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Today's News: Fact or Fiction: Evaluating Images and Videos

Test Yourself

Image Evaluation

Your first step to see if an image is fake can be a Google search, for example [cnn lightened skin tone photo], which finds this Associated Press article and also a Snopes post.

Google Web Search

You can also search for the image using one of these reverse-search tools:

Video Evaluation

Deepfakes / Shallowfakes

This Video May Not Be Real (New York Times)

Select the above image, or follow this link, to watch the video.

From Films on Demand, 2019.

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