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Journalist. Editor
@Bellingcat.com
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@jskstanford.bsky.social
alum
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...
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AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt
As generative AI makes fabrication easier and detection harder, experts must evolve its methods, invest in contextual expertise, and adopt transparent workflows.
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-undermining-osints-core-assumptions-heres-how-journalists-should-adapt
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Eliot Higgins
16 days ago
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...
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Investigating the Impact of US-Israeli Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Programme - bellingcat
Bellingcat, FRONTLINE (PBS), The Washington Post and Evident Media examine the impact of strikes on Iran’s nuclear programme.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12/17/israel-iran-nuclear-strikes-usa-us-conflict-weapons
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Bellingcat
17 days ago
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.
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Bellingcat
21 days ago
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...
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Russia’s Smuggled Grain Finds New Market in Saudi Arabia - bellingcat
New grain route identified from sanctioned Crimean port that Russia is eyeing in latest peace deal.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12/12/russia-ukraine-saudi-arabia-import-smuggled-grain-shadow-fleet-peace-deal-trump-occupied-crimea-petrokhleb-kuban/?utm_source=bluesky
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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
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Casey Newton
about 1 month ago
“The account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading ‘Patriot Voice for We The People’—is actually based in Eastern Europe.”
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Thinking back to how Musk tried to get out of buying Twitter as it had a spam/fake account/bot problem
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Benjamin Strick
about 1 month ago
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.
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derek guy
about 1 month ago
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.
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Bellingcat
2 months ago
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...
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Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10/31/illinois-immigration-protests/?utm_source=bluesky
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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
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There is no greater game than football
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Adam Serwer
about 2 months ago
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.
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There’s no way Paul goes through with this fight
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...
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Anthony Joshua v Jake Paul fight scheduled for 19 December
YouTuber Jake Paul will fight ex-world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in a professional bout in December.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/cwyprrlww9do
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Logan Williams
2 months ago
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
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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
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@godin.bsky.social
& Youri van der Weide) produced to track Russian ships surreptitiously exporting grain from occupied Crimea
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Bellingcat
2 months ago
New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
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Bellingcat
2 months ago
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...
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Russia’s Grain Smuggling Fleet Continues Undeterred - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged vessel exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10/23/russias-grain-smuggling-fleet-continues-undeterred/?utm_source=bluesky
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Christiaan Triebert
3 months ago
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
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The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/world/middleeast/assad-regime-syria-exodus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.o4D8.8TC0WR76K8Pu&smid=url-share
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JSK Fellowships at Stanford
3 months ago
Apply now for the JSK Journalism Fellowships and join a network of journalists shaping what’s next. Deadline: Dec 3.
buff.ly/a2mE59q
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Bellingcat
3 months ago
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...
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Australian Cocaine Pilot Killed in Brazil Plane Crash Linked to Kinahan Drug Cartel - bellingcat
An Australian pilot who died when his plane crashed in Brazil during a failed drug run has links to an alleged Kinahan cartel associate who is facing drugs charges in Western Australia.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09/27/australian-cocaine-pilot-killed-in-brazil-plane-crash-linked-to-kinahan-drug-cartel/?utm_source=bluesky
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Foeke Postma
5 months ago
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
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Jim Waterson
5 months ago
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.
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Evident Media
6 months ago
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?...
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Masked, Armed, Forceful: Finding Patterns in California Immigration Raids
YouTube video by Evident Media
https://youtu.be/6BuxaVdv7po?si=dgTqdAMoslIC43so
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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
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Tariq Panja
6 months ago
⚽️🧨💰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...
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The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/world/middleeast/emirates-manchester-city-soccer-sudan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.2Bdy.d2lAuOYwmi8M&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The Ferret
6 months ago
The Ferret is delighted to join the Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org – Scotland's first and only member!
bit.ly/3IcWW28
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GIJN Welcomes 12 New Members, from Cyprus to Eswatini
New members include organizations probing cross-border abuses or promoting civic engagement, as well as digging into environmental and human rights violations.
https://bit.ly/3IcWW28
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Nieman Lab
7 months ago
Social media displaces TV as the top way Americans get news.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...
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For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source
Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-the-first-time-social-media-overtakes-tv-as-americans-top-news-source/
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Data & Society
7 months ago
“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...
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What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/06/artificial-intelligence-illiteracy/683021/?gift=-c-YOpK2gRvpYnA-bE5KrLFj2S5YEuMDK6eq948t9Yw
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Poor Federico Dimarco. Worst performance in a
#ChampionsLeague
final since Linkin Park
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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
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7 months ago
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Global Investigative Journalism Network
7 months ago
📊 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
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gijn.org
From Flammable Buildings to Slavery’s Hidden Legacy to Tainted Groundwater: Projects from 10 Countries Win GIJN’s 2025 Sigma Awards
https://twp.ai/9PSyXj
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Global Investigative Journalism Network
8 months ago
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
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gijn.org
Journalists as Founders — Intrepid Pioneers or Reluctant Managers?
https://twp.ai/9PSaPi
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Bellingcat
8 months ago
Latest: How a deepfake video infiltrated Indian media coverage of the escalating India and Pakistan conflict…
www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...
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India-Pakistan Conflict: How a Deepfake Video Made it Mainstream - bellingcat
A manipulated video falsely claiming to show a General in the Pakistani army stating two of its fighter jets had been shot down was picked up and spread by Indian media outlets.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2025/05/09/india-pakistan-conflict-how-a-deepfake-video-made-it-mainstream/?utm_source=bluesky
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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
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8 months ago
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Donie O’Sullivan
8 months ago
Why it’s time we change how we talk about conspiracy theories
www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/p...
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Why it’s time we change how we talk about conspiracy theories | CNN Politics
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, who interviews people with crazy beliefs, reflects on some of his own.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/politics/persuadable-podcast-conspiracy-theories-essay?cid=ios_app
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Ed Zitron
8 months ago
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Tim Onion
8 months ago
lol this is patently ridiculous, almost Inception levels of not giving an independent journalist credit. Subscribe to The Handbasket:
www.thehandbasket.co
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Sergio olmos
8 months ago
We made a documentary about these Border Patrol raids With
@evidentmedia.org
&
@bellingcat.com
youtu.be/m93xbICwsSM?...
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Sergio olmos
8 months ago
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
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Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: 'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin'
'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,' a judge said in ordering the Border Patrol to halt warrantless sweeps in California.
https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/
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Bellingcat
8 months ago
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...
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Open Sources Show Myanmar Junta Airstrike Damages Despite Post-Earthquake Ceasefire - bellingcat
Photo: Reuters
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04/29/open-sources-show-myanmar-junta-airstrike-damages-despite-post-earthquake-ceasefire/?utm_source=bluesky
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leon
8 months ago
“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”
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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...
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Number of UK consumers streaming sports illegally has gone ‘through the roof’, police say
Enforcement resources directed at gangs at the top rather than consumers who flout law
https://www.ft.com/content/3f49aa83-2244-455a-baf8-71b1904acd19
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Jennifer Williams
9 months ago
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
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Investigative Reporters & Editors
9 months ago
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...
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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
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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
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Bellingcat
9 months ago
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...
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What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza - bellingcat
Hundreds of shots fired at aid convoy that resulted in deaths of multiple aid workers, audio analysis shows.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04/09/gaza-palestine-israel-killed-death-aid-workers-international-red-cross-crescent-audio-analysis/?utm_source=bluesky
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Bosphorus Observer
9 months ago
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...
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Foeke Postma
9 months ago
Reminder: We have a paid opportunity for freelance OSINT folks interested in environment and wildlife:
www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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