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How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

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Reid, Alastair. Think 'sheep' before you share to avoid getting tricked by online misinformation. FirstDraft. December 9, 2019
Good online information? Or misinformation!? Check the Source, History, Evidence, Emotion, Pictures

First Draft. Verification: All Resources (a list of resources dealing with photo manipulation, reverse image searches, visual verification clues- and more)

Sites to Help You Evaluate News Sources

AllSides.com “Unlike regular news services, AllSides exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant.” More about AllSides’ bias ratings (You can decide if you agree with their bias ratings!)

AP FACTCHECK including Not Real News: A Look at What Didn't Happen This Week.

Caulfield, Mike (2017, April 4) How "News Literacy" Gets Web Misinformation Wrong. Provides some examples on how to think through the process of fact-checking.

Caulfield, Mike. (2019, June 19). SIFT: Evaluate information in a digital world

Codart, Charlotte. (2019, June 21). The Most Comprehensive TweetDeck Research Guide In Existence (Probably). Bellingcat. (Learn how to use TweetDeck to research on-going events).

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Fact Checking, Verification

Fact-Checking Research. American Press Institute

The International Fact Checking Network IFCN) The Poynter Institute

Journalist’s Resource. Tip Sheets Some tips sheets

Media Bias Fact Check [ See methodology used to decide on bias for the news sites analyzed on this site: Are there any problems with the criteria? Are there additional questions you might ask about the sites that are rated?]

On the Media Presents Breaking News Consumers Handbook. See this excellent site on breaking news, fake news, health news, Islamophobia, migration, poverty in America, etc. (Scroll down for the handbook)

Politico. Is It True? A Fake News Database. Put in a link and let Politico help evaluate if the site is "information" or "disinformation."

Politifact Fact-checking politics

Reilley, Mike. (2019, March 25). Fact-checking resources. Journalist's Toolbox.

Rosenstiel, T. (2013, October 22). Six questions that will tell you what media to trust. American Press Institute.

Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors: Snopes.com's updated guide to the internet's clickbaiting, news-faking, social media exploiting dark side. 2016.

Verification Handbook Designed for journalists and aid responders, this recent edition (2020) provides step-by-step guidelines for using user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies. Includes case studies on verification fundamentals, verifying images, verification tools, etc. Read online or download for free in various file formats. Also available for purchase.

Zimdars, Melissa.

Dr. Zimdars, a professor of Communication at Merrimack College put up a list of sites that she considers problematic. Does she display a liberal bias? You can decide if that means she is incorrect in her assessments of news sources. See Zimdars, M. (2016, November 18). .My ‘fake news list’ went viral. But made-up stories are only part of the problem. The Washington Post.

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        Disinformation is everywhere. Here’s how to sort real news from fake news.

        5 ways to spot disinformation in your social media feed

        There’s a lot that’s been written about disinformation and misinformation recently — the dark new reality of our increasingly connected and technologically advanced world that makes trusting what you see harder than ever. They’re both forms of actual “fake news,” a term that once meant fake stories but has been co-opted by some right-wing leaders and activists to describe media organizations that they don’t like.

        Much disinformation (intentionally misleading) and misinformation (unintentionally misleading) is spread via social media, so how do you spot these fake stories when they appear in your Facebook feed, Twitter timeline or YouTube playlist?

        The best piece of advice to follow is to pause before you retweet or share, particularly if you have an emotional reaction and immediately think, “Oh, I must share this.” If you’d like to take a deeper dive into best verification practices, First Draft News, a non-profit that helps journalists and others navigate the increasingly complicated digital sphere, has an hour-long class to help you become a debugging pro. Below, we have a quick guide for determining whether or not you are looking at a piece of mis/disinformation.

        Remember that the creators of disinformation purposely make content that is designed to trigger an emotional response, so if you find yourself having those reactions, please pause and consider the following questions.

