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How to Verify the Upload Time of a YouTube Video

The Information below is taken word for word from the Amnesty International Website.

"The YouTube Data Viewer is a simple tool to extract hidden data from videos hosted on YouTube. It allows you to extract the following variables, which are most useful for tracking down original content:

  1. Exact Upload Time
    Useful to determine original video when confronted with several copies of the same video from the same date; and to determine actual upload date in same cases (can be different from public timestamp).
  2. All Thumbnails 
    Useful to find older versions of the same video, by conducting a reverse image search "

Koettl, Christoph. "YouTube Data Viewer." Citizen Evidence Lab, citizenevidence.org/2014/07/01/youtube-dataviewer/.   

     Accessed 1 July 2014.)

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