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Just found a simple way to trace flagged meme origins through reverse image search
I was trying to figure out why a meme I posted got pulled from three platforms last month (the one with the confused math lady). Turns out it was linked to a fake news hoax from 2019 I had no idea about. I used TinEye instead of Google Images and it showed the earliest posting date plus the original context. Has anyone else had luck tracking down why their memes got banned using a specific tool?
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alices1617d ago
Oh man, this exact thing happened to my friend Jess a few weeks ago. She had this old meme with a cat screaming at a salad and it got flagged on both FB and Instagram. She used Yandex Image search instead of Google and found out the original photo was actually from a 2016 stock image set that was used in a anti-vax propaganda meme later. Total accident on her part, she just thought the cat looked funny. She even found out the cat's name is Mittens and it belonged to a photographer in Ohio. Wild how something so innocent can get twisted.
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jana_hernandez17d ago
What if the platforms are using the same image hashing and just flagging everything near it?
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