"Top 5 hacks to find deleted websites, posts and secret changes" Guide to advanced use of the Internet Archive by Benjamin Strick: How to track changes made to websites How to view collections of archived sites How to search through TV News archives www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...

Bing Maps 'birds eye' view has a crazy amount of detail, like this US Navy base - open for the world to see. www.bing.com/maps/?cp=36....

This was an Israeli strike on a residential tower in south Rimal, Gaza City on 10 September, 2025. It is just one of the 1800+ verified incidents we have mapped across Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon & Israel, which we have updated today: www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...

Google Earth has updated imagery of Ukraine's Mariupol - which has been under Russian occupation since May 2022. This is the Drama Theatre, bombed by Russia in March 2022, where hundreds died. All evidence of the strike has since been wiped away. Location: 47.0960, 37.54871

Geolocation of footage showing site of reported Israeli drone strike targeting vehicle in Southern Lebanon. Location: 33.32583, 35.54167.

Hi! The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it's also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items. I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...

Geolocation of scene from new MI6 recruitment video in Riga - Latvia. Coordinates: 56.949748, 24.104719. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYB1...

Insane, but also inevitable. 130 TB of dashcam videos. "The CIA did not respond to a request for comment on its policies concerning staff or visitors’ use of personal dashcams." www.404media.co/this-company...

This is dystopian. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Telegram account 'MonitorWar', which accurately reports on Russian strikes on Ukraine and their paths, has created a visualisation of the massive combined strike on Ukraine that happened overnight. Note the paths that continued into Polish airspace. Source: t.me/monitoringwa...

The problem with figures like RFK Jr. isn’t just that they spread bad information. It’s that they sustain disordered counterpublics, spaces where falsehoods are reinforced through imitation of legitimate democratic processes.

Footage filmed in Indonesia's Jakarta yesterday, during anti-government protests, shows a person hit by an Indonesian police vehicle. The person later died. Today, protests have escalated in his name. Geolocation of footage: -6.201613, 106.807475

If you ever wanted to do some research, or you’re fascinated by those that do, here’s a video by @bendobrown.bsky.social youtu.be/o3YsTIfXGBk?...

In 2019 a network of bot accounts was targeting an independence movement of a country. We found the people behind it, employed by a marketing firm in Indonesia. Some have asked for tutorials on how to investigate networks like this, so here we go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Ys...

Denmark's foreign minister has summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen, following a report that American citizens have been conducting covert operations in Greenland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.

New batch of emails from Russia's disinformation campaign, which added Chancellor Merz of Germany to its list of targets, which has previously focused on Moldovan president Maia Sandu and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

This is a great piece of journalism from The Guardian deciphering a secret code used in the diary of a colonial settler in Australia, revealing detailed accounts of murders and massacres of Yamatji people in Western Australia. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our map on incidents in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Israel has been updated to show incidents up until last week. A number of these include events where our team at @cen4infores.bsky.social has visually identified many casualties. View the map here: www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...

Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine captured Gaza from the back of a Jordanian air force aid flight. The images give a clear overview as to the horrible levels of destruction in Gaza. Geolocation of first image: 31.48171, 34.39525

Hi there. Do you, a friend, colleague, or family dog, want to nail #OSINT basics: geolocation, flight tracking, hidden info, disinfo etc? I've published 40 videos on YouTube. Upside: they're free. Downside: my Aussie twang and choice of intro tunes. www.youtube.com/@Bendobrown/...

Documented cases of alleged human shields in Gaza and the West Bank CIR has verified videos that appear to show individuals blindfolded, handcuffed, tied to vehicle bonnets and dressed in military attire 🧵👇1/4

Verification of footage of human shields in Gaza and the West Bank - open source investigative analysis by our team at @cen4infores.bsky.social www.info-res.org/articles/ver...

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

Updated imagery from Maxar, via @byjepstein.bsky.social, shows the scale of damage at Tabriz (north missile base). Location: 38.258280,46.151037. Imagery is from May 29 & June 17.

Satellite imagery thread of Iranian locations targeted by recent Israeli strikes. Below is a comparison of Planet imagery from June 12 & 14 of Natanz Nuclear Facility (33.725987, 51.723155).

Over the past 20 months our team at @cen4infores.bsky.social has meticulously verified footage of almost 1700 incidents in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Israel to map and understand what has been happening. Of those, just over 50 show obstruction to aid.

