Available Course
Detecting Election Interference
English
Investigating Modern Threats: A Journalist's Guide to Digital Age Investigations
This course is designed for investigative journalists, fact-checkers, digital media professionals, and civil society researchers who need practical skills to detect and document coordinated manipulation campaigns on social media platforms, particularly during election periods.
Learning outcomes
- How to find political hashtags on TikTok without getting lost in the algorithm (10 minutes on your phone)
- How to set up a free Apify account and run your first data extraction (no coding required)
- What "coordinated behavior" actually looks like in a spreadsheet (spoiler: it's often obvious)
- How to document what you find so others can verify it
- Why election authorities miss this stuff (they're looking at TV ads while campaigns happen on TikTok)
- Real examples from Romania where this method revealed massive hidden campaigns