With the Stars 4Media EXPLORE phase coming to a close, it’s time for us to look back on the study conducted over the past 4 months by France Télévision and Faktisk, who I am coaching on this project.
What is this project? VISE – The verified image search engine. A web-based solution to help fact-checkers as well as other professionals involved in image verification to search for images and videos in order to see whether a fact-checking professional has already verified the image.
Why? Over the course of this study, FTV and Faktisk have identified two major pain points for fact-checking professionals: image/video verification takes a lot of time and images verified as “authentic” are rarely indicated as such, as publication of fact checks tends to favor debunking articles.
The idea? Input an image/video or link, find out whether it has already been fact checked and if so, access the fact check rating card to see all relevant information. Fact checkers can then run a quick double-check rather than having to verify the image from scratch.
Who is it for? Fact checkers, but also journalists, NGOs, OSINT communities… and one day even the general public!
Find out more below and download the executive summary here.
Read about this project on France TV Lab website (in French) here.
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