Okay, so I get asked a lot by students if there's another kind of test or quiz or way to test your
Austin skills.
So I'm putting up another bonus Austin investigation quiz for you in this Austin investigation.
Twitter slash X fact or fiction?
So this morning I came across this post by a Twitter user, verified Twitter user by name.
This little miss can't be wrong.
And the short of it is.
They posted the United States Special Ops forces, recovered bodies, body parts, and at least 100
surviving children from a tunnel system beneath the white House and Capitol Building in Washington,
D.C., on Friday, January 29th.
And it goes on to say in the early mornings as body bags were being delivered, and it shows some photos
that are supposedly related to what was happening.
So your task is to determine if this is a legitimate claim based on the tweet content, what's what?
The user posted, the photos they provided for context and evidence.
Replies, posts and what not.
And if you determine that what they post is legitimate, provide proof of your findings.
If you determine that what they post was false.
Again, provide proof of your findings and write a report for your client.
So essentially what you're what you're how you're going to approach is, is you're being tasked to do
an investigation into this, whether it's a reporter or an investigator or whatnot.
Your task is to find out if this is a legitimate story.
So of course, you're going to need to find proof to back up your findings and then write a report.
Now, this is intended to help your investigation skills.
No direct contact with the pollster for information, no password resets.
You don't need to submit your findings to me.
You don't need to submit your report to me either.
This exercise is intended solely to be used as a practice for you.
And in the next video, I'll show you what my findings were and walk you through how I came to that
conclusion.
Now there are several ways to come to a conclusion.
So I don't want you to think that, you know, if you took a different route than what I took, that
you're wrong.
There's a lot of different ways to tackle an investigation, and chances are people are going to start
in different places.
However, if you gather the correct information, you put everything together, you get your facts straight
and you get your report together.
Then that's great.
Um, you know, you didn't you didn't do anything wrong.
As long as you stay within the confines of law, of course.
So essentially, just have fun.
I hope you enjoy this.
This is the Twitter link to the story.
You also could look up that user on Twitter slash X.
And I'm also going to try to archive this on the Internet Archive in case the post does disappear.
So again, enjoy yourself, have fun, get out there and do your investigation, and I'll see you in
the next video with how I, what I found and my conclusion and how I got there.
Thanks for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.