A viral post uses photos of a bombing in Syria to accuse major media outlets of staging violence.

When the post surfaces in Hungarian, an AFP journalist uses reverse image search to uncover the photos' true origins.

Read the full investigation here: https://tenykerdes.afp.com/doc.afp.com.328B8ME (use your browser's translate function if you don't read Hungarian).

In this video, you will see how to find the original source of viral images with the help of freely-available online tools.

You can also do our digital course on finding the original source of viral images here: https://digitalcourses.afp.com/courses/reverse-image-searches

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