Most Australians struggle to spot what's real and what's fake. Here's some help

Australian photographer Frank Hurley created a fake World War I image in 1919 .

He spliced multiple shots of exploding shells and Australian troops into a composite image.

Forensics tools like WeVerify will not help to identify AI -generated images, so experts say your best bet is to look for logical inconsistencies in the image.

Social media platforms have many properties that make the spread of misinformation and disinformation easier.

Images are often compressed, ensuring they're quick to load and cheap to host.

News feeds are personalised, meaning no two users see the same feed.

Less than half of Australian adults ( 39 per cent ) are confident they can check if information they found online is true.

Social media platforms are making an effort to tag problematic posts with additional context.

Meta started applying "made with AI " labels to images, video and audio that it identified as having been AI-generated on Facebook and Instagram .

A consortium of technology and media companies called the Content Authenticity Initiative propose adding a layer of tamper-evident provenance to all types of digital content.