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Deceptive Imagery
Evaluating Video Sources
Evaluating Charts & Graphs
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words ... Or Is It?
Visual Journalism
Media Representation
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4 Free Tools To Analyze Fake Digital Photos
Gecko & Fly, updated January 2022
TinEye
Reverse search for images: Enter an image and find out where else it appears online
Evaluating Video Sources
Seeing Isn't Believing - The Fact Checker's Guide to Manipulated Video
From The Washington Post
Evaluating Charts & Graphs
The
complete lesson
is available from TED-Ex.
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words ... Or Is It?
You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die
Overview from The Guardian, 12 Nov. 2017
Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo
Scientific American, 2 Jun. 2008
Fauxtography
Fact-checking fake viral images, from Snopes.com
Google Images Can Help You Spot Fake News
Lifehacker.com, 22 Nov. 2016
A Quick Guide to Spotting Graphics That Lie
Tricks that make charts and graphs misleading. National Geographic, 19 Jun. 2015
76 Viral Images from 2015 That Were Totally Fake
Gizmodo.com, 14 Dec. 2015
Use of generic photos can be dangerous for illustrating news stories
Poynter.com, 7 Feb. 2013
Visual Journalism
When the Designer Shows Up in the Design
ProPublica, 4 April 2017
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