Thread by @BenDoBrown

Pro-Russian accounts and 'fake news' sites are trying to claim that satellite imagery from @Maxar, posted by @nytimes, showing bodies on the streets of Ukraine's Bucha are fake, but in this thread, you're going to see how silly pro-Russian disinformation attempts can be 🧵👇

Many accounts have posted these claims that Maxar didn't have satellites running over Bucha on March 19.

This is the imagery that has been at the centre of the attempted 'debunking' by pro-Russian accounts.

This pro-Kremlin 'fact checking' site WarOnFakes appears to be the source of much of the attempts to raise doubt, and promote pro-Russian narratives. The site published an article claiming Maxar had no satellite coverage of Bucha at that time. waronfakes.com/lies-about-buc…

In the article, they claim that @Maxar's archive (discover.digitalglobe.com) has no trace of March 19 imagery.

And they're right. It doesn't show March 19 imagery there. Why? Because they have failed to select the filter option of the range of nadir to show all available imagery.

One clear look at the source site of @Maxar's archive (where they got their screenshot) shows that there is indeed March 19 imagery.

So how did they make this mistake? When you open up the search filters, by default the library only shows imagery at 30% off nadir (the angle in which the satellite is at when it takes the image, basically).

They forgot to open up that range.

The results differ quite a lot between low and high nadir ranges, as you can see. This fundamental flaw by WarOnFakes comes down to very basic things.

The 'proof' that WarOnFakes, and all of the other pro-Russian accounts are using, is proof that they cannot use simple tools.

Despite the efforts in this thread to squash this disinformation denying events in Bucha, the WarOnFakes reports are still being amplified by impactful accounts. For example, this Hollywood director.

Many asked for this 'debunking' and context around Bucha in a report, so we've written it up and have also addressed claims that the shadows were wrong in the satellite imagery and show how these narratives were amplified by the Russian Government info-res.org/post/disinform…

We've also obtained satellite imagery from @planet dated March 21 that matches the location of the bodies seen in the @Maxar imagery over Bucha. As extra proof, we now also have drone footage of the site from March 25 seen in the linked tweet

It's clear that this isn't the only time WarOnFakes has amplified propaganda about Bucha, and there's clear signs that the Russian Government supports those narratives. More seen in our report: info-res.org/post/disinform… and @DeutscheWelle dw.com/en/ukraine-war…

@DeutscheWelle Wondering when the domain WarOnFakes.com, or at least the url promoting disinformation on Bucha (waronfakes.com/bucha/?p=121) will be flagged by platforms for false information like the example below.

This thread & report show the info is wrong info-res.org/post/disinform…