Farida Vis, Faculty Research Fellow in the Information School and Director of the Visual Social Media Lab, discusses with Patrick Meier the importance of cross-disciplinary work to analyze information, especially images, circulated during crisis events. The discussion addresses how research of the kind being undertaken by the Visual Social Media Lab might develop broader approaches for the verification of images and to understand people’s motivations for circulating images of a potentially misleading nature. Such work would necessarily integrate social science-based approaches and state of the art developments in the field of Computer Vision. Crisis situations generate large amounts of data, only a fraction of which is examined in the immediate response to crises. Consequently it is also important that academics develop approaches for the secondary analysis of this data.