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Exercise 6
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For this challenge we are required to verify if the image posted on the journalist’s twitter page is true. In this lab we shall be learning the skill for data verification as the internet is filled with a lot of misinformation, no matter who says something on the internet, the data has to be verified as in the case above, the journalist is a verified journalist but the photo posted has to be confirmed even though the information seems to be true. In an OSINT investigation, data found has to be verified to be factual be fore coming up with a report.

Below is the task briefing.

Task briefing: 
On January 19, 2023, a journalist 
with almost 140k followers on Twitter shared an image of a destroyed 
vehicle amidst a large cloud of smoke and fire. The tweet said: “BREAKING: TTP carried out a suicide attack on a police post in Khyber city of Pakistan that killed three Pakistani police officers.“

The photo is not of the event described by the journalist.
a) Verify the statement above.

From the tweet the post was made on January 19, 2023 but when I did a reverse image search I got more than one result form tin-eye as shown below some images indexed dating as old as 2009.

With the above findings it is clear the post was a false information source for the case. However doing further research, the bombing scene identified above happened in Baghdad, the image metadata info found form this link form the Tineye reverse image searches.