YouTube DataViewer by Amnesty International

Media United States of America

JournalismAI The London School of Economics and Political Science (2025) 'JournalismAI'. Available at: https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/polis/JournalismAI (Accessed March 2025).

Amnesty International's YouTube DataViewer allows users to extract metadata from any YouTube video. Additionally, it provides the ability to view the video's thumbnail and conduct a reverse image search on it, helping to verify the authenticity and origin of the content. This tool supports digital evidence collection for human rights documentation.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking

Data Gathering (Open-source intelligence tools, Geospatial data platforms, Public record datasets) Data Verification (Fact-checking, Reverse-image search, Source tracing) Social Media Mining (Automated filtering, Pattern identification) Hazard Monitoring and Warning Systems

#analyze Analyze video metadata and thumbnails to verify the authenticity of online content, ensuring that digital evidence is accurate and reliable for human rights documentation.

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Developed by: Private Sector
Deployment Type: Web Platform
Community Moderation: Does not require community manager
Difficulty Level: Does not require developer
License: Proprietary

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