Now I don't recommend this, but if you've watched a lot of gore videos, or worked in a field that involves gore, or have been deployed to a warzone/crime scene... you can really start to tell the difference between fake and real. I binged a ton of gore videos a few years back, it fucked me up for a few days, but now I know what it looks/sounds like when someone is being flayed alive, or shot, or had their throat cut. I can probably tell the difference between a mid-level talent actor screaming in pain, and a real person who is being stabbed screaming in pain. I know what bleeding looks like, in a variety of clothing types/colors and from a variety of wounds. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that I know what actual death and violence looks like. **Production value is a massive giveaway. Propagandists almost always go for the "bigger is better" approach and ignore subtlety, because their target audience is retarded. Question any photos and videos that you see that have high quality, obvious editing, professional lighting, clear and clean audio, Hollywood style make-up (like the random smudges of gray ash that all "war victims" seem to have squarely on their cheeks in photos) an oddly good camera angle with a strangely brave/curious cameraman- any one of these traits should make you pause and examine the veracity of what you're seeing!**