Learn how to be your own video investigator with The Washington Post’s Fact Checker team
these days, with few tools on how to determine what’s real versus fake. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker team put together a guide to teach you how to be your own video investigator.To start, learn about the different ways video can be manipulated.Definition: The post lacks or misstates the context in which events occurred. Or, the content of an unaltered video could be false or misleading.
Tip: See if the video is being posted by multiple verified news outlets. Check the description of what happens on screen against reliable sources.Tip: Watch for large gaps in time, unexplained transitions or an abrupt edit in the video.Definition: Part or all of the video has been manipulated to transform the footage itself.
Tip: Look for notable signs like blurriness in the foreground or background, pixelation, changes in color, or slower or quicker movements that don’t match normal human behavior. Listen for edited audio, including cutoff speech, sound that’s warped or modulated and speech that sounds slower or faster.Videos are often shared, and go viral, on social media without proper credit to the original source or person who filmed the footage.
This is an important step because it allows you to further analyze the content and source of the video. If you’re watching the original video you can determine whether your video in question has been taken out of context, edited or transformed. You can also move on to next steps like confirming where and when the video was filmed.Run a clear and identifiable screenshot of the video through reverse image search tools like Google and Bing to find other instances of the video posted online.
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