        If you use these questions and do some simple digging before sharing, you too can help prevent disinformation fires on social media, here’s how:

        There are many more sophisticated fact-checking tools that are available online for free. Bellingcat, a non-profit that carries out online visual investigations outlines many of them here.

        However, the truth is that the vast majority of disinformation can be dismissed without using any of this technology. In many cases, by just asking the question, “Is this real?” and taking a couple of minutes to investigate, you will be able to verify or debunk the story.The problem is that in a social media age, many of us instinctively hit that share button, before we even think to ask that question.

        We saw how disinformation was used in the 2016 election, and more recently in the U.K. election, so it’s likely to be used even more extensively in 2020.

        The social media platforms have taken steps to stem the flow of disinformation but ultimately the only way to stop it spreading is for consumers to stop sharing it.

        So maybe before you hit that share button, next time just stop and think, Is this real?

        WHEN Kerri Sackville started chatting to a hot venture capitalist on a dating site, she couldn’t believer her luck. Until she dug a little deeper.

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        THE other day, I was chatting to an extremely handsome man on a dating site.

        He told me that he lived in a suburb nearby, and that he was a venture capitalist. But his grammar was pretty poor for a venture capitalist, and his answers were improbably brief, and I’ve been dating long enough for alarms bells to start ringing.

        And so I did a Google Reverse Image search on his picture. And I found him, the handsome venture capitalist … in Getty Stock Images. Yes, the person I was chatting to was a liar. (If indeed it was a person. It could have been a savant chipmunk for all I know.)

        Now, this is not my first time chatting online to a stock image. I have caught people (chipmunks?) out using them before. And the phenomenon, catfishing, fascinates me. Why do people use fake photos to chat to others on the internet?

        Catfishing on local dating sites is not an effective way to find love. After all, what happens if a face-to-face date is actually made? I turn up, looking for my handsome venture capitalist and a pimply 20-year-old turns up in his Maccas uniform saying, “Hi, babe, it’s me.” Where do we go from there?

        Presumably, in many cases, it is about money. Catfishers use fake profiles to lure vulnerable women into falling in love and transferring cash to them, ostensibly to facilitate a meeting.

        But Getty Man didn’t want money from me, and neither did the other guys who used fake photos, nor did those who contacted several other women I spoke to. It seems that these men are online purely for the thrill of interacting with people using a disguise.

        My guess is that many of these local scammers are socially insecure and have had little success with women in face-to-face contact. Fake pictures and dating sites offer them a chance to interact with females they find attractive, who may never talk to them in real life.

        And I imagine the scammers are excited by the deception of it, and excited to be fooling people. They remind me a lot of myself as a teen when I used to make prank phone calls. It was such a thrill! How far could I get before they’d figure out I wasn’t who I said I was?

        Still, as harmless as many of these dating catfishers are, it is a colossal waste of time to be chatting to them. And online dating is hard enough as it is without worrying that you are chatting to a chipmunk using a Getty Image.

        HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOURSELF FROM DATING FRAUDS?

        Well, Google Image Search is your friend. This is a tool that allows you to feed an image into your search engine, and be shown where on the internet that image is found. If it is only found on your dating site, chances are you are pretty safe. If the image turns up on a model or celebrity website, or on any other website unrelated to the person’s field, be suspicious.

        I’m not recommending you launch a full-on Google investigation into each potential date, but it’s never a bad idea to verify that the cute Australian police officer you are chatting to is actually a police officer and not, say, a model in an American ad for cola.

        At the very least, check out the pictures of people who are improbably good looking, or whose photos look perfectly staged. And be realistic. A middle-aged woman is unlikely to be approached by a stunning 30-year-old brain surgeon; a 60-year-old man is unlikely to be approached by a busty 18-year-old.

        I mean, it’s possible — online, everything is possible — but it’s sensible to exercise a bit of care.

        And if the person’s words do not match their profile, be alert. Getty Man’s grammar was very poor, and while not every 46-year-old venture capitalist has good grammar, something was definitely off.

