4.1.1 Case study Verifying and corroborating the time of the event under condiseration could be of utmost importance. Below you will find images used by media outlets and Twitter users when reporting about an event the DVC was asked to verify. However, the event proved difficult to verify, given the use of images of earlier attacks, rather than actual images of the attack under investigation. A useful tip to always keep in mind is that even trusted news-sources can use images from two years ago when reporting about something that happened yesterday. The DVC was asked by Amnesty’s Crisis Response Team to research various videos, pictures, and news articles about a US led NATO airstrike on Sangin, in the district of Helmand in Afghanistan, on 11 February 2017. The airstrikes allegedly killed up to 20 civilians (new reports varied). The DVC carried out digital verification on the content that could be found online, and was able to establish that many of the pictures could be traced back as far as 2010, and had nothing to do with the 11 February Sangin airstrikes. Although many news articles and tweets highlighted this incident, it was clear most of the pictures used did not depict the actual attack, as the time of the event did not match the time the images were actually uploaded. Tweet by user @khilafarashida. A reverse image search led the DVC to the conclusion that the images attached to the tweet were from between 2013 and 2016. None were from February 2017. NB. Faces were blurred in the original post. 27