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Google Earth is a free web-based geospatial data viewer maintained by Google in Mountainview, California. to determine if they correspond with claims on the visual you are investigating. In this article, the practical examples of how to use Google Earth to virtually explore these coordinates and examine features, such as weather, landmarks, etc. Other auto-generated metadata that are sometimes unavailable but vital, including the camera brand and model, the date and time when the image was created and the GPS location/coordinates where it was created. In a previous article that relates to this topic, an explanation was offered on how extracting exif metadata of an image can help authenticate doubtful images by extracting camera details, that include settings such as aperture, shutter speed, ISO number, focal depth, dots per inch (DPI). While verification techniques provide tools such as reverse image search, digital forensic examination and metadata extraction Google has an option to enable fact checkers to investigate location credibility after extracting images of video metadata with specific coordinates. Most of the time, misleading videos or images are used to push false information to readers, and due to attention grabbing potentials that visuals usually have, audiences are not likely to escape the allure of visual narratives. How to verify Location using Google Earth’s Street View