        Most of all, listen to your gut. If you have your doubts, ask questions. Ask for surnames, workplace details, or a spontaneous selfie. Remember, it’s OK to be cautious in the online world. Keep an open heart, keep an open mind, but always protect yourself.

        And please, if any of you know the whereabouts of that dude in the photo, let me know. Real Getty Man, if you’re single and available, call me, please. I’m interested!

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        You can find fake Nike shoes in stores all around the world. A counterfeiting ring smuggled thousands of counterfeit Nike Air Jordan sneakers into New York and New Jersey! Five people are each expected to receive 20 years in prison for trafficking copy Air Jordans.

        How can you tell if Jordans are fake?

        Today we have two pairs of the Air Jordan 1 and we will have a good look at the small details that tell the big story of counterfeit Nikes. We will study the real Air Jordan shoe purchased directly from Nike and the counterfeit shoe imported from South China. You will learn how to tell if a Nike shoe is real or fake. The secret to making a real sneaker legit check is…quality shoemaking.

        The price is right?

        When shopping for real Nike shoes you should expect to pay real Nike prices. If you find a rare Air Jordan or a unique color at a price that is too good to be true… then it IS too good to be true. Low prices and beat up boxes are your first clue that you have a fake, counterfeit, or illegally smuggled-in B-grade Nike shoe.

        Make any mail-order or E-Bay purchases with trusted retailers. Remember, slightly used does not mean the shoes were real Nikes to start with.

        Air Jordan wings logo:

        Studying the real Air Jordan and the fake Air Jordan side-by-side, you can see the factory making copies did a nice job on the logo. The artwork on the fake shoe is correct, but the real Jordan 1 logo is still embossed a little deeper into the leather. In this case, it’s hard to tell the difference until you look at the pattern of the cut parts. The real Nike does not have any stitching guides to help the stitchers locate the panels during assembly. The red logo panel of the fake Nike is loaded with these little assembly guides. These assembly guides are not a sign of poor shoemaking and are very common, just not on the real Air Jordan.

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        The Jordan 1 heel strap stitching:

        The Air Jordan 1 has a tiny heel tab that covers the back seams of the quarter panel and the Swoosh. You can see the back tab on the real (grey) Nike has two stitch lines as the quarter top lines cross over. Also, the black thread contrasts with the grey leather. On the fake Jordan 1, a single stitch line crosses the tab and they used black thread on black leather. The stitching on the fake matches the leather instead of contrasting it with the leather. Again this detail is not an indication of low-quality shoemaking, it is just not how the original was made.

        You can also see the centering guides on the red leather parts of the fake Jordan 1. The original Jordan does not show any assembly guides.

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        How to Spot Fake Air Jordans

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        The Jordan 1 outsole logo:

        If you look closely at the Nike logo on the outsole you can see the fake artwork is wrong. The width of the letters is too narrow. Another obvious mistake is that the “K” of the fake Nike logo is not touching the tail of the Swoosh. Additionally, when you look closely at the tread patterns you can see the fake (red) tread has glossy spaces between the tread features where the grey does not.

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        The Jordan 1 tongue logo:

        Next, get a good look at the woven label attached to the tongue top. The fake Jordan is missing the registered trademark circle “R”. I know it’s strange, but Nike likes to have the circle “R” twice on the woven label. On the backside of the woven logo label (below), you will see the trademark information in English and French. The fake has the wrong lettering style and the tag is stitched on crooked. Crooked parts are a sure sign of poor shoemaking.

        The Jumpman size tag

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        Inside the shoe, you will see the size label with the Jordan Jumpman logo (above). The fake shoe has the tag welded to the back of the tongue. On the real Jordan 1, the tag is sewn down on the inside.

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        The Jordan 1 tongue lace keeper:

        The lace keeper is a small point but a dead giveaway when looking for fakes. The real Nike shoe has simple cuts in the tongue fabric to act as the lace keeper. This construction looks pretty low rent for a $120 basketball shoe, but this is how the original was made. The counterfeit Nike has a small piece of fabric added as the lace keeper.

