News Digital’s "InoculatED" combats misinformation through pre-bunking, with the help of AI-powered tools for faster content creation.
Broadcast giant and online leader GMA Network, through its Digital Strategy and Innovation Lab, has won at the latest round of the Google News Initiative (GNI) Asia Pacific Innovation Challenge for a project aimed at fighting misinformation.
How Wirtualna Polska uses AI to tackle toxic content on their platform
In Poland, WP built a moderation engine to provide a safe platform for open discussion
Focusing on people operations for innovation and training
La Converse and École Converse turn an eye to hiring and onboarding processes as they grow
Social media newswire vets user-generated content for reporters
Storyful advances quality journalism and battles disinformation by sourcing, verifying, and publishing content from breaking news stories, and viral videos
Latin American students learn to spot misinformation
Movilizatorio is “a laboratory of citizen participation and social innovation that strengthens collective leadership as a motor of transformation.” Based in Bogota with offices in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and New York, the organization connects people around the world to collaborate and create positive change. They led the effort to create the DigiMENTE curriculum.
Daily Maverick turns data into revenue
Daily Maverick is a South African daily online publisher serving up a unique blend of news, investigations, expert political analysis, and opinion. Since its founding in 2009, the publication has set itself apart with a distinctive editorial voice and a strong focus on investigative reporting.
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
A Collaborative Effort To Fight Misinformation
CekFakta is a collaborative effort to fight the spread of mis and disinformation.
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Fighting Misinformation in India
DataLEADS, the India Training Network has trained more than 35,000 Indian journalists
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