Verification

Know Your Source: An interactive journey into Ruptly's transparent verification process

Know Your Source is our new website that offers you support in spotting misinformation in online news. Whether you’re working in the media or a member of the public, this resource has something for you.

News Verification

How to adapt your newsroom to ensure fact-checking excellence (Webinar)

Fact checking needs to be an organization-wide culture. In this webinar we talk about how we did it at Ruptly, and offer an insight on how you can integrate an agile verification process in your newsroom.

COVID-19

Italy’s great challenge: COVID-19 through the camera lens

This verification mini-documentary details the video validation and verification work behind our full coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. It presents a case study of how our newsroom has covered the pandemic across countries and regions.

Verifying video in the pandemic era (Webinar)

Held in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), this webinar presents the transparent validation and verification procedures at the heart of our fact-checking work.

News Verification

Balance of power: Reporting the shifting control in northeast Syria

This new video concept epitomizes our daily validation work and all the fact-checking processes we have developed in our newsroom since launching the Ruptly Verification Unit one year ago.

COVID-19

COVID-19: Sourcing and verifying user-generated content to report the human impact (Webinar)

This Ruptly Verification Unit webinar focuses on our comprehensive approach to covering the Coronavirus pandemic through the social moments shared online.

News Verification

COVID-19: Tracing the human impact

The Ruptly Verification Unit explains its holistic approach to User-Generated Content (UGC), guiding our newsroom to appropriately cover the COVID-19 pandemic, from epidemic in Wuhan to global outbreak.

News Verification

Mini-series part 3: Archive verification of Soyuz rocket launch failure

In the final installment of our archive mini-series, we publish an audience explainer video that we produced in October 2018, detailing how we gathered and verified UGC footage showing the Soyuz MS-10 rocket launch failure.

News Verification

Unpacking the process: How to apply newsroom validation and verification (Webinar)

Our first Ruptly Verification Unit webinar focuses on giving the participant a transparent insight into how we report and overcome challenges in covering some of the world’s most dangerous and difficult to reach areas.

News Verification

Mini-series part 2: Archive verification of Iraq’s anti-ISIS offensive

In the second installment of our archive mini-series, we publish a video we produced in November 2018 as Iraq deployed thousands of troops to secure its Syrian border against ISIS.

News Verification

Mini-series part 1: Archive verification of protest in Aden, Yemen

Over the coming weeks, we will publish an archive mini-series that gives a behind-the-scenes look into the verification work that goes into each piece of content that we publish to our clients. We begin with the first video we produced: an anti-corruption protest in Aden, Yemen, in September 2018.

News Verification

Escalating tensions: How a false news report added to the Iran-US military stand-off

US President Donald Trump claimed he made a last-minute decision to call off military action against Iran, while the Islamic Republic was displaying debris it claimed came from a shot down US military drone.

News Verification

Construction of territory: Mapping Turkey’s military wall in Syria

Operation Olive Branch was the name given to Turkey’s advance into the majority-Kurdish Afrin enclave in northwest Syria, beginning in January 2018.

News Verification

Battle of Hodeidah: Validating footage from Yemen’s urban battleground

The battle of Hodeidah was the apogee of Yemen’s forgotten war, culminating in a truce agreement in late 2018 which halted six-months of brutal urban warfare.