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New ways to check images and sources online

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An example of how you can use About this image to learn more information about an image of a delightfully crooked house. Image credit: “The crooked house in Sopot” by Topory, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

This GIF shows an example of how About this image, a new feature that helps people learn more about an image online, works. It shows a crooked house image that looks like it might not be real, but using the About this image feature a user is able to find sources online that help them understand it is a real house.   Image credit: “The crooked house in Sopot” by Topory, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

An example of an image search you can do on the beta Fact Check Explorer. The context search highlights how the image has been associated with different locations over time, across the web.

This GIF shows an example of how users can use Fact Check Explorer, a tool that helps them find more information about a fact check query or, in this case, an image that they see online. This example uses an image of a shark that looks to be on a freeway. But using Fact Check Explorer you can see that it is not real.