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title: Tools 2024 for trainings

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Verification
Verification Checklists
Visual Verification Guide - Photos: https://firstdraftnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FDN_verificationguide_photos.pdf?x76701
Visual Verification Guide - Videos: https://firstdraftnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FDN_verificationguide_videos.pdf?x76701

Search by Image
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-by-image/cnojnbdhbhnkbcieeekonklommdnndci
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/
Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/search-by-image/

ImgOps (can also be used to mirror, pixelate images): http://imgops.com/
Recognice Text in images (OCR)
Free Online OCR: https://www.newocr.com/

Watch Frame by Frame
Helps with finding parts of a video that have been altered or
http://www.watchframebyframe.com/

Maps
Dual Maps: http://data.mashedworld.com/dualmaps/map.htm
Finding/Verifying Email
Email Format: https://www.email-format.com/

Verify Email: https://verify-email.org/
Email Hippo: https://tools.verifyemailaddress.io/
Verifalia: https://verifalia.com/validate-email/
Archiving
WebMemex: https://blog.webmemex.org/

Savevideo: https://savevideo.me/

Download Facebook Videos: https://fbdownloader.net/
Download Youtube Videos: https://www.y2mate.com/de1
Twitter Video Downloader: https://twsaver.com/

Knowledge Management
Bookmarking Tool: Start.me

Feedreader: https://feedreader.com/online/#/welcome/?action=login

Security
General Info and Links
Threat Modeling with cats: https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2014/07/16/why-every-journalist-should-have-a-threat-model-with-cats/

Tools
Privacy Badger: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

uBlock: https://ublock.org/

How to download Facebook data: https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644

How To PGP: https://howtopgp.jugendhackt.de/#/

Monitoring
Monitoring changes to websites
Visual Ping: https://visualping.io/

Distill: https://distill.io/

Follow that Page: https://followthatpage.com/
Resources
Challenges & Trainings
Geoguessr: https://geoguessr.com/ (1 free game a day)

FirstDraft Challenges: https://firstdraftnews.org/en/education/curriculum-resources/?archive-type-filter=Articulate&archive-module-filter=&archive-category-filter=&submit=Search

Quiztime: https://twitter.com/quiztime

Blogs, Podcasts
Global Fact-Checking Database: https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/

Week in OSINT: https://medium.com/week-in-osint

OSINTcuriou.us: https://osintcurio.us/osintvideosandpodcasts/

i-Intelligence: https://www.i-intelligence.eu/resources/

Bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/

NixIntel: https://nixintel.info/

Infosec Sherpa: https://medium.com/@InfoSecSherpa
Further Reading
Verification Handbook (3 Parts): http://verificationhandbook.com/

Fact-Checking and Verification collection: https://gijn.org/fact-checking-verification/

Open Source Intelligence Tools and Resources Handbook: https://www.i-intelligence.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OSINT_Handbook_June-2018_Final.pdf

#### Compiled by: 
#### Minhaj Aman
#### OSINT explorer and Researcher
#### Reach me: minhajaman@proton.me**