Tools for journalists

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Many online tools facilitate investigative journalism, content analysis, and visualization. Below, you'll find a list of helpful resources from the Factchequeado repository, as well as recommendations from Bellingcat and Duke University.

Tool	What is it for?	Link
Monitoring, Trends, and Social Media
Google Trends	It shows what topics the local Latino community is looking for. Compare searches in Spanish vs. English by region.	https://trends.google.com/
Social Searcher	Search for mentions of a topic or keyword on multiple social platforms simultaneously.	https://www.social-searcher.com/
The Information Laundromat	Enter a URL or a piece of text to detect republished or similar articles in search engines and in the GDELT database. Useful for tracking misinformation spreading in Latino communities.	https://informationlaundromat.com/
Facebook Ad Library	See what political and social ads are targeting your community. Full transparency of advertising on Meta.	https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/
Google Alerts	Receive automatic email notifications when new mentions of specific topics appear on the web.	https://www.google.com/alerts
YouTube Geofind	Find YouTube videos posted from a specific geographic location.	https://mattw.io/youtube-geofind/
Who Posted What?	Advanced search on Facebook by date and place. Key: Facebook dominates among 30+-year-old Latinos in Kansas.	https://www.whopostedwhat.com/
Instagram Location Search	Find geotagged content in cities like Dodge City, Liberal, or Garden City.	https://github.com/bellingcat/instagram-location-search
Twitter Advanced Search	Filter tweets by keywords, date, and place. Useful in English and Spanish.	https://twitter.com/search-advanced
Tweet Binder	It has a free option with limits. Analyze hashtags, keywords, and accounts: post volume, interactions (likes, retweets, mentions), and basic performance metrics.	https://www.tweetbinder.com/blog/es/herramientas-gratuitas-investigacion-hashtags/
There is an AI for That	Website with a search engine for artificial intelligence tools.	https://theresanaiforthat.com/
Image/Video Verification and Fact-Checking
RevEye	RevEye Reverse Image Search (or Reversee) is an iOS app that makes it easy to reverse-image-search using search engines such as Google Images, Bing, and Yandex. It has a browser extension and a free and paid version.	https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reveye-reverse-image-sear/keaaclcjhehbbapnphnmpiklalfhelgf
InVID / WeVerify	A plugin to verify the authenticity of videos and images. Indispensable to combat visual misinformation in Latino communities.	https://www.invid-project.eu/tools-and-services/invid-verification-plugin/
TinEye	Look for the first appearance of an image on the internet to find out if it has already been used in another context.	https://tineye.com/
Search by Image	A browser extension for reverse image search on multiple search engines simultaneously.	https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-by-image/cnojnbdhbhnkbcieeekonklommdnndci
ExifTool	Extract hidden metadata from photos: date, place, device. It's useful when you receive photographic evidence.	https://exiftool.org/
Forensically	Detect edits and manipulations in images using visual forensics tools.	https://29a.ch/photo-forensics/
AI-generated content detection
Hive Moderation	Detects whether AI generated an image, video, or text. High accuracy for deepfakes and synthetic photos.	https://hivemoderation.com/ai-generated-content-detection
Illuminarty	Detect AI use in images and videos.	https://illuminarty.ai/en/
Synthid	Analyze images through Google Gemini chat by placing the image and @synthid in the text	https://gemini.google.com/
AI tools for journalistic workflow
Perplexity AI	An AI search engine that cites your sources. Ideal for quickly finding verified information during a coverage.	https://www.perplexity.ai/
ChatGPT	Useful for edits, script suggestions, social media carousels, and drafts in Spanish and English.	https://chat.openai.com/
Claude (Anthropic)	Excellent AI assistant for analyzing documents, writing in Spanish, summarizing interviews, and organizing investigations.	https://claude.ai/
NotebookLM	Google's tool for uploading documents and asking questions about them. Perfect for summarizing long interviews or analyzing reports.	https://notebooklm.google.com/
Pinpoint (Google)	Basic transcriptions in Spanish and English and keyword analysis on large volumes of documents. Access for journalists.	https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/about
Creating infographics and exploring tools
v0 (Vercel)	Create interactive components and infographics with AI just by describing what you want. Without knowing how to code.	https://v0.dev/
There's an AI For That	A directory of AI tools organized by category and by task. Useful for discovering solutions to specific problems.	https://theresanaiforthat.com/
Archive and documentation
Wayback Machine	It allows you to archive web pages and identify if the URL has already been archived and how many times. Essential when deleting statements or pages from a company.	https://web.archive.org/
Archive.today	Archive web pages instantly. Faster than Wayback Machine for Spanish or JS-heavy sites.	https://archive.today/
Hunchly	Automatically record everything you research online. Create documentation habits from the start. It's paid. It has a 30-day trial.	https://www.hunch.ly/
Zotero	Organize sources, articles, and documents. Free, easy to use, and very practical for everyday use.	https://www.zotero.org/
Data and visualization
Datawrapper	Create interactive maps and charts without knowing how to code. Ideal for stories about demographics or voting in Kansas.	https://www.datawrapper.de/
RAWGraphs	Advanced data visualizations from spreadsheets. No programming.	https://app.rawgraphs.io/
Flourish	Create interactive charts and maps without programming. Free.	https://flourish.studio/
Security
Link Checker	It allows you to scan a URL that you want to visit to detect if it contains viruses or phishing attacks.	https://nordvpn.com/link-checker/
Virus total	It allows you to scan documents on your computer and web pages to identify whether they contain viruses before opening them.	https://www.virustotal.com/
Browser virtual	It opens a virtual browser that allows you to browse web pages without compromising your computer.	https://browser.lol/