BBC News marks content 'verified' to counter disinformation

Metadata and trail of provenance embedded into images and video

John Leonard
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BBC News marks content as 'verified' to counter disinformation
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BBC News marks content as 'verified' to counter disinformation

BBC News has started marking third-party images and videos on its website as “verified”.

The aim is to counter the growing problem of AI-generated and altered content presented as reality. A verified video or image has its metadata including the author, the date it was taken, locati...

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