Advanced Search

Whether you’re conducting public-interest research for your journalism or advocacy, trying to verify a claim you’ve read or heard, or looking into a company before trusting them with your money, business or personal data, there are many tools, techniques, and online platforms that will help make your research and fact-checking quicker, simpler and more effective.

This session will signpost a huge range of methods to help you search the internet more effectively, find eyewitnesses and potential sources, and follow the digital trails of fraudsters and criminals.

Participants will hear about:

• Advanced searching
• Social media analysis
• Finding eyewitnesses, experts, sources
• Verification, geolocation, air and marine traffic tracking
• Profiling public figures

N.B. You will require a laptop to take part in this session.

Limited to 20 places. First come, first served.