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)

<a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-helps-fact-checkers-investigate-ai-fakes/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260820/i5.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260820/p5#a260820p5" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Andrew Deck / <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/">Nieman Lab</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="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</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; 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.</p>