Bellingcat Image & Video Investigation Tools

Tools for verifying, analyzing, and extracting information from photos and videos. Covers reverse image search, metadata extraction, facial recognition, and video forensics.

Choosing Tools

• Use reverse search to investigate provenance, metadata tools for origin clues, and forensic tools to assess possible manipulation.
• Treat facial-recognition results as leads, not identification; corroborate with independent evidence and consider privacy impacts.

Tools

Reverse Image Search