Pointer Fact Check Webinar 2/21

This webinar was very informative and had many different facts that I didn’t know about. Yes, you can use the basic “Google search” and for the most part, it’s fine for the common consumer. But, if you are a journalist and want the truth, you will dig deeper. The meta data is useful (not always though, especially for debunking), checking pictures put on page (i.e. if it says abc news, but it’s not even the right logo) because people can put whatever they want on their website with photoshop and other applications. Advanced investigators slow down videos to check if those are real. TweetDeck and TreeVerse are also a useful source. Using Google Earth to check location is also very good, approx. every 5 years they update their photos. Map checking is a very cool tool, it estimates about how many people can fit in a specific area.