unit 3.5

Verification: Tools

Tools

Tools for Verifying Images

Google reverse image search (how Bellingcat do it)

 

FotoForensics provides budding researchers and professional investigators access to cutting-edge tools for digital photo forensics

 

Exifdata

 

Exiftool

 

MetaData2Go

 

Forensically (picture verification)

 

Tin Eye Image Verification

Tools for Verifying sources

 

TweetBeaver assists in verifying a particular user by looking at the relationship between users, a user’s timeline or specific account data

 

Botchecker for Twitter

 

Tools for Verifying Video

YouTube Data Viewer tool shows users the upload time of a video after they copy and paste the link into the search bar. With this website, users can also view thumbnails and a link to reverse image search the thumbnails.

 

Tools for Verifying Content/News

Chrome Extension

 

First Draft Information Verification

 

Meedan (verify breaking news online):

 

WHO website “Myth buster” section for common fake news around an issue