is-this-photo-real

Know what a photo or video actually proves.

media verification

What it does

Verifies whether an image or video is authentic, original, correctly captioned, manipulated, deepfaked, or AI-generated.

When to use it

Use when fact-checking media, investigating manipulation or synthetic content, or reviewing footage used as evidence.

Give it an image or video and the claim being tested; it returns an evidence-based verification report with stated limitations.

What you provide

This skill

online media and source pages

Read

Searches earlier media and pages

For video analysis, ffprobe exposes container, stream, frame-type, and timing information.

For video analysis, MediaInfo provides encoder, frame-rate, rotation, and track-structure information.

For platform-hosted video, yt-dlp obtains the best available rendition instead of a screen recording.

Routes provenance searching and video keyframe extraction to find-the-original-image.