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Hi, I'm Hari Sreenivasan, and welcome to another episode of TAKE ON FAKE, where we'll try to debunk some of the things you may have seen or even shared online. Did you see the video of the allegedly escaped coronavirus patient in Italy? It was dramatic. A man being chased by men in hazmat suits while he screamed, "Help!" to stunned passersby. So why did this go viral and how can you, as a viewer, determine if it's real or if it's not? For that, we turn to Laura Garcia. She works with First Draft and she works with journalists all over the world to help to verify what they find online. So one of the most common types of disinformation that we see online are images and videos that are not manipulated. They haven't been doctored or edited in any way. They're just old or they're taken out of context. And I know this from the work that we do at First Draft. So my initial thought was, can we look for this video and see if it's existed on the Internet before. If you can walk me through this. Let me see what you're looking at and what you did. This is the original tweet that we're talking about and a couple of things to look about at it. So the writing in Arabic says exactly the same thing as the tweet. An Italian Corona patient escaped from Hospital. Because I've got a friend who speaks Arabic and I asked him to translate real quick. And the other thing is that the person who shared it. If we look at this person's account, they have quite a lot of followers. So I was actually concerned that because this person shared, it has a big following, a bunch of people were going to share it. And I went to a plug in called InVID. So this is an amazing kind of like all solution plug-in. And it has a bunch of tools for journalists to use. Anything from looking at YouTube thumbnails or searching through Twitter. And the one that I wanted was this one that says analysis, because you can then take a link from a video on Twitter or on YouTube. And it does a little bit of detective share looking on it. So here, for example, it gives me more information about the account, local time it was posted, a bunch of more information that I can use to kind of decide whether the account is legit. And then at the bottom here is the magic trick. It takes a thumbnail that I can then reverse image search. And this reverse image search is where you can kind of ask the Internet whether it's Google or another search engine, "Has something been uploaded to the Internet before with a thumbnail like this? Can you find this online?" So I searched across all of them and started to find it in other places. So it's been on...