Take on Fake:

Fact-checking isn’t just for professional journalists. With so much misinformation around COVID-19, how can you check the facts for yourself? Multimedia journalist Laura Garcia from First Draft walks us through how she fact-checked a viral video of an “escaped coronavirus patient” using free tools on the internet.

There’s way too much misinformation out there for us to fact check everything. I limit mine to family and friends posting stuff that is really obvious. These video has some tips and tricks I use to easily and quickly find out if something posted is fake or not. I also follow a couple of great Twitter accounts, HoaxEye and PicPedant, to help me stop some of the fake images.