Most of the stories and posts on social media are accompanied by a visual element to capture the interest of viewers. When it comes to the news on social media, ask yourself whether the content creator has posted an accurate photo, repurposed and old photo, or used a stock photo. Out-of-context and doctored images can fool and mislead. Photos containing signs, graphic t-shirts, and baseball hats are easy to photoshop.
Most reputable sites and news outlets will cite the source of the photo in a caption, making it easy to check.
For tweets and blogs, however, being able to do a reverse-image search is easy and revealing.
Method #1 : Using Google as your browser, right click the image and choose “search Google for image”.
Method #2 : Open a new tab in your browser and go to images.google.com. Then drag the image in question to that tab and drop it in the search bar.
Result:
Google will return search results showing your image – or similar images – and their sources, so that you can determine the original place that the image was posted to the internet.
Other sources for image verification are Tineye and ImgOps.
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