This is a really interesting read on how AI will impact aspects of the open source investigative field (like verification, geolocation & chronolocation). It details how contextual expertise and more transparency will be key for retaining trust reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-unde...

New from Bellingcat, PBS Frontline, Evident and the Washington Post - Investigating the Impact of US-Israeli Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Programme  www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com and @evidentmedia.org, we investigate the aftermath of June’s US and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear programme, with Frontline reporters on the ground, exclusive interviews and open source analysis. Watch at 10pm EST/9pm CST, on Frontline, PBS.

An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Many former residents of Mariupol are unable to return home to the occupied Ukrainian city. Some now face seeing their homes sold off to Russian citizens

“The account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading ‘Patriot Voice for We The People’—is actually based in Eastern Europe.”

Thinking back to how Musk tried to get out of buying Twitter as it had a spam/fake account/bot problem

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

This is really cool. Including a couple of Bellingcat stories where this method has been used below. It’s exciting to see people like @trbrtc.bsky.social @mabl2k.bsky.social @nickwaters.bsky.social (& others in the open source investigative community) bring these methods to their work

There is no greater game than football

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

There’s no way Paul goes through with this fight www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...

Recent GPS interference near Venezuela and Trinidad, per GPSJAM, as noticed by a Bellingcat workshop participant. I believe this is a recent development for the area. CC @lemonodor.bsky.social

I went to the opening of this exhibition last week It features a cool Bellingcat display, showing the work we (primarily Ollie Ballinger @yoruk.bsky.social, Bridget Diakun @godin.bsky.social & Youri van der Weide) produced to track Russian ships surreptitiously exporting grain from occupied Crimea

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs

Apply now for the JSK Journalism Fellowships and join a network of journalists shaping what’s next. Deadline: Dec 3. buff.ly/a2mE59q

A small plane crashed in Brazil recently; amongst the wreckage was the body of a former Melbourne stockbroker and 200kg of cocaine. Bellingcat and @thetimes.com reveal how the deceased Australian pilot was linked to an associate of the notorious Kinahan cartel: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

AI mode within regular Google search, available outside the EU, is the best of these at geolocation now, barely beating GPT o4-mini-high and way, way faster. Will test GPT-5 when I can

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

Together with partners at @bellingcat.com and @calmatters.org we collected videos of over 100 incidents of DHS operations between June 6 and June 30, picking out what appear to be recurring trends and tactics used by officers in and around Los Angeles. youtu.be/6BuxaVdv7po?...

We published this story yesterday looking at the ongoing LA immigration raids. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we collected over 100 videos and images, mapped incidents and picked out key trends from the data

⚽️🧨💰Fit and proper person? Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social Free to read on link below: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

The Ferret is delighted to join the Global Investigative Journalism Network ‪@gijn.org – Scotland's first and only member! bit.ly/3IcWW28

Social media displaces TV as the top way Americans get news. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...

“AI is not what its developers are selling it as,” Tyler Austin Harper writes, suggesting that the abundance of pure hype and total doom that dominate the discourse are contributing to a dangerous AI illiteracy among the general public. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Poor Federico Dimarco. Worst performance in a #ChampionsLeague final since Linkin Park

I got to spend time with Morgan and @tiffany.thetriibe.com last year. Both are amazing and inspiring. It’s so cool to see @thetriibe.com go from strength to strength

📊 As the new hosts of the competition that celebrates the best data journalism from around the world, GIJN is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 #SigmaAwards. 🏆 Please join us in celebrating — and being inspired by — this year’s winners: https://twp.ai/9PSyXj

There are a myriad of reasons why reporters decide to launch their own news sites, but these enterprising journalists often face a series of new, daunting challenges. Here's how to dodge these pitfalls: https://twp.ai/9PSaPi

Latest: How a deepfake video infiltrated Indian media coverage of the escalating India and Pakistan conflict… www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...

Big story from @bellingcat.com this morning, working with @tjekdet.dk CBC and @politiken.dk to identify a key administrator behind MrDeepfakes -- one of the largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography in the world

Why it’s time we change how we talk about conspiracy theories www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/p...

lol this is patently ridiculous, almost Inception levels of not giving an independent journalist credit. Subscribe to The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co

We made a documentary about these Border Patrol raids With @evidentmedia.org & @bellingcat.com youtu.be/m93xbICwsSM?...

Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers” W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2025...

Airstrikes continue in Myanmar despite a temporary ceasefire and suffering from a March earthquake. Bellingcat has identified at least 22 villages damaged by airstrikes, 14 of which are in the regions most impacted by the recent earthquake. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

A question I have is whether illegal streaming could ever undercut broadcast deals so much that it leads to broadcasters lowering prices for legit coverage. That may mean less money for future broadcast deals ... and potentially a competitive rebalancing between leagues www.ft.com/content/3f49...

Agree people don’t know what councils do etc. But I also think the public is reasonable enough to question why the local area looks dirty/declining etc while council tax bills have gone up and up and up and up and up. Politically it’s therefore currently ripe for undeliverable promises

The Tom Renner Award goes to “Tráileres, Trampa para Migrantes” (Cargo Trucks: A Trap for Migrants). Judges said this multimedia investigation “brings breathtaking new insight to an opaque underworld.” @noticiastelemundo.com @icij.org @bellingcat.com www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...

I recall him saying this on Question Time once. He made it sound like he was one of the lads loading the blast furnace with a shovel rather than trading metals from an office in London

We published this really important story with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org this week. It details the actions of a US border patrol unit operating a long way from home and who, according to rights groups far exceeded its authority in targeting and rounding up people who were later deported

On March 23, a convoy of aid workers, traveling in vehicles marked with emergency flashing lights, was struck by gunfire in Gaza. Bellingcat used video footage of the incident to perform an audio analysis of the shooting. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

The US has announced sanctions against a Russian-Houthi network that supplied the Yemeni faction with weapons and stolen grain from Ukraine. Read our investigation in Eoghan’s quoted post: home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

Reminder: We have a paid opportunity for freelance OSINT folks interested in environment and wildlife: www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...