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How to Identify Satire News Before You Share

How to Identify Satire News Before You Share

A funny headline can travel farther than a correction. One screenshot, missing label, or cropped link can turn obvious news satire into supposed breaking news. When we need to identify satire news, we should not rely on tone alone. We need to inspect the source, check...
How Social Media Captions Change Video Meaning

How Social Media Captions Change Video Meaning

A video can show the same moment to millions of people and still produce millions of different conclusions. Often, the difference is not the footage. It’s the caption placed above it. Social media captions tell us what to notice, whom to blame, and how much...
Why Old Videos Reappear During Breaking News

Why Old Videos Reappear During Breaking News

A crisis can make a five-year-old video look like live evidence within minutes. We see a clip, read an urgent caption, and assume the images belong to the event unfolding now. That assumption is often wrong. Old footage gets pulled from archives, reposted without...
How We Verify Viral Quotes in Original Interviews

How We Verify Viral Quotes in Original Interviews

A quote graphic can travel millions of miles before anyone checks whether the speaker said it. By then, the image may look like evidence. It isn’t. When we verify viral quotes, we separate the words from the graphic, the speaker from the attribution, and the...