Verification Guide

With this verification guide, you’ll have everything you need to fact-check photos and videos from social media. Check out the FRANCE 24 Observers team’s best tips for investigating the posts you see online.

Basic tricks to avoid internet hoaxes

How to verify a photo online and fight the spread of misinformation

How can I use my smartphone to verify photos?

How do I verify an online video?

How to detect deepfakes and graphic manipulations

Why the way an image is cropped can change everything

How to investigate a Twitter account or suspicious tweets

Your guide to geolocating photos and videos posted online

Dig deeper with these advanced verification tools