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1. Verifeye Media wants to bring ethics back into eyewitness news

“If the content can be proved to be real, it has a value,” he said, “and it doesn’t matter if it was a professional journalist that shot it or somebody’s mum that stuck their head out the window. It really doesn’t matter.”

2. The Age of Disinformation (featuring a flooding debunk)

Back to my point… many professional meteorologists feel like we are fighting a losing battle when it comes to national media and social media hype and disinformation. They will be sure to let you know that weather events they are reporting on are “unprecedented”, there are “millions and millions in the path”, it is caused by a “monster storm”, and “the worst is yet to come” since these events are becoming more “frequent”. You will never hear about the low tornado count in recent years, the lack of major hurricane landfalls on U.S. coasts over the past 10 years, or the low number of wildfires this year.

3. Debunks Galore: The paracetamol challenge, Tinder causing STDs and human trafficking at Hobby Lobby

So, rather than take down each and every undeservedly viral story that crosses our monitors each week, we’re rounding them all up in a quick, once-a-week Friday debunk of fake photos, misleading headlines and bad studies that you probably shouldn’t share over the weekend. Ready? Here’s what was fake on the Internet this week.

4. Rumor-detection software detects, corrects erroneous claims on Twitter

The researchers’ key insight is that before social media users decide whether to believe a piece of information is true, many will ask for more information or express skepticism. So they designed their software to listen in on Twitter traffic for signs that users are “questioning the truth value of information.” Words and phrases the program has an ear for include “unconfirmed,” “Is this true?” and “Really?”

5. How to Find Historical Imagery of Russia’s Faked Satellite Photos

In Bellingcat’s latest report, Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, we exposed how Russia had falsely claimed satellite imagery from June 2014 was from July 14th and July 17th. As with nearly all of Bellingcat’s work we used open source information, satellite imagery from Google Earth, to expose the fake images. It’s possible for anyone to find this imagery with a few easy steps.

6. From the Archive: King Abdullah vs. ISIS? Not so fast.

Twitter is, well, all atwitter as photos of Jordan’s King Abdullah preparing for combat go viral on social media. But the actual context behind the photos tell a very different story.

7. Real Photo of the Week: Rocks in the sky — a geological mystery

It’s real! More examples (and the full explanation…) here.