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My cousin showed me a fake video of our grandpa at a party in Chicago last summer.
He said 'you can't trust anything you see anymore' and now I always check the source before believing any wild clip online. How do you guys verify stuff before sharing it?
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ryanm603mo ago
My local news station shared a clip of a "bear" in a park last month. It was just a big dog with a bad camera angle. That stuff spreads faster than the truth now. I run any video through a reverse image search first.
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riverdavis3mo ago
Oh man, I feel that. I once got spooked by a garden hose thinking it was a snake. My own reverse image search would just show me a sad picture of my laundry pile.
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That "spreads faster than the truth" thing is why I just don't click share anymore.
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martin.riley1mo ago
Spreads faster than the truth" is exactly right, it's like once people hit that share button there's no taking it back. I fell for a clip last year that looked like a cougar walking down a suburban street, turned out to be someone's escaped house cat with a messed up perspective. Now I do the same thing you mentioned, I run every weird video through reverse image search before I even think about sending it to anyone.
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