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        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        How to Spot Fake Air Jordans

        Don’t get ripped off!
        Learn how to Authenticate Air Jordans before you buy.
        The complete guide to sneaker authentication and inspection.
        Learn how to spot counterfeits and run a professional sneaker inspection.

        Start with sneaker authentication basics, then advance to professional footwear inspection techniques.

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        There are many reasons why you may need to find out who is in a photo and run a reverse image search. Sometimes, you need to check if the person who just sent you a friend request on Facebook or LinkedIn is the real person or if that person is using a fake profile photo. Alternatively, maybe you are trying to check out the person who invited you on a date and want to be sure that it’s not some crazy person.

        In sourcing, a rev e rse image search can be quite handy when you are trying to find more information about someone. For example, when you are trying to find an email address for someone, and it’s not mentioned on one social profile, it could be on another website. Because many people use the same profile photo on various social sites, a reverse image search is a handy trick to find other social media profiles.

        Performing a reverse image search is quite easy. Go to images.google.com, click on the camera icon, upload the image or insert the URL for a photo, and hit search. If you are using the Chrome browser, you can right-click on a picture and then click “Search Google for an image,” and you’ll see your results in a new tab.

        It’s quite simple, but Google Image Search is not the only option. There are many other tools you can try, such as image searching via Bing, Yandex, TinEye, and others.

        I had the same question, so I ran a test to find which one gave me the best results. I ran various tests on Google, Bing, Yandex, and TinEye to test a few theories.

        To find out which search engine is the best, I created two quite similar tests. For the smaller analysis, I randomly selected four celebrities on Twitter and two people I follow on Twitter who haven’t updated the profile pictures for some time. I also added five random people from LinkedIn, four random profile from Facebook, and I also added my profile photo. I tested all those profiles photos via all the online reverse image search engines I found.

        And I also performed a test with a much larger number of profile photos, but the results were quite similar to the first test. The only difference was that Yandex was slightly better than others.

        As you can see Google, Yandex, and TinEye will get you the most results.

        Other search engines will help you to find the source of photos on Reddit, such as Karma Decay, and photos or artwork on various other sites.

        You can also use SocialMapper, which can identify or recognize any person through a photograph and search and follow-up on social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, VKontakte, and a few other sites. SocialMapper also collects all the information published by the user. It’s quite an interesting tool.

        If you have lots of data and you need to perform some analysis, you can try Amazon Rekognition, which can perform an analysis of either an image or a video. This tool is more than enough to identify objects, text, activities, people, and scenes in your data.

        You can also use an application called PimEyes, which is an online face search engine that goes through the Internet to find pictures containing given faces. This application uses face recognition search technologies to perform a reverse image search. However, there are several concerns about this application and how it’s used.

        The AI in these tools is getting better every year and imagine what kind of data a company like Facebook already has about our faces and how useful its algorithms are.

        In 2014, Forbes published an article called stating, “Facebook researchers are currently developing algorithms called “DeepFace” to detect whether two faces in unfamiliar photos are of the same person with 97.25% accuracy, regardless of lighting conditions or angles.”

        Bing has also introduced a visual search tool that will have a great future. Imagine seeing a photo of a lamp that you would like to purchase, but when you run the image search, you find the same picture but not the lamp itself. That’s why Bing added Visual Search, which lets you search for specific objects within images. You can isolate a particular person or object in the picture, and Bing will find it for you.

        More tools like Visual Search will continue to hit the internet because that type of search is excellent, especially when you connect it with shopping. You could find the product you saw and immediately buy it with one more click. There is also a site called This Person Does Not Exist that uses AI to generate endless fake faces.

        New technology is wonderful and brings lots of positive aspects into our lives and work, but it also brings negative ones, such as fake news. For example, the OpenAI research group recently announced a new AI writer that can create fake writers. OpenAI decided not to release the technology behind the project publicly because it could be used for the wrong reasons.

