speaker Kathy

1. SOCIAL MEDIA
CONTENT VERIFICATION
Verifying Photos

2. OVERVIEW
Verifying Photos - Approaches and Tools
Verification - the Fundamentals
Visual Manipulation

3. VISUAL MANIPULATION

4. VISUALS AS EVIDENCE : “I’LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT”

5. VISUALS AS DRIVERS OF EMOTION AND ENGAGEMENT
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6. RECYCLING: Wrong Time - Wrong Place
DIGITAL ALTERATION: removal, addition,
combination of elements using softwares
STAGING: Reproduction with actors
3 COMMON TYPES OF MANIPULATIONS

7. RECYCLING ( Wrong Time and Wrong Place)

8. RECYCLING ( Wrong Time and Wrong Place)

9. DIGITAL ALTERATION: DIGITAL MODIFICATION

10. STAGING: REPRODUCTION WITH ACTORS

11. VERIFICATION - THE FUNDAMENTALS

12. ALWAYS ASK YOURSELF ...
Provenance: Are you looking at an original visual?
Who: Who captured this visual?
When: When was the visual captured?
Where: Where is the visual from?
Why: What does the visual say/confirm?

13. VERIFICATION - STRATEGIES AND TOOLS

14. THE STRATEGIES
Critical Eyes- Check for clues that contradict the
facts or show edits
Reverse Image Search - Check the photo against
search engine databases
TinEye – Where the image come from, find the
higher resolution version

15. Critical Eye- Check for clues that contradict the facts or show edits
clothing style, weather, signaletic etc.

16. Reverse Image Search - Check photo against search engine databases
date, location or context different
CAUTIONS
Absence of
result does
NOT prove
anything

17. VERIFICATION - THE TOOLS

18. https://images.google.com/

19. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tineye-reverse-image-
sear/haebnnbpedcbhciplfhjjkbafijpncjl?hl=en

20. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkfree.searchbyimage