Hany Farid

And there's also a consequence for getting it wrong.

Right?

So if you want reliable information, get the hell off of social media and go to places that have editorial and journalistic standards.

Okay.

Number three is you cannot do this well.

I do this for a living and I'm pretty good at it and I've been doing it for 30 years and it's hard.

hard and it's getting harder and here's the real danger i could right now name five things that i can teach you to look at an image but here's the problem is in six months it probably won't be true anymore and now you have this false sense of confidence right i call it the arrogance ignorance problem right you got to understand that this is incredibly hard you are not well suited to do this it's sort of like saying how do you teach somebody to give themselves surgery

You don't.

You go to a doctor who went to medical school.

That's what you do.

You leave this to professionals.

You're not going to be an investigative journalist.

I hate to tell you this.

Do what you do well and let other people do what they do well.

And trust that they're going to do their best to get you information.

That's it.

I've never heard the cow in the cow barn, by the way.

I'm from Texas.

Okay, that's where it came from.

That's why.