A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

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https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-helps-fact-checkers-investigate-ai-fakes/">A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers — Every day the fact-checking team for one of India's largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media.