Every day users can come across images on social networks, WhatsApp and on different websites, and many of these can generate doubts: is it rigged? is actual? Was it taken out of context? As well, TechMarkup brings below the appropriate solution to avoid falling into false news seeing photos or videos that perhaps are old.
The app of Google Photos hides endless tricks that allow you to get much more out of the image and video storage platform in the cloud. Many of them are related to the great search system integrated in the app, which allows you to find practically any photo if the proper search is done.
One of the most useful and unknown functions of Google Photos is the possibility of search photos by datein order to find any image or video, however long it has been since it was uploaded.
Two examples in Latin America
On Facebook, a publication from the year 2019 went viral. It is a photo of the late former president of the Peru Alan Garcia Perez inside an airplane. The posting is accompanied by a text that states that it would be “heading for Paris.”
The viral photo was shared on April 19, 2019, two days after the Peruvian Aprista leader died after shooting himself in the head. However, this version was falseas the photograph was not taken on that date. Despite this, the publication has been shared more than 57,000 times since then.
After doing a reverse image search on Google, It was found that the first record of the photo on social networks dates from October 17, 2018. As can be seen, the photo in question was already circulating on the internet six months before García’s suicide.
On the other hand, there is the case in Colombia of a supposed photograph of the meeting of the presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and the Pope Francisco in the Vatican.
It was all about a mounting. The original photo was of a meeting of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin with the Supreme Pontiff. Faced with the discovery of the error, the congressman from the Colombia Human he apologized for it.
“apologies for the photo of Petro with the Pope. I took it from a portal that I assumed to be serious, ”Bolívar wrote on his social network.
So you can search images and videos by date in Google Photos
More than once, false photos are often used to deceive netizens in the form of hoaxes (fake news). It is very common for modified photos or photos containing unofficial information to be spread on the Internet, however, Google images has a 100% safe and reliable method.
Google images It will help the user to corroborate the veracity of an image and this is achieved after searching for the origin of the aforementioned JPG or PNG file. Currently, there are two ways, both do not require additional applications or programs that put at risk the personal data of a computer either laptop.
You have to follow these simple steps to know if a photo is fake or old:
First method:
– Login from a computer or laptop to Google, being able to use any Web navigatoreither Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edgeetc.
– If the image you want to verify the date and its veracity is in Internetpress right click on it and then select the option ‘Search image in Google’.
– Automatically, the user will be taken to a space with all similar images and even to the original (specifying the date). This way it will be possible to know if the photo that has been received has modifications with respect to the one that is 100% real.
Second method:
– Go to the Google search engine and tap on ‘Images’, in the upper right corner. To save time, you can go directly to Google images.
– Tap on the button camera that appears in the search bar.
– Paste the URL of the image or upload the image directly from the computer.
– After a few seconds of waiting, Google will display the results it has found. First of all, it informs about the size of the image and facilitates the search in different dimensions. Tapping on the preview that appears will take you to similar images.
Instead, if you scroll down, they will meet all web pages where the photo appears that has been searched.
When searching for similar images from a PC, Google provides a number of tools to make the search more precise.
If you click the option ‘Tools’ that appears below the search bar, it will be found that the user can filter results by publication date. and in the option ‘similar visual’ I know you can access filters for size, color and even other uses.
External tools to know if a photo was doctored
There are some free tools available online to check if an image has been doctored. In Photoforensics Y Forensically Beta you can upload a photo and there the programs point out different irregularitiesif they existed.
To correctly interpret the results, it is necessary some specific knowledge about image editing, but both sites also offer quick guides generals.
