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As artificial intelligence generates increasingly convincing fake imagery, Reuters employs specialized journalists to authenticate photos and videos from social media. The process involves tracing original sources, analysing metadata, and cross-referencing with satellite data and weather reports.
The European Commission is deploying fact-checkers to monitor TikTok and Meta for misinformation following mass border crossings into Spanish enclave Ceuta, as social media played a key role in spreading false information about border security.
Google has suspended its new artificial intelligence image-creation tool in Google Earth following widespread concern from disinformation experts and fact-checkers who warned the feature could be weaponised to generate believable fake satellite imagery.