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Supposed images of Kiev, taken from a video game

In the following video, missiles are supposed to burst over Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It was posted by an opposition municipal councilor from Bastia and widely relayed. ” It’s the war. The most serious act on our continent since the Second World War, ”he wrote in the epigraph of the sequence, since deleted by Twitter but here archived. These are again images from a video game: War Thunder, released in 2012.

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What reflexes to adopt to avoid sharing false information?

In order not to share false information, nor manipulated photos and videos, you have to adopt a few reflexes. For example, looking at the metadata of an image (called EXIF ​​data) which corresponds to its identity card. There is for example the date and place of its capture, but also the model of the camera. Free sites make it possible to obtain this data from a simple link or a photo to download.

Likewise, the website PhotoForensics identifies any edits that have been made to an image. For videos, the tool InVid allows you to cut a video, take screenshots, zoom, to use the reverse search for example.

But above all, it can be useful to find out about the person who is at the origin of the publication, his networks, his other publications. And above all, you have to rely on the media recognized for their professionalism.

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