Casework
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each case, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
Each case is worked live, in the room, with whatever the week's lecture just handed you. Bring what's asked for in "before the session" — most weeks that's a device, occasionally it's a piece of content you already suspect.
Case 01 — Scene of the crime
The first casework session — establishing the difference between a hunch and evidence, before you're given any tools to tell them apart
22 February 2027
Case 02 — Your first SIFT
Running the four SIFT moves on a real, currently-circulating claim, in order, without skipping ahead
1 March 2027
Case 03 — The text workup
Applying independent textual checks to the same passage, and reconciling it when they disagree
8 March 2027
Case 04 — The image workup
Running a reverse image search and an automated detector on the same image, and taking their disagreement seriously
15 March 2027
Case 05 — The video workup
Working out which of this week's checks you can actually apply to a short clip, and which you can't
22 March 2027
Case 06 — Watermark hunting
Embedding a watermark, then trying to destroy it through nothing more hostile than ordinary handling
29 March 2027
Case 07 — The full workup
Combining independent methods from weeks 3 to 7 into one report on a mixed-media case, with a confidence level the evidence actually earns
5 April 2027
Case 08 — Breaking a detector
Trying to make your own content evade a detector, and taking your success or failure seriously as evidence
12 April 2027
Case 09 — The office file
Reviewing a sample workplace document for workslop indicators without assuming bad faith on the part of whoever wrote it
19 April 2027
Case 10 — Drafting a policy
Writing one clause of a synthetic-media disclosure policy that handles a case the real-world example didn't
26 April 2027
Case 11 — Cross-examination
Arguing both sides of a real provenance dispute before you're allowed to reach a verdict
3 May 2027
Case 12 — The Slop Report
Final case presentations, and the submission of a full independent investigation
10 May 2027