        Image maps aren’t as popular today as they once were. In the past, they were very common, and used to create navigation menus on lots of popular websites. While they are rarely used for this purpose any longer, image maps are still a valuable way to display complex sets of links. Take for instance this clickable map of state budget information.

        Should You Use Image Maps?

        Image maps can still be useful for the right application, as you can see in the example linked to above. However, in today’s mobile-first environment you should do two things to make sure your website is accessible to mobile device users:

        • Create a fallback for your image map. This can be as simple as creating a table or list of the links contained in the image map, and placing them directly below the image map. Take another look at the clickable state map we linked to above. Notice the table of links below the map. This table creates a fallback for users who can’t see or use the map.
        • Make the image map responsive so that it changes size based on the size of the device being used to view the map.

        Thankfully, there is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin, created by Matt Stow, which makes image maps responsive. Or if your website is powered by WordPress, there’s a free WordPress plugin you can use which is based on Matt’s jQuery plugin.

        Image Maps Explained

        The basic idea behind an image map is that you combine two different components:

        • A map of defined linked areas
        • An image

        The map is overlaid on the image, and the clickable areas coincide with portions of the image. In HTML the image and the clickable areas are coded separately. However, from the visitor’s perspective, it appears that portions of the image itself are linked to different destination.

        HTML Elements Used to Create Image Maps

        There are three HTML elements used to create image maps:

          : specifies the location of the image to be included in the map. : is used to create the map of clickable areas. : is used within the map element to define the clickable areas.

        It’s easiest to understand how all of this works by looking at an example.

        Creating a Simple Image Map

        Here’s our image: How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)What we’re going to do is link the screen of the phone to Facebook and the Scrabble letters to the Wikipedia article on social media.

        Step 1: Determine the size of our image

        Our image is 1000 pixels wide by 664 pixels tall. However, in this example, we’re going to use HTML to cause the image to display half that size: 500 by 332 pixels. When you create an image map it’s important to remember that if you change the size of the image you will also have to change the area coordinates. This is because the area coordinates are tied to the original size and scale of the image. In order to render our image in the size we’ve selected we’ll use this code:

        Step 2: Create a map to overlay the image

        The map code is quite simple. It looks like this:

        What’s missing at this point are the clickable areas. Those will need to be defined between the opening and closing map tags. It’s important to assign a name to the map. In this case we’ve used name=”map_example” as the name of the map. This name is what is used to overlay the map on the image. Take another look up at the image code in Step 1. Notice the usemap attributed followed by the name of the map. This is how the map is tied to the image.

        Step 3: Define the coordinates for the map shapes

        We need to create two shapes to overlay over the image: a polygon shape over the screen of the phone, and a second polygon that approximately covers the Scrabble letters. The clickable shapes we’re going to define will look something like this.

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        Using an application like Microsoft Paint with the rulers visible, we can see that the four corners of the phone screen fall at the following pixel coordinates:

        • Top left: 30 by 100 pixels
        • Top right: 140 by 50 pixels
        • Bottom right: 290 by 220 pixels
        • Bottom left: 180 by 280 pixels

        We can create that shape, or area , in an HTML map by using the following code:

        Using the same process described above, we can also create the shape over the letters by using the following code:

        Notice that since the shape over the Scrabble images has five corners there are five sets of dimensions in the code.

        Step 4: Put it all together

        We can combine the image, map, and shapes into a single block of code that looks like this:

        And here’s how that code actually renders:

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        Learn More About Image Maps

        This tutorial covers enough to get you started with image maps. However, there’s a lot more to learn. For example, in addition to poly , you can also use rect and circle to define shapes. Learn more about using image maps by visiting the map documentation page.

