Fake or Real?

by A. Denutte

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Pour répondre, n'hésitez pas à - mener l'enquête en parallèle sur internet et les réseaux sociaux, - identifier les auteurs, - remonter à la source de l'information, - croiser les sources - ... et faire preuve d'esprit critique !

It’s Jan. 22, 2017, and you see this tweet. What is it?

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Answer: Fake. The Twitter account, @nytvideo, is a real New York Times account, but something’s off. If Russia were planning to attack the United States with missiles, why would the Times break that story on their video Twitter account and not the main one? Also, New York Times tweets are typically written in full sentences, but this tweet doesn’t capitalize the first letter or end on a period. "BREAKING" and the hashtags are strangely used and positioned. In fact hackers wrote it, hijacking the account and writing subsequent tweets attributing the attack to the hacker group OpenMine. The Times deleted the tweets.

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Answer : FAKE

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It’s Dec. 29, 2016, and you see this tweet. What is it?

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Answer: Fake. The BBC’s U.K. news feed is named “BBC News (UK),” its handle is @BBCNews, not @BBCNewsUKI. The superfluous extra “I” at the end, which a reader in a hurry might mistake for a parenthesis, is a hint that the account is not real.

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A friend sent you this story on Facebook. What is it?

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Answer: Fake. The story is top-to-bottom false, misidentifying the gunman in the March 28 Capitol Hill shooting and quoting a fake analyst blaming the violence on Donald Trump supporters. The site is trying to look like ABC News, right down to the logo with “ABC” in a black circle, but it’s not a good enough imitation. The URL is wrong, too; the real ABC is abc.go.com, whereas this is abc.com.co (the .co is a country code for Colombia, whose domains are easy to register).

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The day after the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015

You've found this on Twitter. What is it?

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Answer : Fake. Alerted by the very green color of the trees in the first photo and struck by the discrepancy they observed between these images and the real atmosphere of the Parisian pavement, several people suspected a manipulation. Rightly so, because these photos were not taken on Saturday. The first photo dates from August 2014 (what the green leaves of the trees could suggest), the second appears as an illustration for articles as early as 2012, the third was taken on a blog post in 2006, while the last was posted in 2011 by a contributor to the Routard site.

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This is ...

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Answer : It looks real. The shadows seem to match the light orientation. The chameleon and the finger have the same sharpness. These little tiny chameleons exist.

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Answer : Fake. If you check with Google Reverse Image Search, you'll see that the cow in the middle distance, on the right, has been added to the original picture.

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Answer : Fake. If you check with Google Reverse Image Search, you'll see that the fish has been added to the original picture

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Answer : It should been real. This picture was taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A friend published that on Instagram. What is it?

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Answer : Fake. ClickHole uses satire to talk about current events. If people don't understand that, they might share these articles after reading them in the literal sense. An example below :

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You've just found this on internet.

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Answer : Real. The Globe and Mail is supposed to be a reliable news source. It is a Canadian national news media. We can find the same information from other reliable sources :

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