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🧠AI content & deepfakes(9)
AI Detector for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini: Tools Compared (2026)
Compare leading AI text detectors — GPTZero, Copyleaks, ZeroGPT, Originality.ai, Undetectable AI. Accuracy, false positive risk, and which tool fits students vs. publishers.
Deepfake Detection: Tools, Signs, and What to Do (2026)
How to recognize video and voice deepfakes — visual artifacts (blinking, lighting, lip sync), audio cues, free detection tools, and where to report confirmed deepfakes.
How to Check If an Image Is AI-Generated With SynthID (2026)
Google's SynthID hides an invisible watermark in AI-made images. Learn how to check for it — ask Gemini, use the SynthID Detector portal, and why a 'no watermark' result isn't proof a photo is real.
How to Fact-Check AI Chatbot Answers: Catch Hallucinations Before You Trust Them
A practical guide to verifying what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any AI chatbot tells you — how to isolate checkable claims, open the citations it gives you, spot fabricated sources, and confirm answers against a real primary source.
How to Spot a Deepfake Investment Scam (Celebrity Crypto Ads, 2026)
A step-by-step guide to spotting deepfake celebrity investment ads — the fake Elon Musk 'Quantum AI' and Martin Lewis videos pushing crypto platforms. Five checks you can run before you send any money.
How to Spot a Deepfake Video Call: Live Verification Checklist (2026)
A real-time deepfake can copy a person's face and voice on a live video call. Learn the visual tells, liveness tests, and callback rule that catch impersonation before you act.
How to Spot an AI Voice Cloning Scam: Signs, Safe Words & What to Do (2026)
AI can clone a voice from a few seconds of audio. Learn the red flags of a voice-cloning scam, how to set a family safe word, and the verify-first steps the FBI and FTC recommend.
How to Tell If a Video Is AI-Generated: A Practical Checklist (2026)
A hands-on guide to spotting AI-generated video from Sora, Veo, and Kling. What to look for frame by frame, how to read provenance signals like C2PA and SynthID, which detectors to trust, and where they all fail.
Is This Image AI Generated? Free Detection Guide (2026)
Spot AI-generated images with visual tells (hands, eyes, jewelry, backgrounds) and compare free detection tools — Sightengine, WasItAI, DeepfakeDetection.io, plus reverse image search.
🖼️Image & photo verification(7)
How to Check Content Credentials (C2PA) on a Photo or Video (2026)
Read Content Credentials the right way: get the original file, verify at verify.contentauthenticity.org or with c2patool, check the signer and AI history, and know why provenance isn't proof of truth.
How to Find Where a Photo Was Taken: A Geolocation Guide
Find where a photo was taken, step by step. Check EXIF/GPS data, read the visual clues, use the sun and shadows, and confirm the exact spot on Street View — the same geolocation method used by fact-checkers.
How to Reverse Image Search a Screenshot (Phone & Desktop, 2026)
A screenshot strips the original file's metadata and adds UI chrome, so a naive search often returns nothing. Here's how to crop, choose the right engine (Google Lens, TinEye, Yandex, Bing), and trace where an image really came from — on iPhone, Android, and desktop.
How to Reverse Image Search: Trace Any Photo to Its Source
A practical reverse image search guide for verifying photos. Which engine to use (Google Lens, Bing, Yandex, TinEye), how to run it on desktop and phone, and how to find the oldest copy of an image.
How to Spot a Fake Screenshot: Verify Tweets, Headlines & Chats
A practical guide to spotting fake screenshots of tweets, news headlines, and chat messages. Find the original post, check the archive, read the UI tells, and run a metadata pass — with the free tools that actually work on screenshots.
How to Tell if a Photo Is Edited or Photoshopped — A Forensics Checklist
A practical guide to spotting edited and photoshopped images: reading EXIF metadata, running Error Level Analysis, catching cloned regions, and checking light and shadows. Free tools, real caveats.
How to Tell If an Image Was Made With Grok (Aurora) — Watermark & Metadata Check (2026)
Grok's Aurora is the outlier among AI image tools: a visible corner logo but no reliable invisible watermark and thin provenance metadata. Here's how to check whether a picture came from Grok — and why the absence of a mark proves nothing.
🎣Scams & fake accounts(5)
How to Spot a Fake URL: Tell If a Website Link Is Real or a Scam
A practical, no-jargon guide to reading a web address. Learn where the real domain hides, how look-alike letters and punycode (xn--) tricks work, why the padlock proves nothing, and the 30-second checks that catch a fake URL before you click.
How to Spot a Phishing Email (Even the AI-Written Ones)
Grammar mistakes stopped being the tell. Here's how to spot a phishing email in 2026 — check the real sender domain, hover links, watch for urgency and odd attachments, and verify through a channel you already trust.
How to Spot Fake and Bot Accounts on Social Media (2026)
A practical guide to telling a bot or sock-puppet account from a real person. What to read in the profile first, the follower math that gives it away, the copy-paste patterns behind coordinated campaigns, and why AI-written comments no longer settle it.
How to Spot Fake Reviews: 7 Red Flags (2026 Guide)
Learn how to spot fake and AI-generated reviews before you buy: read the wording, check for review bursts, inspect reviewer profiles, read the rating spread, weigh verified purchases, and vet the photos.
Is This Text Message a Scam? How to Spot a Smishing Text
A plain-language checklist for suspicious texts. Learn the smishing red flags that hold up in 2026 — fake delivery and bank alerts, one-time-code theft, sender and link mismatches — plus exactly what to do (and never do) with a scam text.
