Yang Mun: The Google AI-generated persona reaching millions in the wellness market spotlight.ebu.ch/p/yang-mun-a...

🚨 Inside Kahrizak morgue New verified footage confirms the scale of the lethal crackdown in Tehran. Frame-by-frame analysis of body bags and transport trucks matches known sites, contradicting state narratives. Read the full field guide: open.substack.com/pub/ebuspotl...

Piercing the Iran blackout 🇮🇷 Our latest Dispatch: How we verified Kahrizak morgue footage during a near-total internet shutdown. Plus: 📍 Minneapolis ICE shooting analysis ⚙️ Snowflake, Sherlock & OSINT tools 🇬🇱 The Greenland crisis open.substack.com/pub/ebuspotl...

How do you find the signal in 50k Telegram messages? 🔍💻 My latest OSINT tutorial explores using Python & sentiment analysis to map emotional "divergence" in public discourse. A step-by-step guide for investigators to move from observation to evidence. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/journalist...

How we verified the Kahrizak footage during a near-total internet blackout: 🏛️ Architecture: Matches known renderings of the Forensic Diagnostic & Laboratory Centre. 🗓️ Metadata: On-screen monitors show "Photo X out of 250" with Jan 9 timestamps. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/iran-prote...

🇮🇷 With #Iran facing a nationwide internet blackout, verifying info is harder than ever. We’ve mapped the state organs, parallel intelligence agencies, and forensic tools needed to verify the ground truth. 🧵 #OSINT spotlight.ebu.ch/p/iran-inter...

Das Verifikationsnetzwerk @spotlight.ebu.ch, zu dem auch der ORF gehört, hat Accounts gesammelt, mit denen man starten kann, sich einen Überblick über die Lage im Iran zu verschaffen. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/iran-inter...

A slew of other similar images were also circulating, purporting to show Maduro being paraded around the airfield after his arrest by U.S. forces. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/maduro-cap...

Websites are more than digital storefronts—they are maps of hidden connections. 🕵️‍♂️💻 We've just released "The investigator’s guide to website infrastructure," a blueprint for using WHOIS, SSL, and server fingerprinting to uncover hidden networks. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/website-in...

2025 was a wild year for facts. 🔍 From AI-generated Popes to $100k World Cup tickets and the digital frontlines of the Iran-Israel war, Eurovision News Spotlight spent the year deconstructing the noise. Check out our top investigations from a year of global crisis: spotlight.ebu.ch/p/2025-news-...

What you get at spotlight.ebu.ch: 🔎 High-level cross-border fact-checks 🧠 Deep dives into synthetic media & CIB 🔦 Targeted election investigations 🗓️ OSINT monthly masterclasses & workflows 🛠️ Technical tutorials (geolocation, etc.) 📡 Rapid-response briefings

Social media hints aren't enough—investigative journalism needs the "gold standard" of evidence: court records. New tutorial on navigating global legal databases: 🔹 ECLI (EU) & PACER (US) 🔹 Using SHA-256 to hash evidence 🔹 Private AI for legal translation spotlight.ebu.ch/p/searching-...

France 24 and the EBU Investigative Journalism Network reveal how forensic OSINT and cross-border collaboration exposed global health and weapon crises spotlight.ebu.ch/p/fact-check...

📰 New Fact-Check Dispatch - The Bondi Beach terror attack: Unpacking the viral lies and fact-checking the hero's misidentification spotlight.ebu.ch/p/bondi-beac... 📝 @maria.ebu.ch #OSINT #factchecking #EBUSpotlight

🚨 NEW Tutorial: Financial OSINT. 🚨 Learn the step-by-step methodology for legally tracing corporate assets, beneficial ownership, and sanctioned networks. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/guide-trac... #OSINT #EBUSpotlight #journalism

Debunking viral claims about the #Eurovision 2026 boycott, Martin Rowson, Poland, and more #factchecking #OSINT spotlight.ebu.ch/p/eurovision...