Fact- Check That Viral Image in Two Clicks. Major news events like Hurricane Harvey produce thousands of photos, and thousands more tweets and Facebook posts of fake, outdated or out- of- context photos. This time the big winner is a photoshop of a shark on the freeway, which pops up during every major hurricane. Before you join the 6. In Chrome, right- click the image, then click “Search Google for Image.” And boom, you see if there’s a source or ten blog posts debunking it. Buzz. Feed reporter Jane Lytvynenko breaks it down into baby steps: And here’s the slightly longer process on mobile: It’s a pain, but if you don’t do this, you’ll have to admit you’re more interested in attention than you are in the truth. And when all your followers see you fall for a hoax, they’ll unfollow you for being a dummy.

But you’re not a dummy and you’re not attention- starved, so you’ll fact- check before you retweet, and no fake image will ever go viral again! Watch Temple (2017) Online Free. Meanwhile, follow the Washington Post’s running list of Hurricane Harvey hoaxes, or Buzz. Feed’s list of the same.

Update Aug 3. 0, 9: 3. AM: Lytvynenko pointed us to a simple mobile interface for Google Reverse Image Search (via Clayton Cubitt). To look up an image, just save it to your camera roll, then go to that page to look it up. On i. OS, that’s just a 1.

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