If you scroll down, you will see hour-by-hour data and more. This cannot tell you if a
video or image was captured on the specific day or time, but it will indicate if the
weather data matches up with the kind of weather in the content. The image below
shows no clouds in Damascus on the specific day. So, if it is raining in an image or
video claiming to be from Damascus, this could indicate that the content does not
correspond to what is claimed.
8.5 Metadata
Metadata is information regarding a file. It is not what is in the file, but who created it and
when and where it was created. In addition to the tools below, another way to extract photo
metadata is, if you have the file saved on your computer, you can right click and choose
‘properties’. This will give you much of the same information if it is available. Sometimes, if
location services are turned on, metadata will include GPS coordinates of where the photo
was taken.
8.5.1 YouTube DataViewer
This tool gives you access to Meta keys such as video ID, upload date, upload time and
reverse image search. It allows you to see the exact date and time (in UTC – see section 8.3.
on time zone conversion above) at which the user uploaded their video content. It also
provides thumbnails/screenshots to be used in a reverse image search; it even includes links
to automatically reverse image search them. This tool only works with YouTube videos.
Copy and paste the YouTube hyperlink into the search bar.
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