A video carries a news outlet’s logo: does it really come from them?
Some videos copy the look of a well-known news outlet, its logo, banner and typeface, to pass off a fake as verified news. The logo proves nothing: what matters is where the video is published.
Five checks
Look for the video at the outlet
On its website and its official accounts. If you cannot find it there, nothing shows it comes from them: a newsroom publishes what it produces.
Look at the address of the site sharing it
An address close to a known outlet’s is not that outlet. Check it on Recto: its card says who publishes the site, according to public registers.
Look at the account posting it
Is it the outlet’s official account, or a recent account with no other posts and a similar name?
Look for a denial
When a fake video circulates in their name, many newsrooms say so on their website or accounts.
Do not share it until you have found its source
Sharing it to ask “is this true?” still spreads it.
Check a site on Recto
Paste the address of the site where you saw the video: if Recto has its card, you see who publishes it and what the registers say.
If the video is fake
Report it to the platform where you saw it, with its reporting feature.
If it contains threats, hate or other illegal content, also report it on PHAROS, the French Ministry of the Interior’s platform. internet-signalement.gouv.fr
Recto does not check videos themselves: for each site, it shows what public registers and the site’s own legal notices say.