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Eliot Higgins
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It feels like all the social media companies are having a go at open source investigators this week, first Facebook with graph search, then Twitter with shutting down open source investigator accounts, now YouTube has banned Bellingcat's YouTube channel:
2 years ago YouTube suspended my other YouTube account that was used for my old blog, after lots of back and forth they finally restored it, so it's not like they don't know who Bellingcat is.
I'd personally preferred to have spent the day preparing our new MH17 report and working on more pressing issues, but now I guess I get to spend my time trying to get the channel restored instead. Thanks, YouTube.
Maybe I should have posted a bunch of conspiracy theories on it, seems YouTube doesn't give a shit about those, and actively promotes them.
YouTube has now restored the channel, which you can view here youtube.com/channel/UCFl-G…
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Whenever I'm filming an interview & they want some footage of me typing for whatever, instead of typing random letters I write confessions to the various conspiracy theories I'm accused of being part of just in case any of those obsessive loonies are checking what I'm typing.
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It appears Twitter is suspending accounts that are doing open source reporting, in particular those focused on the activities of the Indian Air Force, reporting information from sites like @flightradar24. @IntelCrab, mentioned below, has also now been suspended.
It's not been a great couple of weeks for social media companies & open source investigators. 1st Facebook disables graph searches, an extremely useful tool for open source investigators, now Twitter is cracking down on them, apparently at the behest of governments.
With situations like this it would be great if Twitter had a clear policy on what open source material is forbidden on their platform, and if there's a consistent policy with governments on this issues.
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Seems like Nikita Mikhalkov, Russian film maker & head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union is into some series Pepe De Silva shit with Bellingcat. He starts his video noting Bellingcat was founded 2 days before MH17 was shot down, & pull out this
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