How to do fact checking on photos and videos?

How to do fact checking on photos and videos?

Social media is very important in today's life. It is the platform where you can easily communicate with your friends and family at a minimal cost. People also post their personal photos and videos to make a moment memorable. But sometimes some people have some evil intentions, which can destroy anyone’s life. The smartphones and the internet are so easily available that anyone can misuse it. Some contents are so eyed catchy that it does not take a minute to get viral. As a fact we have seen what happened in Baduria,2017 which almost created a communal riot. We have to take a few steps to stop those bad pictures from sharing.

Right now Facebook is also working on those steps to prevent those abusive content from sharing. They are coming up with a machine learning model which easily ban those contents with the help of different signals and user feedback. The organization has also involved some third party to check the authenticity of pictures. It will examine metadata, timing and the place where it was captured. They will also verify them with the help of different research analysts, educational and government agencies.

Optical Character Recognition

Facebook is coming up with a new technology named OCR. It will extract each and every portion of the image and video. It will examine them to know the origin and timing of it. The application is made in such a way that it will provide all the history of the pictures and if it is video it will also check the voice modulation.it is used as a fact checker.

Facebook has already divided the fact checkers into three categories

These types of contents are fabricated and manipulated

The contents are false, does not have any relation with the reality

This is an original content but published in a very bad way to understand

Facebook and all other social media platforms have already started to take steps against this evil intention. S we should support them in order to stop it-

o Firstly, if you notice any kind of photos and videos regarding any bad issue, then examine all the facts and stop sharing them or share it in such a way to create awareness among the masses.

o When elections are around, just be very careful before sharing any facts related to any kind of political views. All the ad agencies should inspect the source before publishing any political party adds.

oThe privacy should be the number one priority. If anyone is trying to impose an evil post on your account, then just block the account or report it.

o If you are sharing any controversial posts then you should mention the source on your social media platforms

Facebook and any other social media platform are on a mission to examine the facts of any posts and if it is fake then they just prohibit them. We should start helping them with doing such works. We should justify all the facts before sharing and if it has any kind of evil intention then we should stop sharing them and create awareness among the masses.

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