nev on Nostr: After seeing one too many "if this really happened…" social media screenshot posts ...

After seeing one too many "if this really happened…" social media screenshot posts I'm thinking I should put my frustration towards something positive by writing a quick guide to how to find the source of a screenshot. Like, "this is what a Twitter/Tumblr/Facebook post looks like", googling for distinct phrases in the post or looking up the profile, searching archive/mirror sites if it's not publicly available, etc., making a list of relevant people/organizations/companies to contact to verify the details, etc.

Quite often, such things *won't* be verifiable, and the unfortunate truth is that you cannot trust it and should probably not repost or spread it.

#MediaLiteracy