THE ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION SOURCE CREDIBILITY WITH THE USE OF OSINT

<ns3:p>In the era of increasing opportunities to manipulate image and video materials (mainly by using AI mechanisms) to such an extent that it becomes impossible for the average user of internet portals and social media to discern it, it is necessary to develop simple methods for analysis of the visual content on the internet. In this article, the author describes the types of information distortion, the approach to information analysis based on open-source intelligence principles, and presents selected techniques in this matter which offer simple and fast methods of detecting probable manipulations in the graphical content.</ns3:p>