As Nigeria’s digital economy expands rapidly and political tension builds ahead of the upcoming election season, Google has launched a major tool to safeguard media integrity and defend public trust online.

Starting Thursday, Google is expanding its SynthID Detector into a globally accessible public web platform at synthid.com.

Available in English, the platform enables creators, journalists, researchers, and everyday citizens in Nigeria and around the world to instantly check whether an image, video, or audio file was generated or modified using artificial intelligence.

“Anyone with a Google, Apple, or OpenAI account can upload content to the platform and receive verification results within seconds, no technical expertise required,” Google said in a statement.

According to Google, in Nigeria’s fast-moving online media landscape, synthetic media, voice clones.

And deepfakes pose growing risks to election integrity, social cohesion, and creator authenticity.

It noted that misleading visual and audio content could spread rapidly across viral social messaging platforms before factual corrections could be made.

The technology company noted that by making SynthID Detector publicly accessible, it was providing media professionals, political commentators, and voters with an accessible defence against election-related misinformation.

On the launch of SynthID Detector, West Africa Director at Google, Olumide Balogun, said: “As Nigeria’s creator economy and digital media space continue to expand, equipping everyday Internet users with practical tools to understand the content they encounter online is essential.

Google further explained that rather than relying on visual metadata that can be easily stripped or edited out, SynthID functions as an invisible digital stamp embedded directly into the structural code of AI-generated media during creation.