Images that circulate as news or evidence but misrepresent reality, either through digital tampering or by being reposted from prior events in false contexts. A key concern in social media misinformation, where images spread faster and more widely than text and can mislead large audiences when miscontextualized.
Key Papers
- 2015-boididou-verifying-multimedia-use — corpus of fake and real images from news events
Related Topics
- image-verification
- multimedia-manipulation
- misinformation (broader category)