How to check a video for reliability

Video content is becoming more and more, the number of fake or manipulated videos that can be used for misinformation is increasing. In this instructions, we will tell you how to check the video content for reliability.

As in the case of Checking the photo, your main assistants are logic and attentiveness. A significant part of fake plots is created using a real video placed in a false context. First of all, analyze whether the description of the video is logical, whether the weather, clothes, and the speech of people in the frame in that context in which the video is presented. For example, the poster video claims that he was shot in Myanmar. It is worth checking if there are details on the video that confirm this.

Professional fake manufacturers often Use The design of authoritative media to mislead the audience. Each time it is worth checking if there is such a plot on the official website and in the official accounts of this media in social networks.

And only after such an analysis, we recommend that you contact the tools that help confirm or refute your hypothesis about the reliability of the video content.

Analysis of metadata using YouTube Data Viewer

YouTube Data Viewer - This is the tool developed by Amnesty International, which allows you to analyze the metadata video on YouTube. This tool is useful for determining the original video download date and identify cases when the video was re -uploaded or changed.

How to use:

1. Getting metadata: Go to YouTube Data Viewer And insert the URL video from YouTube. The tool will extract metadata, including the date and time of downloading video.
2. Checking matches: Use the extracted data to search for coincidences with other YouTube videos. This can help you determine whether the video was repeatedly downloaded or changed in any way.

Restrictions

• The search engine only works with Google.
• Personnel are selected automatically, and may not be actually key. Invid Verification Tool is better for breaking the video into frames and searching in other search engines.

YTLARGE

YTLARGE Copies the name and part of the YouTube Data Viewer functions from Amnesty, but appeals to a number of additional options (and also supports the Russian interface).

What can you find out:

1. Analysis of potential income from the video. This tool can help evaluate the financial interest of the channel that published the video.
2. Analysis of the channel data, video downloading frequencies, metathegs. This will help you make an idea of ​​the channel, its content and, possibly, the owner.
3. Getting a picture of a high resolution profile. It can also help in identifying the owner of the channel.

Restrictions

• The search engine also works only with Google and the frames are selected automatically.
• It may not work with ADBLOCK.

Invid Verification Tool

Invid Verification Tool - This is an extension for the browser, designed with the participation of factor to check the reliability of video content. This tool is especially useful for journalists, researchers and everyone who works with the video, since it allows you to analyze videos for falsifications and manipulations.

How to use:

1. Installation: First, set the Invid Verification Tool for your browser (available for Chrome and Firefox).
2. Separation of videos into frames: Open the video you want to check and use the Invid function to divide the video into key personnel. This allows you to analyze each frame separately, which is especially useful for identifying manipulations, such as adding or removing objects. The tool works both in the video on Facebook and YouTube, and with local files.
3. Reverse search: Use the reverse search function to check whether shots from the video were used earlier in other contexts. This will help you determine whether the video content was copied or changed.
4. Invid also allows you to analyze the photo and conduct a deep search in X (formerly Twitter), look for ready -made facts and use customized search.

Restrictions

• Some functions are available only to factor and journalists after registering and checking the data, but there are not so many these functions, and any user can conduct the basic video check.