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AI Content Verification Checklist
What to check when content may have been generated or altered by an AI system, organized around provenance rather than visual artefacts.
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Information Manipulation
The recurring techniques used to mislead audiences, and how to name them.
Manipulation techniques are repetitive. Content is stripped of its original context, framed to trigger a strong emotional reaction, attributed to a source that never said it, or amplified to appear more common than it is. Naming a technique is useful because it moves the question from whether you agree with the message to how the message was built.
This page collects everything published under information manipulation: 3 lessons, 1 practice exercise, and 3 printable resources, alongside any articles and reports that draw on it.
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What AI-Generated Content Changes
Which verification habits still work when text, images, and audio can be produced at near-zero cost, and which ones quietly stopped working.
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Seven Questions Before You Share: Printable Checklist
A one-page checklist of seven questions to run before forwarding content, sized for printing, pinning, or saving to a phone.
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Toolkit resource
AI Content Verification Checklist
What to check when content may have been generated or altered by an AI system, organized around provenance rather than visual artefacts.
Article
What AI-Generated Content Changes
Which verification habits still work when text, images, and audio can be produced at near-zero cost, and which ones quietly stopped working.
Toolkit resource
Seven Questions Before You Share: Printable Checklist
A one-page checklist of seven questions to run before forwarding content, sized for printing, pinning, or saving to a phone.
Lesson
How Images Lose Their Original Context
Recontextualized photographs mislead more often than manipulated ones. Here is how it happens and how to trace an image back to its origin.
Toolkit resource
Image Context Checklist: Tracing a Photograph
Six checks for establishing when and where a photograph was taken and what it can honestly be said to show.
Think Lab
Spot the Missing Context
Practice identifying the specific missing piece that makes a statistic or a quotation uninterpretable.
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How Algorithms Shape What You See
What ranking and recommendation systems optimize for, and how that changes the meaning of popularity, consensus, and urgency in a feed.
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Seven Questions to Ask Before You Share
A thirty-second checklist that catches most of the content people later regret passing along, without requiring you to become a fact checker.
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Related subject areas
- Media Literacy: How news and media are produced, and what that means for the way you read them.
- Digital Literacy: How platforms, feeds, and search results decide what reaches you in the first place.
- Critical Thinking: Separating what is observed, what is inferred, what is assumed, and how confident to be.
- AI Literacy: What changes, and what does not, when content is produced or altered by AI systems.
- Information resilience: calibrating confidence and updating on new evidence.
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