Since 2023, the civil war in Sudan has escalated into a full-scale humanitarian crisis. Recently, satellite images taken over Sudan appear to show mass killing sites in the Darfur region near El Fasher. These images were highlighted and analyzed by the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health. While some pictures have been verified as authentic, others circulating online are blurrier and show different locations, making it difficult to determine which truly depict mass killing sites and which are misinterpretations of blurry images, AI-generated content, or deliberate misinformation. For example, one widely shared image was initially claimed to show a mass killing site but was later identified by experts as a watering hole surrounded by livestock. Furthermore, how can one differentiate between genuine, verified satellite images documenting recent events in Sudan's ongoing humanitarian crisis and civil war, and images that are actually misinterpretations, AI-generated, or deliberate misinformation? Yale School of Public Health, 2025
