Certified Information Verifier
A qualification path for journalists, analysts, PR professionals and public-sector communicators who work with information professionally. It combines quick verification (SIFT, lateral reading) and critical handling of numbers and AI output with a professional verification workflow – from triage and documentation through geolocation and account checks to working with official registers and leaked documents. You earn the certificate by completing all four courses and passing the final exam.
What the certificate proves
- Triages claims by impact and spread, breaks them down into verifiable core facts and documents every step in a verification log.
- Traces the first appearance of images and videos, determines where and when footage was shot, and recognises manipulation and synthetic media.
- Investigates accounts, websites and networks of linked profiles, and states conclusions about coordinated behaviour with an appropriate level of confidence.
- Detects misleading use of numbers, charts and surveys, and tracks down the primary sources of data, quotes and documents.
- Verifies AI output and follows verification ethics – protecting sources, private individuals and themselves.
Courses in this path
How to Verify Information in 5 Minutes
A practical routine for quickly checking a story, photo or quote before you share it.
Numbers That Lie
How to spot misleading percentages, charts, averages and surveys in news, reports and presentations.
AI and Truth
How AI chatbots work, why they get things wrong, how to check their output and how not to be fooled by synthetic media.
Certified Information Verifier
Professional verification of images, videos, accounts, websites, figures and documents – step by step, with templates and a certificate.