Online Investigative Research

This webinar is designed to teach information extraction methods and verification of user’s profiles, social media, sources of multimedia images, videos, fake websites, and news sources. Emphasis is placed on performing Internet searches to find social accounts and excavating social mentions with search queries. Students will be taught strategies, techniques and tools for determining the authenticity of sources. Different methods of finding information by querying within social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube will be explained.