A border fence. There are border guards on one side, and a large crowd on the other side.
The crowd is likely to be fleeing people who are stopped by the border fence. The picture is reminiscent of the years 2015 and 2016, when many people fled to Europe and Hungary built a border fence on Serbia's border to prevent refugees from entering/transiting ( compare ).
Now this photo has appeared with the sentence “Just received from Hungary, it’s starting again!!” is provided. The photo was published on May 20, 2018, among other things, and is problematic on two different levels:
- What's going to happen again?
- Is the picture from “just now”?
Briefly about the “here we go again” situation: There are currently no figures that prove in any way that there are currently as many asylum applications as in 2016. On the contrary, the official figures show a comparatively low number of initial applications. In a current article from May 16, 2018 from the Federal Agency for Civic Education you can find out:
In 2015, 476,649 people applied for asylum in Germany. Between January and December 2017, the Federal Office accepted a total of 222,683 asylum applications . In the current year 2018 there were 63,972 applications .
The statistics embedded there also show that new initial applications have declined sharply since September 2016.
Briefly for information: These are the official figures on asylum in Germany. These are collected and published by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). In addition to the numbers of registered asylum seekers and asylum applications submitted, this also includes data on countries of origin, age groups and decision rates, which the BAMF publishes monthly in its asylum business reports and asylum business statistics .
The age of the image
How can you find out whether a picture like this might be a little older? The image search on Google helps and shows an astonishing result: The image was already used in 2016 ( compare ), but there are hardly any references. There is a special reason for this: the photo was mirrored ( compare ). This is a little trick that is often used when you want to disguise the origin of an image.
And that's exactly what happened here, if you remove the reflection from the image, then you will find this image in its correct representation and also in its historically correct environment. The picture was published in various places on September 15, 2015, for example on Vol.at about this photo:
Hungary is closing the borders:
After Hungary closed the 175 kilometer long border fence with Serbia on Monday evening, the refugees gathered on the Serbian side today. There were also the first arrests due to immigration laws that have been tightened since today. The Hungarian government also wants to begin preparatory work for extending the border fence towards Romania.
also wrote about this photo on September 15, 2015:
Hungary wants to secure further parts of its territory with a fence - now also along the border with its EU neighbor Romania .
That's how it's done!
You can open the image search on Google either directly via the address https://www.google.at/imghp or alternatively via the search engine's homepage by clicking on the term “Images” in the top right. A slightly different input area then opens (in both cases). You will find the note “Google Images” and a small symbol in the shape of a camera appears in the input field.
Welcome, you've come to the right place. The web search for images begins here. Next we need to load an image into this search.
This is how you get an image into the search engine:
Drag and drop
This requires 2 browser windows, or better yet 2 browser tabs, in advance. One contains the image and the other contains the search engine. Click on the desired image with the left mouse button and keep the mouse button pressed. Now move the mouse pointer to the tab for the search engine window while still holding down the mouse button. This is activated by simply moving the mouse pointer while holding down the mouse button. Now move the mouse pointer to the search field and only then release the left mouse button. You basically threw the image into the search field with the mouse.
Upload
A second variant is a temporary download. You briefly save the desired image on your hard drive, go to the search engine, tap on the photo symbol there and select the “Upload image” function. Now all you have to do is select the desired image from the hard drive. For this it is also helpful to have a screenshot program installed Greenshot These saved screenshots can be conveniently loaded at this point.
right mousekey
Very convenient: The Google Chrome browser, as well as its relatives, now have a built-in selection point for image searches. You simply right-click on the image you are looking for and select “Search for this image in Google” in the dialog window that opens. This is actually the easiest way, but not every browser supports it.
The real task: evaluate results!
No matter how you send an image into the image search: you will almost always get a result. But these results only say whether and where the image you are looking for still appears. If you are looking for the original use or the original information about an image, you have to search for the most original version of the image and sort it accordingly. There are a few rules of thumb that you can use to evaluate images:
- the older the site, the more original
- the higher resolution the image, the more original
- the larger the image detail, the more original
For this search you use the filters with which you can search for the oldest location using the box principle. Here's a hint: You don't just start one search, but end up doing several in a row, with increasingly fine-tuned filter settings based on the previous search results. As already mentioned, practice is everything here!
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