Executive Summary. An ‘Executive Summary’ should clearly outline your report’s
key findings. The reader might not have the time to fully read your report and may
only look at the executive summary, containing the final conclusions. It is important
that the executive summary clearly detail your conclusions and where to find
supporting information. When you are writing the executive summary, it is
important to remember that reading this section should be enough to fully
understand the conclusions of the verification.
7 Challenges and Pitfalls
7.1 Things to Keep in Mind
The verification process has various challenges and pitfalls, which could delay or hinder the
verification process. These should be kept in mind when you are trying to verify content.
Sometimes there is no content online or in the media. An example of this is a recent
project which dealt with the Al-Razeen Prison in the United Arab Emirates. The DVC
was given the task of identifying content online that may show evidence of torture.
Although the DVC searched widely online, it was unable to identify any content on
the matter. As no content could be found, the DVC moved away from the project. In
some cases, it may be beneficial to give eyewitnesses time to upload their content
after an event. This may require you to wait a few days. Where feasible, developing
local contents may be hugely beneficial. Of course, this should be done responsibly,
and ideally in partnership with respected human rights organisations.
Geolocation is time-consuming. The geolocation of content is generally one of the
most time-consuming and complex steps in the verification process. Finding
indicators can be difficult and geolocating is sometimes not possible. If you have been
searching for a location and indicators for a considerable amount of time and have
not made any progress, you should consider moving on to the next step of
verification and classifying the location as “undetermined”. Another solution could
be to seek out a second pair of eyes to assist you or to come back to it later.
Content in other languages. You may come across content or uploader accounts in a
different language to the one(s) you speak. This can hinder your research into certain
user accounts or content. If you verify content in a team, and one of the members is
familiar with that language, an easy solution is to task that member with verifying
that specific piece of content. If no team member has experience with the specific
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