Images, videos and audio clips frequently go viral on social media purporting to show something that later turns out to be false. They might be real images but with the wrong context, they might be digitally manipulated, or they might be entirely generated using artificial intelligence (AI). They often relate to divisive or emotive topics such as elections and conflicts.
The following questions can help investigate whether an image or clip of video or audio is real and shows what it purports to show. However, the answers to these questions might not necessarily resolve a report’s truth or falsehood forever: uncertainty is an inherent part of knowledge and knowledge is improved and revised over time. This article is part of the Commons Library’s good information toolkit, which reviews the strategies and criteria for spotting misinformation and working out what information can be relied upon.
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