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Update December 2022. The outbreak of an armed conflict raises serious concerns about human trafficking inside the affected country; and about human trafficking and migrant smuggling of people fleeing across borders.
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- Watch Again, Looking For Clues
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The first thing to ask yourself is: does this seem plausible? While that might be hard to answer during something as unpredictable as an invasion, there are still things that you can look out for. Does anything in the footage seem obviously out of place? We checked a video on Facebook claiming to show “#Russia #Ukraine #WorldWar3”. But there was so...
Even if you can’t see something as obvious as planes from the wrong era, the video itself is likely to contain a number of other clues that can help you decide whether it’s real. In the above example, we started searching for World War 2 videos, before eventually coming across the original video by an animator on TikTok. Another video we checked cl...
Your next step is to start searching relevant sounding phrases to try and find the original version. You can do this on Google, but it can also help to search places like Twitter and TikTok. If we continue with the above example of the ‘fire started by Russian airstrikes’, that we presume was witnessed by an American, these were the steps we took. ...
Often this kind of searching isn’t enough. Although you can’t reverse video search on Google, like you can to verify where imagescome from, you can do something similar using still images of key parts of the video. We use a free Google extension called the InVID Verification Pluginto do this pretty quickly. Once you’ve added the extension, click ‘K...
Metadata ‘Metadata’ is the information about a digital picture or video that you can’t immediately see from viewing it. When you take a picture using your phone, your phone saves information about it, including where you took it, when, and the make of the phone. This makes up the metadata. Usually, when you upload that picture or video to a social ...
Feb 23, 2022 · A video allegedly showing migrants being shot at by Ukrainian forces has been called a fake. The soldier on whose Facebook account the video first appeared has said his account had been...
Nov 16, 2023 · Ukraine’s military has released footage said to show its troops engaged in fierce fighting to capture Russian positions near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
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Feb 25, 2022 · Social media is flooded with videos that are documenting in real time what is happening as the Russian invasion draws on. Many of the images circulating are real.
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Feb 26, 2022 · Russia's invasion of Ukraine has unleashed a flood of misleading and false material on TikTok. The popular app used by more than 1 billion people has been amplifying videos portraying old...
May 9, 2022 · Drone video shared by Ukraine’s far-right Azov Regiment on March 23 revealed that Russian shelling and a siege had devastated Mariupol’s residential neighborhoods.
