According to the tips for verifying information found in the web by digital Journalist and journalism trainers Mandy Jenkins, a social news editor for the Huffington post and Craig Silverman, the editorial director of open file.ca and author of Regret the Error stated these tips for verifying information found on the web in their presentation. "B.S Detection for journalist", at the fall 2011 online News Association Conference in Boston, due to the fact that CNN, BBC and other news outlets ran stories in their sites describing a study that internet explorer users are not as smart as people who used other browsers. Major media organisation's fell for the hoax by a frustrated computer programmer who created a fake websites and when it was revealed as a hoax, they had to admit that they hadn't properly checked their facts.
These tips for verifying information found on the web was advice by Jenkins and Silverman in their presentation because they felt it was an embarrassment and an instance of mis-informing the public, could have been avoided. These tips are:
1. Start with Who is, lookup on the domain to see who has registered the URL.
2. Check the internet archive to get a feel for the overall history of the site, organization or person reporting the information.
3. Check the site's Google page rank, if the page rank is high, that probably means credible sites have been linking to it.
4. Is there a clear and credible owner of the site? Check the Site footer. Does it point to a real ownership entity?
5. Run blog and news searches to see if the person, topic or company has been talked about before.
6. Are people sharing it on social bookmarking site like DIGG?
7. Make some phone calls and try to get the source of the information on the phone before you publish anything.
8. Check name, do they have a personality history? Is the name drawn from history or literature? Hoaxers often like to be clever by giving themselves historical names.
9. Do the number's add up? In the case of the fake internet explorer story, the study supposedly questioned more than 100,000 users, a scale tgat would be very difficult to pull off.
    Silverman added that when news organisations fi decide to report something that isn't 100 percent confirmed,they should make it very clear that, " this is what we know, this is what we don't know, this hasn't been confirmed" and also " it is important to be brave and transparent about what you don't have" seen by the author Jennifer Dorroh in international journalist's Network (IJNET) on the 17th if November 2011 of verifying information on the web.

* A journalist guide to verifying news tips on Twitter, seen on the internet, According to these digital journalist Mandy Jenkins a social news editor for the Huffington post and Craig Silverman an editorial director of open file.ca and the author of Regret the error, shared their advice during their presentation of " B.S Detection for journalist" at the recent 2011Online News Association Conference in Boston.
They say, when information appears on social media, it's tempting for News Organisation to race to report it first, in order for them to resist that impulse, you will have a more complete story and one you won't later regret and they have listed the following tips for verifying information on social media and they are:
Step 1: Check the person's credibility:-- On Twitter, check when the account was created. Be suspicious of brand-new accounts.-- How frequent are the updates? Is this a regularly used account?-- Do they have a photo? If they haven't bothered to add one to the account, that might be a sign that it'sa fake.-- Do they have friends or followers? Do they follow others? Do they have any random followers, - namely watch out for "random, porn spam bots?"-- Are there interactions between this account and others? No interaction may be the sign of a fake account.-- Check the account'sKloutscore to assess the level of interaction.-- Google the Twitter account's name,or handle, along with "spam," "scam,""spammer" etc. to see if others have complained about this account.-- See if you can find other accounts online with the info you have. Search the username or useIdentifyin a Firefox browser, orHoverMein Chrome.
Step 2: Follow up on the tip-- Ask for a phone number and call the person.-- Ask if they witnessed what they reported first-hand, or if not, how they heard about it.-- Ask what they witnessed, how they saw it and when-- Ask who else may have the same information
Step 3: Check the credibility of the info-- Check earlier tweets or updates. Did they mention something about why they were on the scene? Is there anything leading up to their news tip that makes sense or puts things in context? Do they indicate plans, location, etc.?-- Do any follow up tweets or updatesmake sense in context?-- Does it read authentically? Misspellings, bad grammar, typos can also be a sign of a real person.-- If there is an image attached, checkto see if it has geolocation data orexif. Read more about verifying imageshere.
Step 4: Corroborate the story-- Check the scanner or police sources to verify-- Back it up on a Twitter search to see if other social accounts are reporting the same thing-- Use the "Andy Carvinmethod:" Ask followers to help verify the information.
Step 5: Evaluate your options. Ask yourself:-- How urgent is this information?-- How important is the tip to the overall story? Is there a story without it?-- Is it worth the risk if it is wrong?

* A Journalist's guide to verifying images by the author Jennifer Dorroh on September 30th 2011. She stated on international journalist's Network (IJNET) that the digital journalist Mandy Jenkins and Craig Silverman, who are perfecting the art if online verification.
Jenkins, a social news editor for the Huffington Post, and Silverman, an editorial director of OpenFile.ca and author of Regret the Error, shared their advice during their presentation, "B.S. Detection for Journalists," at the recent 2011 Online News Association Conference in Boston. They said breaking news sometimes brings out people who want to fool the public with doctored images, so every journalist should know how to verify the authenticity of photos and videos and they listed the following as the tips for verifying images found on the web and they are:
1.See what info is attached to the image in anexif (exchangeable image file format) viewer, such asthis one.
2.Check for edits to photos. UseImage Level Analyzer, which uses photo quality to determine whether a photo has been altered. (Images saved as jpeg files lose quality each time they are saved. If someone has pasted part of one photo into another, different parts of the image will have different levels of quality.)
3.Reference the image's supposed location against maps and existing images from the area. Examine weather reports and shadows to confirm that the conditions shown fitwith the claimed date and time.
4.Check clothes, building, languages, license plates, vehicles, signs and other elements of the photo or video to see if they support what the image claims to be.
5.Review the uploader's history and location to see if he or she has shared credible content in the past ormay be "scraping" content from others.
6.Are there images the shooter took before and after the one you are trying to verifty that you can use as a comparison?
7.Get the shooter on the phone or Skype to talk about the image. People are less likely to lie to you when talking to you directly.
8.Beware of the amazing shot in a breaking situation. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
9.UseTinEye, a reverse image search engine, which “finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version,” according to the site.

All these tips of verifying information found on the web, tips for verifying information found on social media and tips for verifying images found on the web balls down to the same thing we have on the handouts issued out to the class by Mrs Idowu, an Online Journalism Lecturer in the department of Mass Communication, Lagos State Polytechnic, in order for young journalist who are coming up with the creation if their oeb websites to know how to manage a websites and also the tips for verifying information, news and images on the web.