TTG reflects a worldwide consensus

TTG’s Trust Test checks whether a photograph has all 9 characteristics that are shared by the most widely trusted photos in the free world:

1. The use of visible light to create
2. one undoctored record of
3. one view of
4. one scene during
5. one moment, culminating in
6. one fixed image that is presented
7. without misrepresentation and
8. without deception
9. from a source the viewer doesn’t mistrust

(The 9 requirements are explored in FAQs 11–19 in the TTG Plus section.)