To verify something means to establish the correctness, confirm something. Often it is done by checking if something matches reality, or an original.
Other synonyms to verify is to establish, prove, certify.
In times of war and political polarization, the need to be able to investigate whether something is genuine has increased. And artificial intelligence has further contributed to making fake photos and videos more difficult to detect.
SVT Verifies combines traditional journalism with the analysis of images, digital footprints and open sources to verify information that is disseminated and portray important news events in depth.