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Visual Investigations Editor at Reuters Former: Visual Forensics at The Washington Post
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Janet Roberts
11 days ago
Reuters sent a team to Chad to see how humanitarian aid cuts are playing out there.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Refugees feeding refugees: Sudanese families fleeing violence find little aid at Chad border
At a transit camp here on the Chad-Sudan border, Najwa Isa Adam, 32, hands out bowls of pasta and meat to orphaned Sudanese children from al-Fashir, the site of a recent violent takeover by paramilita...
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/people-fleeing-violence-sudan-find-little-aid-chad-border-2025-12-01/
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Allison Martell
11 days ago
This bracing story connects witness accounts from Sudan and data on violence against healthcare workers worldwide.
www.reuters.com/world/sudan-...
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Hospital massacre caps a long series of attacks on healthcare in war-torn Sudan
Almost 500 patients, their relatives and others were killed at al-Fashir's last functioning hospital during the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces' recent takeover of the Sudanese city, the World Healt...
https://www.reuters.com/world/sudan-hospital-massacre-is-latest-example-an-increasingly-brutal-war-strategy-2025-11-28/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_social_handle_id=1652541&utm_social_post_id=611201482&utm_medium=Social&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter
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Allison Martell
22 days ago
Yesterday we published a visual investigation about civilian ships in China that are training to invade Taiwan. This thread is about how we did it.
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
#OSINT
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Shadow navy: How China's civilian fleet could be a potent weapon in a Taiwan invasion
A Reuters visual investigation of China's annual naval exercises off the Chinese coast opposite Taiwan shows how Beijing's
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CHINA/TAIWAN-INVASION/zjpqdekmlvx/
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Allison Martell
22 days ago
Our story about China's shadow navy is featured on the Reuters World News podcast today.
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
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Allison Martell
23 days ago
New visual investigation: China's shadow navy trains to take Taiwan
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
#OSINT
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Shadow navy: How China's civilian fleet could be a potent weapon in a Taiwan invasion
A Reuters visual investigation of China's annual naval exercises off the Chinese coast opposite Taiwan shows how Beijing's
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CHINA/TAIWAN-INVASION/zjpqdekmlvx/
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Janet Roberts
23 days ago
It’s known that China is using ferries and other civilian vessels to prepare for an invasion of Taiwan. Reuters reporters wondered: Could we track vessels from the sky and learn more about China’s military strategy? The answer is yes. Here's how we did it:
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
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Shadow navy: How China's civilian fleet could be a potent weapon in a Taiwan invasion
A Reuters visual investigation of China's annual naval exercises off the Chinese coast opposite Taiwan shows how Beijing's
https://tinyurl.com/yn4665ey
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Matthew Hay Brown
9 months ago
Trump’s global funding cuts leave a void in Africa for China and Russia to exploit //
@khoureld.bsky.social
and
@robyndixon.bsky.social
report with
@sarahcahlan.bsky.social
Cate Cadell and
@ilyushina.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Trump’s global funding cuts leave a void in Africa for rivals to exploit
America’s vanishing presence in Africa has upended critical programs, severed relationships and left a vacuum that Russia and China will look to capitalize on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/trump-aid-cuts-africa-russia-china/
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The Washington Post
9 months ago
A page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in 1945. The page, along with many others about minority service members, has now been erased.
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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/03/17/pentagon-dei-native-american-iwo-jima/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Arelis R. Hernández
9 months ago
In today’s
@washingtonpost.com
my random encounter w/a man running from a Mexican cartel leads us to ask deep questions about asylum just as our nation is rethinking its decades-long commitment to offering refuge to the world:
wapo.st/4ieCQBP
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“Mali was really a black box,” said Lou Osborn, the founder of All Eyes on Wagner. “The images we saw of Wagner in the country were not from Russians. Now Russians are communicating.” Latest from
@rchason.bsky.social
& I
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Russia’s Wagner mercenaries are leading a campaign of terror in Mali
Fighting alongside Malian soldiers, Wagner mercenaries have massacred civilians and burned their villages in northern Mali, fueling a fast-growing refugee crisis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/11/russia-wagner-mali-mercenaries-putin/
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Jarrett Ley (WashPost)
10 months ago
New from WashPost Visual Forensics: 3D investigation of the DCA crash
@imogenpiper.bsky.social
@evanhill.bsky.social
@alexhorton.bsky.social
@megkelly.bsky.social
Frank Hulley-Jones, Irfan Uraizee,
@abtran.bsky.social
@samueloakford.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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3D analysis shows how helicopter pilots could have mixed up jets in DCA crash
From the perspective of the helicopter cockpit, the lights of the incoming American Airlines jet could have also been obscured by the glow of the city skyline, pilots said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/dc-plane-crash-black-hawk-helicopter-collision-timeline/
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Jack Sapoch
10 months ago
Another relevant GTMO observation: Since Trump's inauguration, the notorious Camp Delta has had it's Camp 2 completely deconstructed Built in 2002 for detainees from the War on Terror, it's unclear when/why the decision was made to demolish
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Nilo Tabrizy
10 months ago
Very emotional and excited to share a little preview of FOR THE SUN AFTER LONG NIGHTS -- A book I've been cowriting for the past year. It's a look at the 2022
#WomenLifeFreedom
movement in
#Iran
🧿💛
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741909...
