4 Time of Event 4.1 Verifying and Corroborating the Time of the Event Depicted The next step of the verification process is finding out when the content was created or uploaded. Sometimes a photo or video may be taken or recorded long before it was uploaded. You should also know whether the time of creation of the content matches with the time of the occurrence of the alleged event or not. If the content originates from before the alleged time of the event, it is safe to say that it is not a piece of evidence of that specific event. If the content was uploaded a long time after the event, it might relate to a different, subsequent, event. Corroborating information with the help of news-sources or weather data help solidify a claim that the event took place at a certain time. If you are trying to determine whether or not the photo or video is from the original source - essentially the first person to capture and/or upload it - reverse image searching might give you the answer. If you think you are looking at the original source but your reverse image search shows that it was uploaded at a previous time, it might not be the original source.  A helpful method is to see whether there are any news outlets reporting on the event depicted. News articles might be able to clarify what is happening in the content under consideration, and may also help you figure out when something occurred (which is relevant to point 3 below). You can use this as corroborating evidence, showing that the event did in fact take place at that specific time. NB: Always be sceptical of news sources. As will be shown in the example below, even trustworthy news sources can sometimes use content from a different time and place.  If you are trying to verify or dismiss a YouTube video, run a metadata analysis (See Resources and Tools, Section 8.5.1) on the content. A metadata analysis does not give you information about what is shown in a video, the video’s description, or a description of the account. Rather, it shows you information about the upload itself, for example the time and date a video was uploaded to YouTube. As long as it was uploaded after said event took place, even by only, say, thirty minutes, it adds to the probability that the video shows the event it claims to.  Run a reverse image search on the thumbnails of the video, created by the metadata analysis (see Resources and Tools, Section 8.2). 25