Deepfakes & Misinformation Literacy

A practical defense course against synthetic media: detection heuristics, verification tools, and what to do when your organization is targeted. Learners practice on real examples of AI-generated deception.

What this course covers

The course runs across 4 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Spotting the Glitches: Deepfake Detection Heuristics — Learn how to visually and auditorily analyze media for common AI artifacts, sensory anomalies, and physical inconsistencies through real-world examples.
Digital Forensic Toolkit: Verification Tools — A practical guide to using reverse image search, metadata viewers, and specialized detection software to verify suspicious media.
Assessing Organizational Exposure and Risks — Examine how synthetic media targets corporate brands, executives, and communications, and identify your organization's key vulnerabilities.
Crisis Protocol: Incident Response for Synthetic Media — Navigate a simulated deepfake attack on your organization, practicing critical decision-making, containment strategies, and communication protocols.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

All employees, leaders. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 60 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the AI Ethics, Policy & Society track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including branching scenario, guided lab exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

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Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 60 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code ETH-DFM.