Verifying conflict: Anastasia Taylor-Lind and the eyeWitness to Atrocity app

Verifying conflict: Anastasia Taylor-Lind and the eyeWitness to Atrocity app

In an age where the image is increasingly under question, how can you verify that a photograph has not been tampered with? Examples like…

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In an age where the image is increasingly under question, how can you verify that a photograph has not been tampered with? Examples like that of the cloned Iranian missiles in 2008 can have serious political repercussions. Other examples such as the 2018 British Wildlife Photographer of the Year (showing an anteater moving towards a termite mound) demonstrate the problem of misrepresentation. The picture was disqualified when it turned out the anteater was a taxidermy specimen.