{
  "id": 2083921,
  "title": "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)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/a-look-at-backstory-an-experimental-ai-image-authentication-tool-from",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-20T06:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-helps-fact-checkers-investigate-ai-fakes/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Google DeepMind has developed an experimental AI image authentication tool called Backstory. The tool is being offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and fact-checkers. According to Nieman Lab, Backstory aims to help verify the authenticity of images circulating on social media.\n\nThe tool's development was reported by Techmeme, which cited an example of a fact-checking team in India working to debunk false and misleading images on social media.\n\nGoogle Research has also been working on a separate system, PhotoScan, which uses AI to estimate body composition by analyzing 2D images of the body, as reported by Android Authority. This system was trained using data from X-ray scans and can estimate body fat levels, as well as ratios between core and waist/leg fat, and organ and subcutaneous fat.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Android Authority",
        "title": "Google built a camera-based tool to estimate body fat more accurately than wearables",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/google-built-a-camera-based-tool-to-estimate-body-fat-more-accurately",
        "published": "2026-08-19T20:30:09.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}