Google Images Can Help You Spot Fake News
It is easy to connect to the Internet and find information about almost anything, but it is also easy to find unreliable and completely incorrect information. Google Images can help detect fake news written around an image .
As CNET points out, there are some pretty obvious guidelines for weeding out a lot of fake news, but Google Images makes it easy to see where the image came from. Just take a screenshot, drag it to Google Images and find the original source. You will most likely see sources that have already discovered that the image is incorrect or simply tampered with. For example, CNET’s Laura Hautala says she used this on a Susan B. Anthony photo that recently went viral. It turns out it wasn’t Susan B. Anthony. (If you search by image, you can find the original source here on the front page of the 1910 Daily Mirror.)
Of course, Google Images will just show you other places the photo is on the Internet, so you need to read those sources and find the original to see what the actual source says about the photo. However, it is a good place to start and a fairly simple piece of advice to follow.
For general news, you can use a browser extension like BS Detector to point out questionable sources. For more tips, navigate to CNET’s full posting below.