You could then set up an alerting system that would email you or SMS when a new image is detected that does not show up in TinEye. As each photo gets posted, you could then retrieve that photo and use the TinEye API to reverse search automatically. Now of course what you could do to automate this process would be to watch a trending hash tag on Twitter, and then monitor all posts with photos in them. Another useful technique is to take a logo or image used by a group of people, and use TinEye or Google searches to find other social media or websites that use the logo or image to help expand your investigation sources. You can augment those results with a TinEye search as well.
If Google only returns results for example for “Baltimore riots” and does not have older images present in its index you can ascertain that the image is newer and potentially original content. Wrapping UpĪs mentioned in the article at the beginning of this post, this is an incredibly useful way to determine if someone is reposting old content or actually uploading some new stuff. Voila! Now you can search all manner of images that you come across when you are doing your OSINT work, or even if you want to watch events unfold in real time you can begin to spot the bullshitters. I want you to right-click on the image below and then select Search Google for this image. Now let’s take a look at a neat piece of technology that is built in to Chrome. Firefox has some tools that you can install, but overall I have always preferred using Chrome. So how do we actually do these checks that he talks about in the article? Using Google Reverse Image Searchįirst off, if you’re not using Google Chrome for all of your OSINT goodness then you really should.
In a lot of cases, he discovered that the images being Tweeted during the riots were actually old images. The moral of this story was that you can use reverse search on your browser to double check images before you believe that they are current or even relevant to the story they are attached to. Read it first before carrying on:īaltimore ‘looting’ tweets show importance of quick and easy image checks Stemming from the recent riots in Baltimore, Eoghan mac Suibhne ( Twitter) wrote an interesting piece on image verification.
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