        Server-Side Image Maps

        The method for creating images maps that we’ve covered in this tutorial is a pure HTML solution. However, image maps can also be created with some server-side activity. Here’s how this all works:

        • An image map file is created and stored on the web server. The map file can be either in map format (.map), CGI, or PHP.
        • The mapped image is displayed in a browser and linked to the map file.
        • When a visitor clicks on a portion of the image, the clicked coordinates are sent to the server.
        • The server processes the coordinates based on the instructions contained within the map file, identifies the appropriate hyperlink, and sends the visitor to the linked destination.

        The ismap image attribute is used to identify an image as part of a server-side image map, and the img tag is wrapped in an anchor element which points toward the map file. Here’s what the HTML portion of the code for a server-side image map looks like:

        The ismap method was common in the past, but if you’re going to create image maps today, it is recommended that you use the usemap attribute and the method described in detail in this tutorial.

        Creating the Map File

        The map file itself can be in one of three formats: map, PHP, or CGI. The simplest format is the map format. If we were to use a map file to store the coordinates we used in our previous example we would type the following code into a text file:

        How to spot fake stock photos (and attribute the right person)

        It’s among the first things you hear as a blogger: Use photos.

        People are receptive to images. Pictures also help break up lengthy blocks of text.

        But if you’re new to blogging and just jump over to Google images, you could quickly find yourself in hot water.

        If you choose to go the free route (and who wouldn’t?!), it can be difficult to discern the photos free for use and the ones that require attribution.

        So before you snag an image off the web, educate yourself.

        (Note: We recently updated this post. Click here to view the new version.)

        Rule #1: You can’t use everything you find on the web.

        Grabbing that perfect image for your next blog post may seem harmless, especially if you’ve seen it used all over the web, but it can hurt you in a big way.

        Risking your business for a photo is silly. So, it’s best to get it right the first time. That leads us to …

        Rule #2: Understand the basics of copyright law.

        Here’s a brief overview:

        Creative commons. This is a way for photographers to license their image and delineate how they will be used by the public. The most common CC licenses you’ll stumble across are a CC0 or a CC BY 2.0. If something is CC0, it means the owner has relinquished the rights to their work, while a CC BY 2.0 requires attribution. If an image is licensed under CC, make sure you’re extra diligent in determining when you need to attribute credit to the photographer. Learn more about the licenses here.

        Rule #3: Know your options.

        Because there are many. With that in mind, here are some of my favorite sites when I’m looking for images that are up for grabs. Take a look, and let us know in the comments which ones are your go-to.

          – Here, you’ll find all sorts of public domain pictures and photos, free to use for your purposes. – All the pictures here are a CC0 license, meaning you can copy and use them for free. – This is a database of royalty-free stock photos. Just click on the free photo tab, and you’re in business. – This site gives you countless beautiful photographs that are all stock images, available for both your personal or commercial endeavors. – These are vintage pictures from public archives, free from known copyright restrictions. – Are you a food blogger? This will be your heaven! Find a whole archive of food images that you may use without attribution (but, you cannot resell.) – Just click on the tab for free stock photos or go through their beautiful weekly images. – Another stock photo site, where you can find free high-resolution photos without copyright restrictions. – Looking for even more free, high quality stock photos? The creator of this site lets you download and use all of their personal shots for free. They also have a free video archive! – Even more free stock photos, for all of your commercial and personal needs.

        *Bonus: One of my other favorite sites for images is Canva. Sign up for free, and quickly discover how to create your own designs, templates, and edit photos. It’s an easy way to craft personal social media graphics with images, filters, shapes and fonts already on the site. While the majority of it is free, a few layouts and images do have a small price ($1!) . I highly recommend it if you’re looking to start designing or editing images yourself.

        The bottom line: Don’t get lazy.

        Using pictures and images can be a valuable tool while you’re writing.

        B e sure to determine where the picture came from, what licensing it falls under, and whether you need to attribute credit to the artist who captured the beauty in the first place.

        If you’re unsure, do some more digging or find an image that you know is up for grabs.

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