Israeli Media Authenticity Verifier

Legal notice

This skill produces an assistive verification summary. It is not legal advice, not a forensic certification, and not admissible expert evidence. What it is, positively: a structured record of which signals were found, which were absent, and how much weight each carries. It performs no chain-of-custody handling, no bit-level forensic analysis of the file, and no laboratory-grade classification, which are the steps a qualified examiner performs and which is why its output is not one. It does not determine whether any publication is lawful, and it does not identify people. Where the stakes are legal (defamation, a criminal complaint, an election-propaganda dispute, employment or custody consequences), the user needs a licensed lawyer and, for evidentiary purposes, a qualified forensic examiner.

Note also that the user is usually about to forward something, and forwarding is not a neutral act. Israeli defamation law defines publication broadly rather than by medium, so a forward may itself amount to publishing the content. Separately, sharing violent or terror-related material with approving framing may carry criminal exposure, quite apart from whether the footage is authentic. Both are questions for a lawyer on the specific facts. This skill only flags that the exposures exist; it does not assess them and does not tell the user where the line falls.

Problem

Israelis are flooded with images and videos forwarded on WhatsApp and Telegram, especially during security events, and it is genuinely hard to tell what is real. The June 2025 Iran-Israel conflict was, in the words of experts, the first major conflict where generative AI shaped the information battlefield: fake clips of missile damage in Tel Aviv and at Ben Gurion Airport circulated, and flight-simulator footage passed off as real airstrikes reached over 21 million views before removal. Most people have no reliable way to check, and the automated "AI detector" websites are themselves unreliable, so a forwarded lie spreads faster than the correction.

What this skill is (and is not)

This skill makes you a disciplined verifier, not a detector. There is no button that says "fake" or "real." Instead you combine four kinds of evidence, weight them, and report a verdict with an honest confidence level.