Don’t be fooled: The journalist’s guide to foiling fake news

Trust is the currency of the media, and — just like actual money — it’s in short supply at the moment. Media editor of BuzzFeed News, Craig Silverman, has wrangled some of the industry’s top fact-checkers and myth-busters to produce the latest version of the Verification Handbook For Disinformation and Media Manipulation, a veritable trove of methodologies, practices and examples to help the journalist separate fact from crap, and (re)gain trust from their reader.

“We are being targeted by coordinated and well-funded campaigns to capture our attention, trick us into amplifying messages, and bend us to the will of states and other powerful forces. The good news is this creates an opportunity — and imperative — for investigation.”

Craig Silverman, editor, Verification Handbook For Disinformation and Media Manipulation

The book is published by the European Journalism Centre and supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies.