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Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations
"Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations - bellingcat: Reverse image search is one of the most well-known and easiest digital investigative techniques, with two-click functionality of choosing “Search Google for image” in many web browsers. This method has also seen widespread use in popular culture, perhaps most notably in the MTV show Catfish, which exposes people in online relationships who use stolen photographs."
The Russian search engine Yandex comes out top in this test of various reverse image search functions.
I've also used Tineye which is good for finding very similar copies of images. Good for finding the earliest posting of a particular image especially when you think someone has ... er ... repurposed it.
Source: www.bellingcat.com
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