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How to verify a viral video
Place, date, origin, and publish-safety are different jobs.
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GUIDES TO BETTER EVIDENCE.
Short reference notes on how to read origin, independence, and contradiction. Not a fact-check feed.
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Lineage is not confirmation
Five articles can be one source family.
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What C2PA Content Credentials do not prove
Provenance credentials are not scene authenticity.
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Metadata limits
EXIF, timestamps, and filenames are weak.
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Finding the original source
Earliest independent origin, not the first post you saw.
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What a transaction proves
On-chain facts are not meaning.
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What insufficient evidence means
Abstention is a successful outcome.
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Primary versus secondary
Issuer records and camera originals beat recaps.
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Contradiction-first search
Absence of a pasted contradiction is not evidence of absence.
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Journalist: breaking footage
Publish-safe is a different intent from 'is this AI'.
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