Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #DigitalSherlocks
Most recents (10)
Kicking things off with our #DigitalSherlocks in Brussels
@GrahamBrookie says the 100+ Sherlocks with us this week are “the best of the best.”
@LAndriukaitis welcomes them and @jean_leroux introduces the first Sherlock challenge, based on a real-life disinfo campaign.
#360OS
@GrahamBrookie says the 100+ Sherlocks with us this week are “the best of the best.”
@LAndriukaitis welcomes them and @jean_leroux introduces the first Sherlock challenge, based on a real-life disinfo campaign.
#360OS
First up, @acarvin and @laylamashkoor lead a conversation about a complicated and fundamental topic: ethics in open source investigations.
“Honestly, it’s more than just the methods. It’s the movement. It’s all of us,” @acarvin says.
#360OS
“Honestly, it’s more than just the methods. It’s the movement. It’s all of us,” @acarvin says.
#360OS
.@laylamashkoor notes that a standardized code of ethics doesn’t exist for OSINT researchers the way it does for lawyers, doctors, etc. Because of that, she says, it’s important for the community to discuss and debate these issues together and strive for high standards.
#360OS
#360OS
Question for the #OSINT community: can anyone else find TikTok videos about protests for Navalny that become unavailable if you watch via a Russian server?
I’ve got 8 so far on #свободунавальному and #23января2021.
Nearly 2 million likes between them.
#DigitalSherlocks
I’ve got 8 so far on #свободунавальному and #23января2021.
Nearly 2 million likes between them.
#DigitalSherlocks
Background: the Russian telecoms authority, Roskomnadzor, said it’s got platforms to take down calls for minors to join the protests.
facebook.com/roskomnadzor.o…
facebook.com/roskomnadzor.o…
If you check TikTok for key hashtags about Navalny and the protests, some of the most popular videos don’t show up when browsing through a Russian VPN.
Four of the nine most popular on #свободунавальному, for example.
Four of the nine most popular on #свободунавальному, for example.
JUST OUT: new report on the accounts identified by Reddit as connected to Russian operation "Secondary Infektion".
Looks like the stories were designed to divide Western countries.
H/t the teams at @Reddit, @Medium and @Facebook for insights.
graphika.com/reports/uk-lea…
Looks like the stories were designed to divide Western countries.
H/t the teams at @Reddit, @Medium and @Facebook for insights.
graphika.com/reports/uk-lea…
This one started when Reddit published a list of 61 accounts that it believed were tied to the earlier Secondary Infektion.
Fifteen were linked to the UK trade leaks, eight were already known, the rest were new.
reddit.com/r/redditsecuri…
Fifteen were linked to the UK trade leaks, eight were already known, the rest were new.
reddit.com/r/redditsecuri…
The Reddit accounts shared stories that had originally been posted by single-use burner accounts on websites like homment[.]com, Medium, and the BuzzFeed Community - the same ones that Secondary Infektion used.
The themes were wide-ranging, from Ukraine to Kaspersky.
The themes were wide-ranging, from Ukraine to Kaspersky.
Facebook's @ngleicher, who coordinates the company's work to detect & disrupt information operations on the platform, says such information operations are defined as "any coordinated effort to manipulate or corrupt public debate to achieve a strategic goal." #DigitalSherlocks 1/
Why does @ngleicher prefer to talk about "information operations" rather than "disinformation"? He says "The vast majority of content we see isn't provably false… Information operations speaks to this broader notion of behavior." #DigitalSherlocks 2/
"More & more… it's getting hard to tell whether it's a gov't or non-gov't, whether the operation is foreign or domestic," says @ngleicher. "When we take an enforcement action it's very important we do not make decisions based on who is behind an operation." #DigitalSherlocks 3/
Nos da la bienvenida a #digitalSherlock @GrahamBrookie del @DFRLab, un programa que promete. Les iré contando por aquí! #desinformación
What’s a Stake: Democracy: los cambios tecnológicos son muy disruptivos para la sociedad y ello es riesgoso. Llevamos una década de retroceso democrático... Hay retos, pero hay que abordar el futuro con confianza,?dice @DamonMacWilson
We’re still looking for this place in Iran. We found some clues that convicted fugitive was in Teheran. And Kish. Now @bellingcat @Timmi_Allen made from Instagram-video this still image. Does anyone recognize where this is? (2/2) #osint #digitasherlock #digitalsherlocks
Technically, this place can be ANYWHERE in the world. So look at details on the photo.
I am starting to doubt Iran as country of origin. Look at the bin. I could't find bins with that color in Iran. Maybe I am wrong. But if not, does anyone recognise this bin color in his own country? (5/5)
#MAGABomber Thread - I've been digging through the bombers tweets, seeing what info can be gleaned from them, they really tell a story:
First we can link the van filmed being searched earlier with the social media account. After the van was filmed, @thereal_mo01 (the hero of this story) shared photographs showing close ups of the van, showing more details. This proves essential #MAGABomber
Next you go to the bombers page. First thing you do is click on the top tweet, and see he's no fan of at least two of the targets of the bombs. But he's also replying to a tweet, so let's look at that next.
Aircraft spotters working with Hala Systems spotted
multiple Hips from the Vehicles School helicopter base in Hama. Hips
were sighted by different spotters on a route towards Haas underground
hospital after that, then around the area Haas hospital is in just
before it was bombed.
multiple Hips from the Vehicles School helicopter base in Hama. Hips
were sighted by different spotters on a route towards Haas underground
hospital after that, then around the area Haas hospital is in just
before it was bombed.
A useful video from Idlib Media Center, giving a detailed look at the entrance area and how badly damaged it was. Some will (and already are) claiming it was an Al-Qaeda bunker or something. Looks like a hospital to me.
So here's a geolocation challenge for you #digitalsherlocks, these two photographs may show the moment Haas hospital was bombed, but can they be geolocated?
Thread - Just spent a great week running a @bellingcat workshop, as usual we ended with two days of participant led investigations, including the investigation of this video claiming to show US strikes on Syria back in April
There’s a number of details visible, most obvious being the large pylon and partly finished roof top.
First we decided to see if we could find any maps of the pylons in Syria, but what there was left a lot to be desired, but it was a start, and we could see Damascus had multiple lines of pylons running through it.
geni.org/globalenergy/l…
iaea.org/NuclearPower/D…
geni.org/globalenergy/l…
iaea.org/NuclearPower/D…
Thread on Sputnik, and some of the ways it fulfils its official task of "securing the national interests of the Russian Federation in the information sphere."
Yep, that's a quote.
medium.com/dfrlab/putinat…
@DFRLab #DigitalSherlocks
Yep, that's a quote.
medium.com/dfrlab/putinat…
@DFRLab #DigitalSherlocks
The company which services Sputnik in the US, RIA Global, registered as a "foreign agent" under FARA.
It says its principal is the Rossiya Segodnya agency, and claims RS "acts completely independently based on its editorial policies."
Really?
It says its principal is the Rossiya Segodnya agency, and claims RS "acts completely independently based on its editorial policies."
Really?
Here's a useful document: the Rossiya Segodnya charter, which defines, as one of RS' main goals, "securing the national interests of the Russian Federation in the information sphere."
Acts completely independently?...
Source: fapmc.ru/rospechat/rosp…
Acts completely independently?...
Source: fapmc.ru/rospechat/rosp…
