An underground site is using facial recognition to unmask camgirls. Claims to have a database of more than 2 billion faces from 7 million people. Verified it works. Upload photo, shows other sites they stream on. Could be used with social media photos to find them www.404media.co/underground-...

Tonight at 7:00 PM EST I'll be playing DOOM 3 for charity on my Twitch channel! All proceeds go to @sickkidsvs.bsky.social to fund operations at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Drop by, hang out in the chat, and please consider donating to this great cause! www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel

Since we reached out to X about Grok attempting to unredact photos of Epstein victims upon X users’ requests, we’ve noticed Grok now refusing to unredact new requests. Bellingcat researcher @koltai.bsky.social reports: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

This AJ article is wrong about explosions and explosives in several fundamental ways. This "phenomenon" the article mentions is due to the shock wave caused by the explosions, not due to the heat generated. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

*need*

I find it somewhat crazy that humanity's ability to create good RTS games peaked between 1998-2004 and since then has become a lost technology we cannot hope as a culture to recover. I'm not sure what that says about our civilisation, but I doubt it's good.

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

Bellingcat has further analysed videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents. The footage shows an agent wearing a black beanie step behind Pretti. His right arm then appears to recoil at the same time the first shot is heard.

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, on January 24. DHS claims he died after an armed struggle, but videos of the incident appears to contradict that claim. Read our analysis here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

That's just a bug in Google reverse image search. bsky.app/profile/elio...

One of the Bellingcat Discord members has made Wordle, but for identifying warships keel-fawn.vercel.app

Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We’ve also updated our animated map of the positions of agents and vehicles during the incident here with new footage published by @cnn.com that shows the shooter closer to a white SUV prior to the shooting bsky.app/profile/bell...

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

Terwijl Europese inlichtingendiensten worstelden met bureaucratische protocollen rondom mysterieuze drone-incidenten, vulden zeven studenten het gat in de defensie. Gewapend met openbare data en een huurauto legden ze een verontrustend patroon bloot. ioplus.nl/nl/posts/hoe...

Nieuw: China heeft de namen van enkele AIVD en MIVD-medewerkers gepubliceerd. Deze ongebruikelijke en intimiderende stap betekent een nieuwe escalatie in de vete tussen Nederland en China rond chipbedrijf Nexperia. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

The next edition of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference is coming to the Netherlands 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱

If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people. Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org

Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

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...

With colleagues at FA and Earshot, I recently contributed to an investigative documentary film that highlights the story of one man who left home in the early hours to get bread but never returned home. 'Soaked in Blood: The killing of Ameen Sameer Khalifa' from Middle East Eye can be seen here:

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Someone went there: "It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It" via @futurism.com futurism.com/future-socie...

“Yes, this was the first time we saw a dark STS transfer of Russian LNG in this part of the world. Oh, and CCH GAS did a lousy job at spoofing,” says Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, Inc., an online service that tracks and reports shipments of crude oil. gcaptain.com/china-joins-...

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all. Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

Our New York Times Visual Investigations team is hiring a reporter. It's the same job I have -- use visual investigation/OSINT/etc. skills to report on the world. You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k. www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

Satellite analysis by Bellingcat found that wildfires destroyed over a third of Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve last month, impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos and elephants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Bellingcat-oprichter: ‘Verbied algoritmes bij sociale media, ze vergiftigen onze democratie’

The Shadow Fleet shipping Russia's oil is already leaving trails of oil in its wake, raising the question of who will pay up if the worst is to happen. Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org. www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

Of all the best and kindest humans to ever live, Jane Goodall is near the top of my list. Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul. On behalf of the earth, I thank you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

hate to say i told you so share.google/4FfpeWYJ8kEF...

So what was one of the main motivators behind the far-right violence in The Hague last weekend? A fake antifa page that’s thought to be linked to the far right that claimed there’d be a counterdemo that no Dutch antifascists actually knew about archive.ph/2025.09.24-0...

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

I'm re-starting my charity Twitch streams starting tonight at 7:00 PM EST via @extralife4kids.bsky.social! Come hang out in the chat, and if you've got a dollar, donate it to Toronto's SickKids Hospital. 100% of proceeds go directly to the hospital! www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel

The Groyper Wars

the groypers sure seem to think Charlie Kirk was killed by a groyper

On-the-ground view of an IDF forward operating base located at the Al-Furqan Primary School. SkySat imagery from @planet.com shows the IDF first appeared in the vicinity of the school mid-August. Still there as of September 1 imagery.

🛰️ New! @bellingcat.com’s @foeke.bsky.social tested 24 versions of popular AI platforms on geolocation challenges — with surprising results. Read the findings here 👉

We're very pleased to announce Bellingcat and @texasobserver.org won this award- congratulations to @tristanl.ee and @stevanzetti.bsky.social for their hard work on this series of reporting. The winners of the category 'general excellence in an online newsroom' will be announced in September.

Something to note on the Nasser Hospital attack — there's a direct line of sight to the Reuters livestream position to a large IDF excavation northeast of the hospital. The livestream had even filmed what appear to be two IDF tanks moving in the area on Aug 21: www.youtube.com/live/uN78d9M...