A lecture for a BINS youth exchange, March 2020

  1. How do we REALLY communicate in 2020

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2. Fake news

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Exaples:

Twitter, Facebook, Karlovački list,

 

Pope Francis:

 

Barack Obama:

 

Tools for deconstructing:

 


Add-ons and plugins:

Light shot – For making screenshots     

 RevEye Search – For “right click” reverse image search integrated into shell    

InVID Verification- For bacic verification of videos and images     

 


Web tools

Forensically – Clone detection, ELA, noice detection, EXIF, GPS…

FotoForensics – ELA, metadata, GPS

Ghiro – All in 1, great tool, but hard to setup

WolframAlpha – Weather conditions, math, chemistry, unit conversion

SunCalc – Moving of the sun, shadows, sunrise, sundown

ImageVerification – Similar to inVid, but web based


Tasks

Photo 1 – Movie projection

 

Find model of the camera that made this photo.

*Bonus assignement: Where is the event happening and i what is going to be played on screen in the next minutes.

 

 

Photo 2 – Bus ride

 

 

The assignement is to discover the location of the bus.

 

 

Photo 3 – The Airplane selfie

 

 

Check authenticity.

 

 

 

Photo 4 – UFO

 

 

Confirm that this is a manipulation.
Are there any cloned elements here?

 

 

 

 

Photo 5 – Even one is too much

 

Explain forensic data.

 

 

 

 

 


For practice and homework (if you want to)

Photo A – Antivirus i compromising a source

https://twitter.com/simplenomad/status/275697128288960513

You got a tip that journalist inserted a photo directly from his phone to a website. Where is John McAfee?

Photo A

 

Photo C – railway crossing

 

Your newsroom got a tip that in Rumenački put street, a railway crossing malfunctioned while a train was crossing. Use the date from the photography name. Where exactly the photo was taken from?

 

 

 

Fotografija D – Hot atmosphere

 

 

You got a photo and a tip that football hooligans blocked a street last night after Vojvodina – Spartak football game. Do a factcheck.