Recent elections across the world have shown a growing amount of misinformation going viral ahead of polling day.
With one eye on the 2020 US election campaign, program director for The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Cassandra Balfour spoke to fact-checking expert Matt Riley for his tips for fact-checking throughout the upcoming election season on ICFJ.
Riley predicted that deepfakes will seep into this election cycle and that newsrooms should use visual fact-checking tools, such as TinEye, to spot doctored content.
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