Five videos portraying a gruesome series of events appeared online in early March. First published by Tigrai Media House, a media outlet affiliated with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), they depict the detention and eventual execution of a group of unarmed men purportedly in the Tigray...

Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps (DVC) was set up in 2016 to address three main challenges.  First, how can Amnesty find new ways to engage volunteers in the 21st century, in a way that their efforts make real, meaningful contributions to the protection of human rights in the...

Reflections from Digital Verification Corps (DVC) volunteer Adebayo Okeowo The cure for fake stories is to simply counter it with the truth. But then what happens when individuals with questionable motives create false news based on inaccurate facts? This will require more than just a critical eye...

Tools needed: InVid-WeVerify plugin installed in Chrome or Firefox Skill Level: Intermediate – some verification knowledge required One of the main tools we at Amnesty International’s Evidence Lab recommend to all open source investigators is the InVid-WeVerify web browser plugin for Chrome...