"How to verify images online"

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Shayan Sardarizadeh
Mar 9 • 17 tweets • 11 min read
THREAD: How to verify images online?

Social media is awash with false or misleading images, some of which get millions of engagements.

So, here's a simple guide on ways you can quickly check the veracity of an image you see on your social media feeds.

Reverse image search is the most fundamental part of content verification - the process of searching to find if, and when, an image has appeared on the internet before, and in what context.

Google Lens, Yandex, TinEye and Bing are among the free tools that allow you to do this.

Lens is Google's excellent tool for checking online content.

Here's a tweet by US conspiracy theorist Stew Peters claiming this cloud was seen in Turkey just before the recent earthquake.

On Chrome, simply right-click on the image and select "search image with Google".

Google Lens will bring up a range of relevant results.

If you click on the first link, you will see a Guardian report clarifying this was a lenticular cloud spotted in Bursa, Turkey, on 19 January - almost three weeks before the earthquake.

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THREAD: How to verify images online?

Social media is awash with false or misleading images, some of which get millions of engagements.

So, here's a simple guide on ways you can quickly check the veracity of an image you see on your social media feeds.

Reverse image search is the most fundamental part of content verification - the process of searching to find if, and when, an image has appeared on the internet before, and in what context.

Google Lens, Yandex, TinEye and Bing are among the free tools that allow you to do this.

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[LoisB]

1. Very interesting. Thank you.

[Duppers]

2. Thank you! Bookmarking this.

[NorCalBlue]

3. Wow, this is a great tutorial!

Thank you, smarty pants!

[Aussie105]

4. Educational!

And that Russian lady who would love to be your bride? Honest! For real!

Reverse look-up her picture, it is in many places!

[sl8]

5. K&R. nt

[brer cat]

6. Thanks, pants.

Very informative.

[The Mouth]

7. Thanks

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. You need to start with a high level of skepticism

for everything you see on line.

I recall having a lengthy argument with my son some years ago about some kind of rocket car that supposedly crashed somewhere near Phoenix. He'd seen a lengthy thing about it on line that convinced him it was true, and I kept on trying to get him to understand that if it had really happened, it would not be an obscure and unknown incident. I think I finally got through to him.

But I'm old, and so I grew up doing research the old way, looking at actual documents, finding things in published books or magazines.

I'm constantly frustrated by a good friend my age (74) who is far too inclined to believe what he sees on line. Again, start with skepticism and you won't go wrong. And you will NOT get sucked into something stupid.