Exposing the Invisible

Exposing the Invisible (ETI) is looking for a short-term video producer who will help us with producing and editing audiovisual material.

Are you a journalist/media professional from the European Union interested in enhancing your training expertise and workshop design and development skills? Apply for this free 'Exposing the Invisible' course by 15th March!

A new article from Exposing the Invisible: The Kit provides an introductory journey intended for anyone with an interest in listening – rather than just hearing – and using sound as evidence when researching and investigating the surrounding environment.

Our Exposing the Invisible project is looking for a professional facilitator of Training of Trainers (ToT) workshops to deliver online ToT sessions to EU-based journalists and other media professionals. Apply by 24th February!

Explore how to use local or digital libraries and archives more efficiently, and take an in-depth look into their possibilities and resources with a new guide from Exposing the Invisible: The Kit!

Take a look at this new case-based guide on how to critically “read” and use maps for investigation, resistance and more, from Exposing the Invisible: The Kit.

We are excited to present Tactical Tech's first ever podcast series, from our Exposing the Invisible project, in which experienced investigators discuss what drives them and the methods they use. Listen now!

Good stories are relatable: they speak to the reader. Stories that have data at the centre are no different. Find out how to make numbers resonate with the reader in this new article from our Exposing the Invisible project!

The digital media sphere is thriving in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. Crucially, many “new digitals” are collaborating with each other - find out more with this list of initiatives from our Exposing the Invisible project.

Climate disasters are often described as 'natural' phenomena, only remotely fuelled by carbon emissions. This article from Exposing the Invisible explores pathways for investigating climate disasters and how - or whether - communities can adapt to them.

Our Exposing the Invisible project is hosting an online conference from 2nd-6th August to celebrate the people, initiatives & techniques that make investigation accessible. Attendance is free - register by 31st July!

You can’t trust everything you read, see or hear. Learn from a practitioner what it means to fact-check every piece of information you find and intend to use in this latest chapter of Exposing the Invisible: The Kit.

Never investigate alone. Collaboration is essential to your safety, well-being and effectiveness as an investigator, no matter the context. This guide from Exposing the Invisible: The Kit will help you plan, organise and run your collaboration with investigators, sources and others.

A new chapter of Exposing the Invisible: The Kit looks at how combining different openly available information sources can lead to meaningful results in your investigation, using what is known as open source intelligence.

Finding and gathering information is essential to any investigation, but not all data sets are created equal. This new chapter of Exposing the Invisible: The Kit includes descriptions of common file types, methods for gathering data, and a how-to guide on converting your data into a format more easily analysed by computer programs.

Join us for a free four-week online Investigative Training Institute from 4th - 31st May 2021! You will learn from and collaborate with civil society investigators across the European Union to develop skills and techniques for secure investigations and digital research. Applications close 28th March.

You’ve identified and collected information that may serve as evidence in your investigation. What next? Learn how to analyse and verify it as well as how to evaluate your information sources in this new chapter from Exposing the Invisible: The Kit.

A new chapter from Exposing the Invisible: The Kit explores 'bio-investigations', including the collection and analysis of samples from the field, at home and in the your local community.

The deadline for applications to our 'Exposing the Invisible' Investigative Institute from January-February 2021 has been extended to 11th December. Join us for a three-week online workshop to share skills and techniques for secure investigations and digital research methods across the European Union.

Our Exposing the Invisible team was awarded a European Commission grant to organise workshops, develop resources and create an ‘Investigative Institute’ for journalists, civil society investigators and researchers from September 2020 to August 2021.

Learn how to identify, record and represent the images of an event by mastering the basics of visual evidence collection in this new chapter from Exposing the Invisible: The Kit.

Stay digitally, physically and psychologically safe and aware of potential risks by adopting some basic good practices and tools to keep your human sources, yourself and your evidence protected in this new chapter of Exposing the Invisible: The Kit.

From Exposing the Invisible - The Kit: Get started with basic know-how about researching companies by understanding essential concepts and practices used in the ‘corporate world’, accessing useful resources to help you map business ownership and connections, and seeing how others investigate obscure business activities around the world.

From Exposing the Invisible - The Kit: Two investigators trace their process of creating the project ad.watch, an open-research-style investigation into political advertising on Facebook. This case study follows the project’s evolution from a limited endeavour to a growing resource that facilitates investigations on political ads around the world.

Many of us currently live and work in physical isolation, but we are constantly bombarded with digital information. Some of it is biased, some of it is fake, and some of it can cause unnecessary panic. Now is the perfect moment to polish your evidence collection and verification skills - so we've compiled a package of recommended resources for investigation-hungry citizens.

From Exposing the Invisible The Kit: How to investigate or aid your investigation by exploring visual signs or symbols, especially in cases where very little direct information is visible, available or accessible.

From Exposing the Invisible The Kit: As you step into the offline world, see what it takes to plan, run and evaluate your field investigation safely and effectively.

From Exposing the Invisible The Kit: Start building your own contacts, learn how to develop, interact with and maintain sources and how to enrich your investigations with their cooperation.

From Exposing the Invisible the Kit: Gain the techniques, skills and good practices you need to safely identify, interview and maintain contact with people during your investigations in order to gather and strengthen evidence.

The Kit is a self-learning toolkit for investigation techniques. It's the starting point for curious minded people who want to start uncovering the evidence and information around them.

In this chapter from Exposing the Invisible - The Kit, Wael Eskandar and Brad Murray explain ways to find and retrieve historical and ‘lost’ information from websites, to serve as evidence that something existed online, and ways to archive and preserve your own copies of webpages for future reference.

In this chapter from Exposing the Invisible - The Kit, Alison Killing explains how to use maps, geographic data and satellite imagery to find and visualise information for investigation.

In the past several years, internet-enabled scams have become more insidious. As technology advances and skills and resources are becoming more readily available, scammers are able to create more believable and difficult to detect websites, emails, social media profiles, and other tools to help them carry out their schemes. In this article, we will expose internet scam operations by exploring types of scams that you are likely to come across which will hopefully build your resiliency.

In this training series, experts in the field will provide you with skills, tools and best practices in digital security.

A new Data Detox Kit guide, adapted from content from our Digital Enquirer Kit, explains how to avoid falling for tricky URLs.

The Glass Room presents Capsule 1.0, a quarterly showcase of digital objects - old and new - from previous Community Edition series, independent investigations and collaborations. This first capsule explores how our phone numbers, face prints and personal data travel from our smartphones to different third-party organisations.