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For the Sun After Long Nights by Fatemeh Jamalpour, Nilo Tabrizy: 9780593701447 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists In 2022, in response to the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old K...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741909/for-the-sun-after-long-nights-by-fatemeh-jamalpour-and-nilo-tabrizy/
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Francesca Ebel
11 months ago
“These elections are like a military operation… Lukashenko wants them to be as sterile and as silent as possible.” Explainer from Minsk today, where Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko is set to get a 7th term after 31 years in power
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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What you need to know about the very predictable Belarus elections
The E.U. has called the election a sham, and President Alexander Lukashenko has said he’s “too busy” to even campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/26/belarus-elections-lukashenko/
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Arelis R. Hernández
11 months ago
Twenty teams of immigration officers & federal agents are in NYC today as part of a “targeted enforcement” campaign. The city, where 1 in 3 residents are foreign born, has sanctuary policies that limit cooperation w/ICE,
@nickmiroff.bsky.social
reports.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/28/new-york-city-ice-raid/
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Arelis R. Hernández
11 months ago
Here’s the story we published about what unfolded today:
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Benjamin Strick
11 months ago
Today US Govt has released imagery and mapping showing destroyed structures in West Darfur in 2023. They say the RSF almost certainly destroyed or damaged approximately 10% of non-Arab settlements in West Darfur between April 2023 & November 2023. Satellite imagery below 👇
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Steven Rich
11 months ago
Trump's team has promised to start deporting folks as soon as he puts his hand on the bible so we wanted to know who was most at risk. Here's what we found.
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Deportation at ‘light speed’: How Trump’s crackdown could unfold
Trump has said he would like to deport everyone living illegally in the United States, though he has not set a specific numerical target. Who is most at risk?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/interactive/2025/trump-immigrants-mass-deportations/
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Joyce Sohyun Lee
12 months ago
Our year-long investigation found that more than 3,100 children died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 and that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended.
wapo.st/3DnIr9q
Here’s how we found our evidence.
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More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures
The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.
https://wapo.st/3DnIr9q
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Revealing reporting from my Visual Forensic colleagues
@joyceshlee.bsky.social
and
@imogenpiper.bsky.social
and Brianna Sacks and
@byaaroncdavis.bsky.social
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The Washington Post
11 months ago
The Post’s analysis of photos, videos, satellite imagery and radio communications, as well as interviews with witnesses, offers new evidence that the Palisades Fire started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze six days earlier.
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What caused the Palisades blaze? Visual evidence points to a recent fire nearby.
The Post’s analysis offers evidence that the Palisades Fire started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze six days earlier.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/12/palisades-fire-origin-new-years-eve-fire/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Benjamin Strick
11 months ago
I've noticed quite a few people resharing my tutorial on how to find and see fires from space, especially in relation to the devastating fires in Los Angeles. For those that want to learn how to do this, the YouTube link is below
youtu.be/rxxgRZptt-c?...
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OSINT At Home #14 – How to find fires from space
YouTube video by Bendobrown
https://youtu.be/rxxgRZptt-c?si=_peLMrhmCKTDUeI1
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Matthew Hay Brown
11 months ago
Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday for a third term as president without having produced evidence he won the July 28 election. A Post analysis of precinct-level tally sheets showed that opposition challenger Edmundo González received more than twice as many votes
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Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela’s opposition show
Edmundo González likely beat President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 election by millions of votes, a review of data from election receipts shows.
https://wapo.st/42393a9
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Drew Harwell
11 months ago
My
@washingtonpost.com
colleague Brianna Sacks, who's been reporting from the L.A. fires, says, "I just had to call and tell my dad his house is gone."
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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Teddy Amenabar
11 months ago
I've reported on the fact that there's no scientific evidence to support claims that you should block blue light w/ glasses. But a source did pose a theory to me once: That glasses create a greenhouse effect around your eyeballs, keeping the surface warm and moist, potentially reducing irritation.
