With Citizen Evidence Lab, Amnesty International wants to help journalists authenticate YouTube videos

YouTube may be used by many to share awful karaoke incidents and animals doing awesome things, but it can also be a valuable journalistic tool for anyone to broadcast to the world. The problem is, however, how can you know for sure whether a video that purports to support a particular story is authentic? When was it really filmed, and where? With that in mind, Amnesty International has launched a new online tool that hopes to arm journos and human-rights advocates with the skills to sniff out the real from the fake user-generated videos. The Citizen Evidence Lab includes step-by-step...



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