Alumni of GIJN's four Digital Threats training courses have produced a number of exposés on online scams and political disinformation, from India to Kenya to the Philippines.
From investigating a money scam sent over Whatsapp to exposing lucrative phishing accounts, alumni of GIJN’s four Digital Threats courses have produced a number of exposés of online scams and disinformation.
These courses, launched in 2023, have trained 107 investigative journalists and researchers across four cohorts, presented by several cyber experts in a dozen remote, hands-on sessions.
A recent GIJN survey of 31 alumni found that individual alumni and their newsroom teams have published increasingly ambitious and sophisticated exposés into deeply veiled online deceptions.
Author's summary: GIJN's Digital Threats training empowers journalists.