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How investigators fact-check Ukraine war footage

Frances Rankin

Published: April 26, 2022

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Digital investigator Ben Strick, from the Centre for Information Resilience, takes painstaking steps to verify the authenticity of Ukraine war footage.

What he finds could one day be used to punish those responsible. Here's how he does it.

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