67 FUTURESHOCK InVID
PLUGGING INTO THE FACTS The InVID plug-in is available for free as an extension to the Chrome and Firefox browsers. Users can insert URLs for videos or images into the toolkit or upload local files and get back a plethora of data about the material, its origins and its authenticity. At its most basic, the InVID dashboard offers an analysis tool that returns the metadata attached to a video. In the case of YouTube, it returns the video’s title, description, view count, upload time, thumbs up & down, number of comments and channel data, among other parameters. InVID also automatically extracts keyframes from every shot of a video, as well as searching for matching thumbnails that might be available elsewhere around the web. It also allows very time-specific searches on Twitter posts, which can help determine exactly when the video might have been previously tweeted. Posting old or out of context videos for misinformation purposes, or even as clickbait, has become more frequent internationally around major news
WORKING TOGETHER InVid consortium members In Vienna. Member companies include Agence France-Presse, APA-IT, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Condat AG, Deutsche Welle, Exo Makina, Modul Technology, Universitat de Lleida, and WebLyzard Technology
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