Old flood, new caption
Photos from 2017 Kathmandu floods, Bihar or Bangladesh reappear every monsoon as “just now.” Check rain dates with DHM and search the image on Google Lens.
Upload a photo or video going viral in Nepal and get a clear verdict with evidence — what the file itself says, what’s missing, and what to check next. No single tool can prove “AI or real” 100%, so we show our work.
भाइरल फोटो वा भिडियो पठाउनुअघि जाँच्नुहोस्। यो उपकरणले फाइलको प्रमाण, मेटाडाटा र सन्दर्भ हेरेर राय दिन्छ।
Paste the claim as you saw it, add the file, and run the check. Screenshots from Facebook/WhatsApp have usually lost their original metadata — the verdict will say so honestly.
Image (JPG, PNG, WEBP) or video (MP4, MOV). Max is your device — nothing is uploaded to a server.
Choose fileFive still frames pulled from the video, the way verification tools like InVID break a clip down. One frame is often all it takes: search each one to find where this clip, or an older version of it, appeared before.
Reading file metadata…
Takes 3–5 seconds. We check provenance, metadata, dimensions & visual clues.
No file handy? Try a Nepal example
You’ll get: a clear verdict category, a confidence score, and 4 evidence cards — provenance, metadata, visual forensics, and context — plus what to do next in Nepal. Every verdict also shows its work — each check, what it found, and how it moved the score — and states plainly what evidence would change the verdict. “Fake” isn’t one thing, so the verdict isn’t either:
Every verdict also gets a C2PA provenance badge — Present, Absent or Broken — based on a quick scan for C2PA marker text in the file, not a full signature check.
No C2PA markers found in the scanned part of this file.
No black-box score. Every check this tool ran is listed in order: what it looked for, what it found, and how much it moved the confidence. Checks the browser cannot honestly run are marked “not scored” instead of being faked.
A verdict should say what evidence could overturn it. Any one of these would move this result:
Reverse search is the most decisive check for a recycled photo or clip. These buttons copy the image to your clipboard, then open the search engine — paste it there (Ctrl/Cmd+V) to search. Each engine also lets you upload the file directly. On TinEye, sort matches by “Oldest” to catch an old photo wearing a new caption.
Your answers update the recommendation below.
This is a helper, not a final proof. For elections, disasters or health claims, wait for NepalCheck, official sources (DHM, NDRRMA, Nepal Police) or a trusted newsroom before sharing.
Most viral fakes here aren’t Hollywood deepfakes. They’re simpler: a real photo with a false story, or an AI image shared on a page that looks like news.
Photos from 2017 Kathmandu floods, Bihar or Bangladesh reappear every monsoon as “just now.” Check rain dates with DHM and search the image on Google Lens.
AI portraits of leaders, fake Election Commission notices, and edited screenshots with wrong Devanagari letters. Real notices are on election.gov.np — not just a Facebook graphic.
Dashain, Tihar and Jatras bring “miracle” videos from India or old years. Emotion spreads them fast in family groups — pause before forwarding blessings or warnings.
“Canada / Korea visa guaranteed” and fake bank alerts use AI voice and logos. Verify with Dept. of Foreign Employment and the bank’s official number, never the number in the post.
Use this even without a file — it works for any WhatsApp forward your family sends you.
Don’t forward when you’re angry, scared or proud. Viral posts are designed to trigger that.
Who posted first? A real newsroom / official page, or a new page with no address?
Google Lens / TinEye the image. Search 2–3 words from the claim + “fact check”.
Shadows, clothes, number plates, signboards — do they match the claimed place and season?
If you can’t verify, say “unverified” or don’t share. Add context if you do.
SIFT is the four-move check librarian Mike Caulfield designed for exactly this moment: a message lands in the family group, it feels urgent, and your thumb is already on Forward. फर्वार्ड गर्नुअघि रोकिनुहोस्। Work through the four moves — most forwards fail at move one or two.
Don’t forward it yet — and don’t decide whether it’s true while you’re angry, scared, or proud. Notice WhatsApp’s own labels: a message marked “Forwarded many times” has already travelled far from its source, which is a warning sign, not a guarantee either way. If a post demands you share it “before it’s deleted” or “to everyone you know”, that pressure is itself a red flag.
Who actually sent this first? Tap through to the original page, channel, or number. Is it a known Nepali newsroom or official body, with a name, address, and history — or a brand-new page, an unknown foreign number, or a screenshot of a post nobody can link to? On WhatsApp, ask the person who sent it where they got it. “It was forwarded to me too” means the chain has no source.
If the claim were true, other credible outlets would be covering it too. Search the claim in the fact-check search below — NepalCheck, South Asia Check, and AFP below, plus a general web search. Silence from every newsroom about a dramatic claim is information: treat it as unverified until someone accountable reports it.
Find the first, unedited version. Run the photo or a video frame through the reverse search in the checker above, and sort TinEye by “Oldest”. Most Nepal forwards are a real photo or clip carrying a false date, place, or caption — the original context (an older monsoon, another country, a different event) is what exposes that.
Paste the claim exactly as it arrived — a headline, a sentence from the forward, or the caption — and search it where fact-checkers publish. Each button opens that search in a new tab. No result anywhere? That means “not yet checked”, not “true”.
Bookmark these. If they haven’t covered a claim yet, you can send it to them.
Nepali fact-checking — politics, health, viral claims. nepalcheck.org
Fact-checks viral images & videos across South Asia, including Nepal.
AFP’s debunks of viral photos/videos circulating in Nepal.
DHM for weather, NDRRMA for disasters, Nepal Police Cyber Bureau for scams.
Create a simple rule at home: “No forward without a check.” Elders often get health and money forwards first — check together, without shaming. घरमा नियम बनाउनुहोस् — जाँच नगरी फर्वार्ड नगरौं।