The Photo That Never Happened: A Truth Checkers Club Adventure About Deepfakes, Edited Images and Visual Evidence

A shocking image appears to show a student vandalising the school mural. It looks convincing. It spreads fast. And it is wrong.Anaya, Kabir, Meera and Rohan - the Truth Checkers - follow the visual trail through crops, captions, old photos, screenshots, generated images and conflicting clues. Along the way, they discover that a real photo can mislead, a fake can look ordinary, and a strange-looking picture can still be genuine.The Photo That Never Happened turns digital literacy into a fast-moving school mystery about evidence, fairness and thinking before you share. Young readers learn practical ways to trace sources, check context, test screenshots, spot misleading captions and verify important visual claims without falling into the trap of believing everything - or believing nothing.Includes 16 Truth Checker challenges, a Visual Evidence Field Guide, glossary, discussion starters and a pocket-sized five-step method: PAUSE - SOURCE - CONTEXT - EVIDENCE - SHARE.