• The Kit
  • What is the Kit?
  • Who is The Kit for?
  • Who is behind this kit?
• You Are Already an Investigator
  • So you’re here
  • Investigation is a mindset
  • Risks and rewards
  • This kit is yours
• What Makes an Investigation
  • Building solid evidence
  • Without documentation, it didn’t happen
  • If it’s not verified, it’s not valid
  • Taking care of your emotions
  • Start where you are
• Safety First!
  • Do No Harm
  • What are you keeping safe?
  • Context is everything / One size does not fit all
  • Risk assessment and risk mitigation
  • Digital safety
  • Field safety
  • Resources
  • Glossary

HOW YOU INVESTIGATE

• Search Smarter by Dorking
  • A brief history of dorking
  • To dork or not to dork
  • How dorking works
  • Dorking for Dummies
  • Dork It Yourself
  • Defensive dorking
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Retrieving and Archiving Information from Websites
  • Archiving and retrieving content with the Wayback Machine
  • Other ways to retrieve and archive webpages
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• How to See What’s Behind a Website
  • A website and its elements
  • Basic WHOIS Look-up
  • Historic WHOIS
  • Reverse WHOIS Look-up
  • Metadata analysis
  • Exposing Hidden Web Content
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Using Maps to See Beyond the Obvious
  • Geographic information is everywhere
  • Collecting evidence from reference maps and photographs
  • Visualising datasets in thematic maps
  • Drawing, Measuring and Analysing Reference Maps
  • Collecting and placing your own data on maps
  • Revealing details with satellite imagery
  • Using map-based tools in investigations
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Away From Your Screen, Out in the Field
  • Why you need field research
  • Skills you’ll need
  • The research cycle
  • Planning for field research
  • Before you go
  • In the field
  • When you get home
  • What next?
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Interviews: the Human Element of Your Investigation
  • Mitigating Risks of Interviews
  • Before the Interview: Preparation
  • During the Interview
  • Interviews Requiring Special Approach
  • After the interview
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• How to Manage Your Sources
  • Creating an Agenda and Database
  • Building Trust
  • Keeping Contact: the Law of the Three Calls
  • Is Your Source Compromised?
  • Protecting Sources
  • Maintaining Boundaries
  • Risk Assessment
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Gathering Visual Evidence
  • Images as evidence
  • Contexts of using images in research
  • Visual research
  • From questions to images
  • Essential practices for capturing visual evidence
  • Key features of an image for a good composition
  • Managing visual evidence
  • Stay alert, feel the flow of the space
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Evaluating Evidence and Information Sources
  • Developing a hypothesis
  • Types of evidence and searching for proof
  • Analysing evidence
  • Analysing competing hypotheses
  • Managing evidence
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Data Acquisition for Beginners
  • File Types and Machine-Readable Formats
  • Scraping Lists and Tables with Google Sheets
  • Wrangling Data from PDFs
  • Retrieving Data from APIs
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Get Your Facts Straight: The Basics of Fact-Checking
  • A fact-checker’s mindset
  • How to get started with fact-checking?
  • A perspective from India
  • A Nepal experience
  • How to stay safe while fact-checking
  • Fact-checking the fact-checkers
  • How can fact-checking be an integral part of investigation?
  • What are the challenges of fact-checking?
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Investigation is Collaboration: How to Make It Work
  • Never investigate alone!
  • What are the benefits of collaboration?
  • Putting together the (dream)team
  • Before you and the team hit the road
  • On the “job”
  • Collaboration follow-up
  • Resources
• Navigating Libraries and Archives for Investigations
  • Love people from archives and libraries
  • Libraries and archives: what’s the difference?
  • Making the most out of reference services
  • Newspapers archives: remembering the potential of history
  • Digging for treasure: why thematic archives are so important for investigators
  • Academic journals: an endless source of empirical evidence
  • And finally, are there any other sources?
  • Index of libraries and archives
  • Resources
  • Glossary

WHAT YOU INVESTIGATE

• OSINT – Diving into an ‘Ocean’ of Information
  • What OSINT is about
  • Examples of how to investigate with OSINT
  • Leaks, Transparency, Safety and Power
  • The power of OSINT
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Supply Chain and Product Investigations
  • Shining a light on where our products really come from
  • What makes a supply chain investigation
  • How and Where Do I Start?
  • Mapping and Profiling Actors
  • Inspiration and Guidance: a sample investigation
  • Risks and Considerations
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Extracting Information From Social Apps: A case of exposed financial data
  • What’s going on behind the screen?
  • Public by Default
  • What seems private might be public
  • Making an impact
  • The ethical dilemmas of exposing privacy failures
  • Digital security when working with other people’s data
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Exploring Connections Between Political Parties and Personal Data Brokers in the UK
  • How we collected the data
  • How we analysed the data
  • Expectations and Findings
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Signs, Symbols and Other Visual Clues
  • Signs and symbols as evidence
  • Politics of graffiti, graffiti of politics
  • Professional efficiency
  • Strictly secret
  • Photography, mapping, power
  • What’s in a code name
  • Hashtags of evidence
  • Our Data in a PNR
  • Decoding the invisible
  • There is more
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• ad.watch - Investigating Political Advertisements on Facebook
  • Data on political ads on social media platforms
  • Towards ad.watch
  • Publishing ad.watch
  • Forks in the road
  • After publishing ad.watch
  • Key takeaways
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• What’s in a Company?
  • Why would I investigate a company?
  • Finding company information
  • Finding companies connected to a person
  • Collecting background information about a company
  • Identifying beneficial owners
  • Building a company profile
  • You made it here, where next?
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Bio-investigations in the field
  • What is a bio-investigation?
  • Investigate, cook, live
  • Regaining control of information in your environment
  • Prepare your protocol for samples
  • Choosing sampling areas
  • Taking soil samples
  • Taking water samples
  • Monitoring air
  • Other markers and data in your environment
  • Analyse or share your samples
  • Bio-investigation as a community act
  • Resources
  • Glossary
• Thinking Critically About Maps: Researching, Resisting and Re-imagining the World
  • The Many Norths
  • The Critical Map
  • Maps & UnMaps
  • Stay critical
  • Resources
  • Glossary

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• Credits and Licensing
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• Data Use Policy
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