Contextual verification assesses a media item’s surrounding evidence, history, and source to judge whether it is authentic. It treats authenticity as more than a question of visible technical flaws: intent, context, and origins also matter. section 4.4
It works alongside artifact analysis and physiological or biometric clues in synthetic-media detection. This broader approach recognizes that increasingly realistic generated images, video, and audio may no longer reveal themselves through obvious imperfections alone. section 4.4
