AMST 100: Social Media and Society

In Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes, Data & Society Affiliates Britt Paris and Joan Donovan trace decades of audiovisual (AV) manipulation to demonstrate how evolving technologies aid consolidations of power in society.

How Reuters is training reporters to spot ‘deepfakes’

How To Spot A Deepfake Like The Barack Obama–Jordan Peele Video

We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video

Tool to help journalists spot doctored images is unveiled by Jigsaw

How to think about deepfakes and emerging manipulation technologies from the Verification Handbook

Filtering by Time and Place to Find the Original

The hidden signs that can reveal a fake photo

Six easy ways to tell if that viral story is a hoax

Tracking the Source of Viral Photos

Using Google Reverse Image Search

Verification 101: Storyful’s advice for checking out material from social media, and putting it into practice

Verify from The Social Media Reporter

Photo tampering throughout history

Verifying and questioning images from the Verification Handbook For Disinformation And Media Manipulation

20 Questions for Interrogating Sociam Media Images

Verifying Images from the Verification Handbook

Verifying Video from the Verification Handbook

Fact Check Information in Google Images

Submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

Check when a video was uploaded

Examine information about photos (EXIF data or metadata) with a link or upload

Check for EXIF data and image manipulation

Can be used to check weather on certain dates in various locations

Chrome Extension for examining video frames

Chrome extension for video

Chrome extension for reverse image searching

Verification tools for news organizations

Choose the camera icon to reverse image search

Photo forensics tools

Digital image forensics tool

Digital image forensics tool