Course curriculum

    1. Lesson 0.5: Decide what to do next

    2. Course introduction

    3. Lesson 0.1: Welcome to the course

    4. Lesson 0.2: Turn curiosity into an investigation question

    5. Lesson 0.3: Your first find

    6. Lesson 0.4: Save your first finding

    7. Lesson 0.6: How completion works

    1. Lesson 1.2: Build a proportionate research setup

    2. Lesson 1.4: Protect privacy and redact properly

    3. Lesson 1.1: People, purpose and harm

    4. Lesson 1.3: Use researcher accounts responsibly

    5. Lesson 1.5: Run the pre-investigation check

    1. Lesson 2.4: Search across languages

    2. Lesson 2.5: Recover and compare changed pages

    3. Lesson 2.6: Get a copy of the video before it disappears

    4. Lesson 2.7: Keep the useful trail and know when to stop

    5. Lesson 2.0: Search and collect: module introduction

    6. Lesson 2.1: Search is an investigation method

    7. Lesson 2.2: Use operators to solve visible problems

    8. Lesson 2.3: Search inside platforms

    1. Lesson 3.1: Handle difficult content deliberately

    2. Lesson 3.0: Verify images and video: module introduction

    3. Lesson 3.2: Separate the claims

    4. Lesson 3.3: Read the context before the visuals

    5. Lesson 3.4: Inspect the file and its metadata

    6. Lesson 3.5: Reverse-search the whole image and useful crops

    7. Lesson 3.6: Read what is actually visible

    8. Lesson 3.7: Trace the source history

    9. Lesson 3.8: Assess manipulation and synthetic content

    10. Lesson 3.9: Write a verification finding

    1. Lesson 4.1: Look before you search

    2. Lesson 4.2: Turn the clue into a candidate

    3. Lesson 4.3: Test the location

    4. Lesson 4.4: Using natural features for a match

    5. Lesson 4.5: Test an AI-generated location lead

    6. Lesson 4.6: Reading a coordinate

    7. Lesson 4.7: Report the location you can support

    8. Lesson 4.7.5: Showing the match

    9. Lesson 4.8: Case practice: Sudan

    10. Lesson 4.0: Geolocation: module introduction

    1. Lesson 5.0: Chronolocation: module introduction

    2. Lesson 5.1: Use reporting to build a window

    3. Lesson 5.2: Read time clues inside the image

    4. Lesson 5.3: SunCalc, sunlight and shadows

    5. Lesson 5.4.1: Use satellite imagery to build a window

    6. Lesson 5.4.2: Narrow the fire timing with FIRMS

    7. Lesson 5.5: When was the North Korean monument built?

About this course

  • £299.00
  • 72 lessons
  • About 14 hours of video

Your instructor

Benjamin Strick

Open source investigator

I’m Benjamin Strick, an open source investigator. I use photographs, videos and satellite imagery to check where events took place and what happened. In this course, I’ll walk you through real cases and show you how I decide which clue to follow, how I check it and how I explain what’s still uncertain.