Videos on YouTube are only showing the upload date, but not the exact time of upload. This can be important to find the original uploader of a video, and also helps to avoid confusion and incorrect claims about the upload date. The most prominent example for this was the false claim by Russian authorities that…
GeoGuessr is an website that uses Google Street View to make users guess at what location they are. It’s a fun way to sharpen your geo-locating skills, which are highly useful in confirming the location of user-generated content. Below are three different challenges. Each challenge consists of five different locations that players have to identify…
Editor’s note: As of December 2019, neither of the below referenced YouTube video links map to content as the “YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.” This case study was originally published in Verification Hanbdook: A definitive guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage During the violent clashes in Cairo in August 2013…
By Richard Cozzens. This post was originally published on the WITNESS Blog The quantity of citizen video emerging from the Syrian conflict, combined with the lack of professional journalists on the ground, has resulted in a massive amount of citizen media for researchers and journalists to sort through and analyze. In cases of videos that depict…