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Sanjana Varghese
12 months ago
For nearly two years, a shadowy paramilitary group – the Rapid Support Forces – has been terrorising Sudan. We spent months collecting evidence that identified commanders and revealed potential war crimes happening under their watch.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan
Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000009893408/sudan-war-crimes-rsf.html
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Louisa Loveluck
12 months ago
“Documents are often the last line of defense against denial and revisionism. In the hands of families searching for closure, these records provide answers. In the hands of future prosecutors, they deliver justice.”
foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/17/s...
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@rawanssa18.bsky.social
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Syria’s Paper Trail of Atrocity Must Be Preserved
Amid the chaos of Assad’s fall, vital documents may be lost.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/17/syria-assad-fall-prisons-documentation-records-sednaya/
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Wim Zwijnenburg
12 months ago
Throughout regime controlled areas, massive deforestation took place in the last 13 years in
#Syria
. We did a full report in 2023 on general tree-cover loss. Will occasionally post an example in this thread of smaller areas.🧵1/x. First up, Al Harra
maps.app.goo.gl/7u7PMyEg5voC...
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Matthew Hay Brown
12 months ago
UKRAINIAN TROOPS SAY INEXPERIENCED NORTH KOREANS ARE MAKING EASY TARGETS moving in groups in the open, shooting at drones, not running for cover: “It was the first time it felt like playing a computer simulator on easy mode”
@siobhanogrady.bsky.social
Serhiy Morgunov David L. Stern
bit.ly/4iDomfo
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Ukrainian troops say inexperienced North Koreans are making easy targets
At least 30 North Koreans were “killed or wounded” over the weekend while fighting for Russia in the Kursk region, Ukrainian military intelligence said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/16/north-korea-casualties-ukraine-russia/
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Centre for Information Resilience
12 months ago
🔎 This October, CIR launched the Digital Investigation Academy, a 12-week programme for students at universities across the UK to develop open-source skills and engage in research for CIR witness projects investigating human rights abuses. Find out more:
www.info-res.org/project/digi...
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Jack Sapoch
about 1 year ago
I've been doing the
#30daymapchallenge
the last weeks and will start post here as well! Catching up on the backlog we have: Day 1 - Points Using point data from
@eff.org
's Border Surveillance Tower mapping project, I conducted a viewshed analysis of towers in the Jacumba Hot Springs border area.
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Jarrett Ley (WashPost)
12 months ago
Inside Assad's hidden life of wealth and opulence, lead while the Syrian people went hungry. By Sammy Westfall and me:
wapo.st/4gtVch1
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Assad lived in quiet luxury while Syrians went hungry
Syria’s ousted leader cultivated a modest image. Footage revealing hidden opulence tells a different story.
https://wapo.st/4gtVch1
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The Washington Post
12 months ago
Ongoing research, including a new study, suggests that dogs are able to express themselves by pressing buttons in two or more word combinations that are neither random nor accidental, the authors said.
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Dogs may be able to communicate by pressing buttons, research suggests
A study indicates that dogs are able to express themselves by pressing buttons in two or more-word combinations that are neither random nor accidental.
https://wapo.st/4gccYFS
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Louisa Loveluck
about 1 year ago
'Revenge' videos, burning buildings and willful destruction: A year of Israeli soldiers’ social media postings from Gaza provide an unvarnished view of likely war crimes there.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
by our
@washingtonpost.com
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Revenge, fire and destruction: A year of Israeli soldiers’ videos from Gaza
The Post verified more than 120 photos and videos of the war in Gaza - providing an uncensored view of one of the most deadly and destructive wars in this century.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/israel-videos-war-idf-gaza/?itid=ap_lovedaymorris
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Arelis R. Hernández
about 1 year ago
It took a year to scour every local office for every record of a migrant death on the Texas border w/Mexico. The results are devastating amid a Texas border crackdown. >1K drowned btwn 2017-23, many children. We tell the story of a 4yo lone survivor of a family drowned in the Rio Grande last year.
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Jonathan Baran
about 1 year ago
Incredible story and photos from @lovedaymorris @lorenzotugnoli @suzanhaidamous on families' desperate search for clues in Sednaya prison, Syria’s former ‘slaughterhouse':
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
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In Syria’s former ‘slaughterhouse,’ a desperate hunt for the disappeared
Families searching Sednaya prison feared that they would not learn the fate of their missing loved ones — and that so much of what happened there may never be known.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/10/syria-sednaya-prison-torture-dissapeared-assad/
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