Institutions responsible for education around the world must take steps towards media and digital literacy. According to Renee Hobbs, founder of the Media Education Lab at Temple University in the US, these skills — along with…

Often it is difficult or impossible to evaluate validity of witness statements, but there are exceptions.Pay close attention to witness statements: are there actual confirmations to the journalistic claims made, or are they speaking on…

Working with such a fake is much more difficult than with images, considering there is no simplified search method. If you suspect that a video’s authenticity is questionable you can try one of these methods.First of all, if you are…

To create a DeepFake video you need a lot of pictures of the victim, which will be analyzed through GAN algorithms and superimposed on video images. There is also the possibility of placing a text that will be played by the person who…

HyperactivityThere is no way to send few dozen or more tweets everyday (unless there is nothing else to do, so we suggest checking other clues).Quoted by MJ Ahmer Arif, a researcher of the University of Washington who studies every…

Sometimes the source of a photo can be found from the file name. When the name is a long numeric character set, the photo was probably taken from social networks. For example, names of some photos from Facebook contain the ID of the user…

Facebook users very often have a need to find some photo of video files. For instance, how to find images of the Kyiv center during Euromaidan?First of all let’s have a look at Graph Search. This is a quite powerful search engine…

We are going to look among search solutions offered to us by Google. Fortunately, basic search operators spare us from great investigative efforts.1.The «OR» and «–» operators are the most common in everyday use. With these operators,…

This is a more popular type of fake, but also it is easier to dispel. Using the Internet, it is usually possible to establish the credibility of any photo within a matter of seconds. As it turns out, however, most users are incapable of…

This is a more popular type of fake, but also it is easier to dispel. Using the Internet, it is usually possible to establish the credibility of any photo within a matter of seconds. As it turns out, however, most users are incapable of…