Here are some tips on how to verify information online:CROSS-REFERENCE your news sources. If you are on a computer, right click on a picture and select “Search Google for Image”. This will look for the picture from an online database to check if the image has appeared online before, in what context and if it has been altered. They will use domain names similar to a reputable media, such as “cnn-channel.com”. If you can’t verify any information, such as people’s names or organisations that are quoted, chances are they are false.

Source: New Strait Times November 02, 2019 16:35 UTC