Make sure that you always use verified sources.
Here some articles about the issue:
Code of Ethics of Aljazeera
Interesting study of Trusted Media:
How to build Trust in the Digital Age
You can download the study
here:
The Nieman Foundation about the
BBC’s Verification Hub
The verification process in the BBC Newsroom in London includes among other factors:
- Referencing
locations against maps and existing images from, in particular, geo-located ones.
- Working with our
colleagues in BBC Arabic and BBC Monitoring to ascertain that accents and language are correct for the location.
- Searching for the
original source of the upload/sequences as an indicator of date.
- Examining
weather reports and shadows to confirm that the conditions shown fit with the claimed date and time.
- Maintaining
lists of previously verified material to act as reference for colleagues covering the stories.
- Checking
weaponry, vehicles and licence plates against those known for the given country.