Google’s Jigsaw unveils new tool to help journalists flag doctored images

Jigsaw, a company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has unveiled a tool meant to help journalists spot fake images on the Internet. The tool is called Assembler and Jigsaw worked with Google Research and other academics to create the platform.

Work on the platform began back in 2016, according to a blog post by Jared Cohen, CEO and founder of Jigsaw. “Together with Google Research and academic partners, we developed an experimental platform called Assembler to test how technology can help fact-checkers and journalists identify and analyse manipulated media,” he wrote. The company also announced the platform on its research publication called The Current.

Cohen called Assembler an “early stage experimental platform” meaning it’s not yet available to everyone.