These pictures of a pool 🏊♂️ are shared all over the 🌏, this tweet with caption "mass stupidity" was shared 1.6K times.🤔
No #context is given.
What do we see? Let's find out! 👇👇👇 1/...
#OSINT 🔎
#Verification 📸
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐
We don't find the original context with Reverse Image Search. 😢
But we do find these pictures shared with captions in 🇳🇱, 🇯🇵 and 🇬🇧. We see it on an internetforum about #QAnon and in 🇷🇺 and 🇵🇱 language.
The image is intriguing. 😲 People doubt if it's #real or #fake. 2/...
In the top right corner, however, we see the logo of the French TV channel TF1 and 'Le 13h' 🟨.
With this information and the French word for swimming pool ("piscine"), we google. 🔎 3/...
This brings us to a report by TF1 that was broadcast on 20 January 2022 🟥. 4/...
You can watch it here: tf1.fr/tf1/jt-13h/vid…
The report shows elderly people coming to take cures at a sanatorium in Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, a municipality in the Landes. According to TF1, this spa 'lost half of its activity in 2021, but 2022 could be the year of recovery'. 5/...
If we compare images on social media (left) with the images in the report (seconds 3 and 9, right), they match. ✅ 6/...
Reports on social media from the Thermes Adour sanatorium confirm that filming by TF1 took place at their Thermes Sourcéo facility.
Photos show the same transparent partitions in a swimming pool. So the images are #real. 7/...
On the Thermes Sourcéo site we find a ground plan of the sanatorium (right). The images appear to have been taken in the Piscine de Mobilisation 🟥.
#GeoLocation 📍
The panels are thus placed in a pool where elderly people or people undergoing rehabilitation do exercise. 8/...
This is also confirmed by an archive photo (left) which shows that similar bars for exercises🟪 had also been installed in the pool before the corona crisis.
It is likely that more vulnerable people come here than in an ordinary public pool 🏊♂️. #ContextMatters 9/...
To find the covid measures of this particular spa I used "site:", the URL of this place and "covid".
Much quicker than searching on their site. 😉 10/...
Thermes Adour applies these corona measures: thermes-dax.com/questions/tout…
Pool partitions are also part of the measures: '[...] Wherever possible, PVC partition walls have been installed, limiting contact between patients.' ✅ 11/...
Conclusion: Is this "mass stupidity" or "common sense to protect elderly from covid infections"⁉️ That's for you to decide. Those are opinions, I was looking for facts.
But without this #context these images sure are #misleading. #Real or #fake is rarely the big question. 12/...
What have we learned? 👩🏫
1) If a picture contains better clues (logo of TF1), don't waste your time with Reverse Image Search. 📺😉
2) #GeoLocation continues inside. Ground plans can be useful. 📍
3) Use "site:" to quickly find specific info on a website. 🔎 13/15
You can read my full article (in Dutch) for FREE here (@Knack ). 👇 14/15
knack.be/nieuws/factche…
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