Alphabet’s Jigsaw unveils a tool to help journalists spot deepfakes and manipulated images

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Alphabet’s Jigsaw subsidiary has revealed a new tool that’s intended to help journalists more easily spot deepfakes and manipulated images. The tool, called Assembler, uses “detectors” to analyze an image or deepfake; determine if it’s authentic; and if it’s not, inform the user where the image may have been manipulated.Assembler’s detectors can see things like an image pasted over another or changes to image brig