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How to Fact Check Images

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A short lesson on using Google images to investigate the reality behind photographs that appear online. It presents three ways to reverse image search.

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do they say a picture is worth a thousand words but when you're searching for an image online how do you know that every one of those words is true we're going to show you a simple trick you can do it with Google and it's called a reverse image search okay so there are a couple of different way you can do this the first one is to go to images. Google.com and you can go over there you this this looks like a normal Google search page but we have the Google Images icon and you'll see the little camera search by image icon right here that's the key and now one of the first ways of one of your first of the few options will show you today to do this isn't Dragon drop so let's say you have an image saved on your desktop here it is I'm just going to drag it right over here into search bar will upload the file and I get a whole list of hits where that image is in the in the page and so I can go and investigate all these different sources where the image shows up the second options you can do is to click a little search by image icon and you can paste a URL in there and let's say I found a URL where this this image I want to search is and I can taste it in there and search once again I will get big list of hits of different sites where this image shows up let's talk about a third way that is even a little bit easier to do and this is probably the simplest way and one that I highly recommend only if you're Chrome though I'm let's say you're on a web page and you find an image and you want to know more about that image you can right-click or control click on the image and then scroll down here to search Google for image and automatically a new tab will open up in your Chrome browser giving you the same results so the last stuff you want to do in the most important one is probably to ask some critical questions about the results that you just found you want to ask questions like on what kinds of websites does this image show up are there any clues about where the image originated has the image been altered in any way any place that you've seen it and that's just the tip of the iceberg for more information about asking critical questions with a reverse image search or just about fact-checking in general head on over to commonsense.org education

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