A viral video claimed to show a destroyed airbase in Pakistan—but was the video real? In this tutorial, we break down how to verify viral videos using open source techniques to cut through the noise of misinformation and disinformation. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgi...

Geolocation of footage showing IDF forces firing upon delegation of EU, regional and western diplomats in Jenin, West Bank. The soldiers seen in the footage were standing here: 32.4597, 35.2929

This was a brilliant session by @eliothiggins.bsky.social from @bellingcat.com on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy. A must-watch for anyone wanting understand the chaos behind how discourse cripples systems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Two satellite images, seconds apart, on Google Earth, capture a burning building in Khartoum, Sudan on Feb 16, 2025. Location: 15.5440, 32.5818

Geolocation of footage showing units firing mortars into Tripoli's central area from in front of the Planetarium cultural landmark (القبة الفلكية). Location of building: 32.90005, 13.21783. Source: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=993...

Footage from the same location in Tripoli's streets shows the explosions that caused the damage to many of these vehicles. It is likely this is mortar fire. Source link: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=159...

Geolocation of heavy fighting in the centre of Tripoli near Rafak University. Location: 32.8856, 13.1939. Location proof and source: x.com/BenDoBrown/s...

Geolocation of destroyed vehicles in the streets of Libya's capital Tripoli after overnight clashes between armed groups. Location: 32.8892, 13.1997. Location proof and source: x.com/BenDoBrown/s...

Sometimes it's hard to know what's really going on in a satellite image, especially in this case in Iran. So I've made this #OSINT tutorial on how to find ground photos and spot the clues in them to find out what's happening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJ7...

There is a lot of footage coming out of Gaza, Lebanon and OPTs at the moment. Our Israel-Gaza Conflict Map tracks incidents in the region since 2023 through verified open source footage. So far we have documented 1625 incidents. View the map here: www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...

The town of Adré in Chad, just across the border of Sudan's warring Darfur region, has swelled over the past two years with more than 280,000 refugees fleeing the bloody conflict. Imagery on Google Earth from 2023 and late 2024 shows the large expansion.

A horrible act happened near Sudan's Khartoum on Sunday. Video shows numerous Sudanese detained, beaten and shot. One individual responsible was wearing an RSF patch. Link to footage: lnkd.in/dHdvVcUQ Location: Omdurman's Salha area (صالحة). Coordinates: 15.5296, 32.4232

Brilliant visualisation by @nytimes.com of Meta's population data from 2019-2022 to show global migration across the world, showing the movements impacted by war, poverty, travel and prosperity. Interactive here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Very interesting geospatial use case for AI seen in this 60 Minutes interview with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the use case of Google Street view, satellite imagery and photos to give geospatial understanding to AI systems. Longer clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUbx...

Analysis from the Open Source Centre identifying large scale of munitions sent from North Korea to Russia indicating delivery of 15,000+ containers and an estimated 4.2 million+ artillery rounds & rockets. Report: stories.opensourcecentre.org/brothers-in-... Reuters: www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...

The Rapid Support Forces attacked the largest IDP camp in Sudan's Darfur last week. Our team has been digging through the footage and satellite imagery to look at what happened. More in the thread below 👇

MIT following Harvard's lead here

🔴 From data to impact: visualising open source investigations | @bendobrown.bsky.social Suzanne Vanhooymissen 🎥 Live & On Demand > https://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2025/from-data-to-impact-visualising-open-source-investigations #ijf25

Such an honour to return to @journalismfestival.com this year and present with the brilliant Souz on visualising open source investigations. We ran through mapping, data and film-making techniques. See you all next year 🙏 You can watch the session here: www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

So excited to be talking today at the @journalismfestival.com about visualising open source investigations with my colleague Suzanne Vanhooymissen and going through practical case studies on how we make our maps, visualisations and visuals. www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

It was such an honour to present the open source film awards at @journalismfestival.com. Congratulations to finalists and winners - the work has been an inspiration 👏 Big ups to @cen4infores.bsky.social, @planetlabs.bsky.social and all involved. See finalists here: www.info-res.org/film-awards/...

Analysis of satellite imagery and videos on social media shows how the Israel-Gaza War has depleted Gaza's food infrastructure, indicating potential signs of siege tactics, aid disruption, and starvation as a means of warfare. www.info-res.org/articles/how...