This photo became part of a yet another "scandal" early this week. It depicts immigrant children being help in a detention center in 2014. This photo was recirculated, with a description related to the children separated from their families in the story that came to light last week. Outrage poured from all over the internet over this photo, most of the ire coming from social media. Now Google is trying to combat this fake, or rather misinformed" news based on images through Google Images filtering. This article details that process that Google would take to combat the mountains of misinformation online. For example, Social media today is an ocean of false and misleading information spread for nefarious purposes, but far more often by well-meaning individuals who share first and ask questions later. The ease and rapidness with which a 2014 news image went viral, made famous by the very individuals ordinarily tasked with helping to combat false information stands testament to just how easy it is for false information to spread in today’s speed-over-accuracy information ecosystem." This sums up the phenomena of how photos have just as much if not more impact compared to text. Google is using AI combined with optical character recognition (the same thing used for photo to text conversion on computers) to recognize and emphasize the truth behind those images.
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