In this on-demand session, award-winning journalist and disinformation expert Craig Silverman walks you through the practical tools and techniques every journalist should have in their toolkit. You'll learn how to verify and trace images and videos, analyze social media accounts and pages, and investigate phone numbers and email addresses — with a focus on new and updated tools you can put to work right away. Whether you're fact-checking a breaking story or conducting a deeper digital investigation, this session gives you a solid foundation in the skills that strengthen your reporting.

Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist, author, and one of the world's leading experts on online disinformation, digital investigations, and media manipulation. He is the co-founder of Indicator, a newsletter dedicated to exposing digital deception, and has previously served as a national reporter at ProPublica and media editor at BuzzFeed News, with additional work spanning the Global Investigative Journalism Network, the International Center for Journalists, and newsrooms and institutions around the world.