“The CAI does not prescribe a unified single platform for authenticity, but instead presents a set of standards that can be used to create and reveal attribution and history for images, documents, time-based media (video, audio) and streaming content. Although the initial implementations will focus on imagery, our intent is to specify a largely uniform method for enabling attribution from various points of view through which diverse stakeholders can build decentralized knowledge graphs about the trustworthiness of media.” (Source: Content Authenticity Initiative)
“We investigate state and corporate violence, human rights violations and environmental destruction all over the world. Our work often involves open-source investigation, the construction of digital and physical models, 3D animations, virtual reality environments and cartographic platforms.
Within these environments we locate and analyse photographs, videos, audio files and testimonies to reconstruct and analyse violent events.” (Source: Forensic Architecture)
“The Four Corners Project is meant to increase the authorship and authority of the photographer and the photograph itself by providing a fixed template to add context to each of the four corners of the image online. By clicking on each of the corners, the interested reader is able to find out more about what is referenced by the photograph.
The platform is free and open source. It is the first major advance in contextualizing the photograph since the caption. It is also the first time that a photographer can immediately inform the reader of their own code of ethics as an image-maker.” (Source: Four Corners Project)
“The provided tools allow you to quickly get contextual information on Facebook and YouTube videos, to perform reverse image search on Google, Baidu or Yandex search engines, to fragment videos from various platforms into keyframes, to enhance and explore keyframes and images through a magnifying lens, to query Twitter more efficiently through time intervals and many other filters, to read video and image metadata, to check the video copyrights, and to apply forensic filters on still images.” (Source: InVID Project)
Bellingcat’s freely available online open source investigation toolkit, which includes satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive web pages, and much more.
REVEAL
by CERTH and Deutsche Welle
“The Media Verification Assistant features a multitude of image tampering detection algorithms plus metadata analysis, GPS Geolocation, EXIF Thumbnail extraction and integration with reverse image search via Google.” (Source: Reveal Image Verification Assistant)
Comprehensive and free guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage with detailed chapters on image and video verification.
“The Visual Investigations team combines traditional reporting with digital sleuthing and the forensic analysis of visual evidence to find truth, hold the powerful to account and deconstruct important news events.” (Source: The New York Times)