📰News, sources & claims(11)
Financial Fake News Checker: Crypto Scams & Stock Pump-and-Dump (2026)
How financial misinformation works in 2026 — Telegram pump groups, fake CEO tweets, AI-generated earnings reports — and the verification steps that protect retail investors.
How to Check If a Source Is Credible: The SIFT Method (Lateral Reading)
A practical guide to checking whether a website or source is credible using SIFT and lateral reading — the four moves professional fact-checkers use to evaluate online information in under a minute.
How to Fact-Check a Claim Before You Share It (2026)
A fast, repeatable checklist for fact-checking before you share: the emotion test, lateral reading, reverse image search, and tracing a claim to its primary source — with the free tools that make each step quick.
How to Fact-Check a WhatsApp Forward Before You Pass It On
A practical routine for checking whether a forwarded WhatsApp message is true — read the forwarding label, trace the source, reverse-image-search the photo, verify against the named institution, and run it through a fact-checker before you share.
How to Fact-Check Anything: The SIFT Method (Lateral Reading) (2026)
Learn the SIFT method — Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims — the four-move fact-checking technique built on the lateral reading habit used by professional fact-checkers.
How to Read a Scientific Study: Spot Bad Science Before You Share
A practical, source-driven guide to reading a scientific study like a fact-checker — how to tell peer-reviewed research from a press release, separate correlation from causation, weigh sample size, and check for retractions.
How to Spot Clickbait and Misleading Headlines (2026)
A practical guide to spotting clickbait: the curiosity-gap trick, five headline tells, and the 30-second check that catches a misleading headline before you share it.
How to Spot Fake News on Social Media (TikTok, X, WhatsApp, YouTube)
Platform-by-platform patterns for catching misinformation on TikTok, X (Twitter), WhatsApp, and YouTube — plus a 5-step verification check that works on any platform.
How to Verify a News Article: 7-Step FAXTR Method (2026)
Learn the 7-step FAXTR method to verify any news article: source check, cross-reference AFP/Reuters/Snopes, reverse image search, date and author check, primary sources, and AI detection.
How to Verify a Quote: Spot Fake and Misattributed Quotes
A practical guide to checking whether a quote is real and correctly attributed. Learn to trace quotes with Google Books, Quote Investigator, Wikiquote, and primary sources before you share.
How to Verify a Viral Video: Is It Old, Real, or Out of Context? (2026)
Most video misinformation is real footage with a false caption, not a deepfake. Learn the reverse-video-search workflow — keyframes, TinEye 'oldest first', InVID/WeVerify, and reading clues inside the frame — that fact-checkers use to catch recycled and miscaptioned clips.
🌏Regional & multilingual(4)
Como detectar fake news — Guia completo 2026
Guia passo a passo para detectar e verificar fake news no Brasil: cheque domínios, use verificadores profissionais, busque imagens reversas, identifique conteúdo gerado por IA. Para jornalistas, estudantes e cidadãos.
Cómo verificar noticias falsas — Guía completa 2026
Guía paso a paso para verificar noticias falsas: chequea dominios, contrasta con verificadores profesionales, busca imágenes en reverso, detecta contenido IA. Para periodistas, estudiantes y ciudadanos en España, México, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Perú y todo Latinoamérica.
LATAM Misinformation Tracker — Desinformación en Latinoamérica 2026
Seguimiento de desinformación viral en Latinoamérica: México, Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Perú, Venezuela. Casos verificados, patrones de fake news regionales, y verificadores locales recomendados.
Southeast Asia Fact-Check Hub — Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines 2026
Regional fact-checking guide for Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia. Local verifiers, common disinformation patterns, election misinformation, WhatsApp/Telegram chain analysis.
✅Fact-checking basics(6)
How to Check If a QR Code Is Safe Before You Scan (2026)
QR codes hide the link until it's too late. Learn how to check if a QR code is safe — preview the URL on iPhone and Android, spot a fake sticker on a parking meter or menu, recognize quishing red flags, and what to do if you already scanned one.
How to Spot Cheapfakes: Out-of-Context and Miscaptioned Media (2026)
Most online misinformation isn't a deepfake — it's real media taken out of context. Learn to spot cheapfakes: miscaptioned photos, selective crops, slowed video, and spliced clips, plus the free checks that expose them.
How to Tell If a LinkedIn Profile Is Fake (AI-Generated Ones Too)
A practical way to check whether a LinkedIn profile is real in 2026 — including the AI-generated headshots reverse image search can't catch. Read the 'About this profile' panel, run the photo, and verify the person exists off-platform.
How to Tell If a Video Was Made With Sora (Watermark & C2PA Check, 2026)
A practical way to check whether a clip came from OpenAI's Sora — read the moving watermark, inspect its C2PA Content Credentials, and understand why a missing watermark is not proof a video is real.
How to Tell If a Video Was Made With Veo 3 (SynthID & Watermark Check, 2026)
A practical way to check whether a clip came from Google's Veo — spot the corner watermark, run it through SynthID in the Gemini app, and understand why a clean-looking video is not proof it's real.
How to Tell If a Viral 'War Video' Is Actually Video Game Footage (2026)
Clips from Arma 3 and other military sims get passed off as real combat footage during every conflict. Here's how to tell if a viral video is really a video game — the quality tells, the in-game giveaways, and the reverse-search workflow that traces it back to a gamer's channel.