WEBVTT 00:00.890 --> 00:08.390 Okay, so I get asked a lot by students if there's another kind of test or quiz or way to test your 00:08.390 --> 00:09.650 Austin skills. 00:09.650 --> 00:17.510 So I'm putting up another bonus Austin investigation quiz for you in this Austin investigation. 00:17.510 --> 00:19.940 Twitter slash X fact or fiction? 00:21.170 --> 00:28.340 So this morning I came across this post by a Twitter user, verified Twitter user by name. 00:28.340 --> 00:30.530 This little miss can't be wrong. 00:31.760 --> 00:33.680 And the short of it is. 00:34.060 --> 00:40.240 They posted the United States Special Ops forces, recovered bodies, body parts, and at least 100 00:40.240 --> 00:44.290 surviving children from a tunnel system beneath the white House and Capitol Building in Washington, 00:44.290 --> 00:47.560 D.C., on Friday, January 29th. 00:48.490 --> 00:54.160 And it goes on to say in the early mornings as body bags were being delivered, and it shows some photos 00:54.160 --> 00:58.210 that are supposedly related to what was happening. 00:59.170 --> 01:07.900 So your task is to determine if this is a legitimate claim based on the tweet content, what's what? 01:07.900 --> 01:12.670 The user posted, the photos they provided for context and evidence. 01:13.310 --> 01:16.280 Replies, posts and what not. 01:16.280 --> 01:22.970 And if you determine that what they post is legitimate, provide proof of your findings. 01:23.760 --> 01:26.550 If you determine that what they post was false. 01:26.550 --> 01:31.410 Again, provide proof of your findings and write a report for your client. 01:31.410 --> 01:38.730 So essentially what you're what you're how you're going to approach is, is you're being tasked to do 01:38.730 --> 01:44.910 an investigation into this, whether it's a reporter or an investigator or whatnot. 01:44.910 --> 01:48.720 Your task is to find out if this is a legitimate story. 01:48.720 --> 01:54.990 So of course, you're going to need to find proof to back up your findings and then write a report. 01:56.180 --> 02:00.260 Now, this is intended to help your investigation skills. 02:01.050 --> 02:05.700 No direct contact with the pollster for information, no password resets. 02:05.700 --> 02:07.890 You don't need to submit your findings to me. 02:07.890 --> 02:10.380 You don't need to submit your report to me either. 02:10.410 --> 02:15.090 This exercise is intended solely to be used as a practice for you. 02:16.120 --> 02:23.860 And in the next video, I'll show you what my findings were and walk you through how I came to that 02:23.860 --> 02:24.820 conclusion. 02:25.500 --> 02:28.260 Now there are several ways to come to a conclusion. 02:28.380 --> 02:35.130 So I don't want you to think that, you know, if you took a different route than what I took, that 02:35.130 --> 02:36.060 you're wrong. 02:36.990 --> 02:43.260 There's a lot of different ways to tackle an investigation, and chances are people are going to start 02:43.260 --> 02:44.760 in different places. 02:44.790 --> 02:52.290 However, if you gather the correct information, you put everything together, you get your facts straight 02:52.290 --> 02:54.180 and you get your report together. 02:55.170 --> 02:57.390 Then that's great. 02:58.020 --> 03:01.500 Um, you know, you didn't you didn't do anything wrong. 03:01.500 --> 03:04.890 As long as you stay within the confines of law, of course. 03:05.820 --> 03:09.270 So essentially, just have fun. 03:09.270 --> 03:11.010 I hope you enjoy this. 03:11.010 --> 03:15.090 This is the Twitter link to the story. 03:15.090 --> 03:18.960 You also could look up that user on Twitter slash X. 03:19.780 --> 03:25.810 And I'm also going to try to archive this on the Internet Archive in case the post does disappear. 03:25.810 --> 03:32.770 So again, enjoy yourself, have fun, get out there and do your investigation, and I'll see you in 03:32.770 --> 03:38.380 the next video with how I, what I found and my conclusion and how I got there. 03:38.380 --> 03:39.430 Thanks for watching. 03:39.430 --> 03:40.510 I'll see you in the next video.