Investigations & Digital Trust · Internship Role
DEEPFAKE VERIFICATION ANALYST
Verify suspicious images, video and voice by combining forensic tools, context checks and provenance standards to decide what's real.
SKILLS YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
Image forensicsVideo keyframe analysisAudio deepfake cuesContent provenance (C2PA)Verification reporting
PROOF-OF-WORK TASKS8 TASKS
Start at Beginner and work up. Every task produces something real you can show: a report, a tool, a guide or a demo. Publish it on LinkedIn or GitHub as your proof of work.
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Beginner
LEVEL 01
- 01Take the Detect Fakes challenge, record your score, and write which visual cues fooled you and which ones helped.
- 02Make a 'Deepfake Red Flags' guide covering faces, hands, lighting, lip-sync and audio, with annotated examples.
- 03Use reverse image search and keyframe extraction on 3 viral videos to find their original source.
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Intermediate
LEVEL 02
- 01Analyse 10 images (some real, some AI-generated) with Forensically and metadata tools. Report your verdict and confidence for each, then reveal the answers.
- 02Research voice-cloning scams in India: collect 5 reported cases and design a family or office 'voice verification' protocol.
- 03Check C2PA content credentials on images from different sources, and explain what provenance can and cannot prove.
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Advanced
LEVEL 03
- 01Write a standard operating procedure for verifying a suspicious video sent to a newsroom or company: triage, tools, escalation, and a report template.
- 02Build and evaluate a simple deepfake image classifier on a public dataset, with an honest limitations section on why detectors fail in the wild.
HAND-PICKED FREE RESOURCES7 RESOURCES
FREE TOOL
InVID-WeVerify Verification Plugin
Free browser plugin used by newsrooms to verify videos and images.
VISIT RESOURCE
FREE TOOL
Forensically
Free in-browser image forensics: clone detection, ELA, metadata.
VISIT RESOURCE
FREE TOOL
FotoForensics
Error level analysis and metadata, with excellent tutorials.
VISIT RESOURCE
FREE TOOL
Detect Fakes (Northwestern)
Test how well you can spot AI-generated media.
VISIT RESOURCE
ARTICLE GUIDE
Content Authenticity Initiative
How content credentials prove where media came from.
VISIT RESOURCE
ARTICLE GUIDE
C2PA
The open standard behind content provenance.
VISIT RESOURCE
ARTICLE GUIDE
WITNESS: Deepfakes
Practical guidance from a human-rights video organisation.
VISIT RESOURCE
