France 24 News has a daily segment on how videos and photos are manipulated to spread lies:
Each segment takes a trending image or video and breaks down exactly how it’s been manipulated. For images, you can do a reverse image search to track down the original picture. Often, two or more images are composited together to create a new, completely misleading image.
It’s harder to reverse engineer videos, but there are often clues in the video itself (logos, date stamps, signs in the background, etc) that can point you to the original source of the video. Here are some additional tips:
They also have an entire website dedicated to how you can ferret out fake videos and photos.
A favorite tactic of manipulators is to show a real image or video of something that happened in the past, and add text or audio that has nothing to do with the original context. Here’s yet another favorite anti-vaxx hoax:
The France 24 channel is likely one of the international channels offered by your cable or streaming service for an additional fee. However, France 24 News is aired daily on many local PBS stations.
France 24 is showing US media how to actively combat propaganda and lies. It begins with showing viewers exactly how media they see or hear can be manipulated to intentionally deceive them. Since the whole idea of truth itself is under widespread attack here, It’s time for our media — tv, print, digital, social — to do this as well.