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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 04:09 PM Jan 2020

How to use your phone to spot fake images surrounding the U.S.-Iran conflict

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2020/how-to-use-your-phone-to-spot-fake-images-surrounding-the-u-s-iran-conflict/?fbclid=IwAR32s_Nluf12sb9xD7TJNkqCx8CJmI3cY59rVCcusGqNcUvr-_Bu320UTAk

Military conflicts — like the one that is sparking between the United States and Iran — are usually surrounded by false images and outdated videos that go viral on social media. It happened in Turkey the other day.

To avoid that misinformation scenario, the International Fact-Checking Network developed a step-by-step guide to teach citizens how to verify images, from asking simple and rhetorical questions to using reverse image search on cell phones....


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How to use your phone to spot fake images surrounding the U.S.-Iran conflict (Original Post) Skidmore Jan 2020 OP
Thank you! Lisa0825 Jan 2020 #1
Thank you.😊 dewsgirl Jan 2020 #2

Lisa0825

(14,487 posts)
1. Thank you!
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 04:29 PM
Jan 2020

I have long used reverse image search on my laptops, but never could figure out where it was on my phone!

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