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).
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Grants and Subsidies
- Expanding to more markets /finding new customers
We are trying to foster the adoption of the plug-in by:
1) integrating more tools under the new project WeVerify
2) translating the plug-in into more languages (currently it is available in English, French and Spanish)
3) adapting it to media and news literacy through the EU-funded project YouCheck!
4) permanently monitor news needs from end-users through constant feedback
5) seeking collaboration with interested stakeholder to spread its use as an Open Source Intelligence tool (OSINT)
6) seeking more debunking contracts with social media platforms (for AFP as main developer of the toolbox)
- Public or private funding institutions
- International Organisations (ex. OECD, FAO, UN, etc.)
- Other Actors who can help us fulfil our market potential
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
The InVID plug-in is currently in use in many newsrooms around the World as well as in Human rights organisations, fact-checking operations and in media literacy. It is used by the main media around the World (BBC, NYTimes, CNN, AFP, DW, ARD, ZDF, RTVE, France-Info, France24, Times of India, TV Novosti, …).
