Verification is so very hard

Take a look at this video:

Pretty clearly a concept video done by some students, right? That information’s all there, including the account name on Vimeo. Even the most cursory of verification checks would show that up.

So, it’s not like anyone would publish it as a real Google concept without doing the 60 seconds of checking needed, right?

Wrong.

About Adam Tinworth

Adam is a digital journalism analyst, trainer and consultant. He started his career publishing newspapers for the children on his street in the 1980s, edited student magazines in the 1990s, and then spent a decade as a business journalist. In 2006, he moved full-time into digital journalism development. Since 2012, he's been trading as an independent consultant, and has worked with everything from national and international newspapers, to small local charities.