The InVID plug-in is a toolkit to verify images and videos and to debunk disinformation. The main idea behind it was to wrap up a collection of different tools and open source libraries to provide end-users with a comprehensive toolbox, through a single graphical user interface immediately at hand when needed.
The toolbox provides tools to 1) extract contextual information from YouTube channels, Twitter videos, Facebook public videos (“Analysis”), 2) fragment almost any video into keyframes to perform image reverse search on the resulting images (“Keyframes”), 3) query YouTube thumbnails through several reverse image search engines (“Thumbnails”), 4) an advance Twitter search through intervals of time up to the minute (“Twitter Search”), 5) a magnifying lens to detect implicit knowledge within images or video keyframes (“Magnifier”), 6) a metadata reader for both still images and videos (“Metadata”), 7) a video rights tools to know what journalists can do when they want to re-use and publish UGC content (from YouTube, Facebook and Twitter), and 8) a still images forensic tool (“Forensic”, developed by CERTH and Deutsche Welle in the previous EU FP7 project Reveal).
