How To Fact-Check? Reverse Image Search To Geolocation — Basic Skills & Tools That Can Help You

The WEF recently identified mis/disinformation as one of the leading global threats in the future, so learning how to identify false information is an essential skill for anyone. Reverse image search If you think an image is suspicious, a reverse image search will tell you if it’s been posted online before and tell you where and when it was posted. Reverse Image Search tools: Google Reverse Image Search/Google Lens Google Lens can be accessed from Google.com on a desktop computer using the camera icon on the right side of the search bar. Some people will create fake accounts that look like real people and use AI-generated profile pictures that look convincingly realistic, but it’s often possible to tell that they’re not real. Generative Adversarial Network image generators, like Dall-E and Midjourney, can produce more complex and realistic images, but there are still often giveaways that a GAN-generated image isn’t real.