Footage of clashes between demonstrators and security on Boulevard Mekka in #Laayoune (العيون), Western #Sahara. Protests broke out after Algeria's Africa Cup of Nations win last night. Footage geolocated to here: goo.gl/maps/ye1gnhoLT…. H/T to @rms_ia for 📹 #AFCON2019final
Geolocation of footage of protestors clashing with local security forces in #WesternSahara (الصحراء الغربية), #Laayoune (العيون). Footage geolocated to here: goo.gl/maps/ye1gnhoLT….
In this footage, from moments later, demonstrators attempted to build barricades along Boulevard Mekka during clash with sec forces in #WesternSahara (الصحراء الغربية), #Laayoune (العيون). Footage was filmed from this corner: goo.gl/maps/vFi6a6Y1e…
Geolocation of footage above of demonstrators building barricades along Boulevard Mekka during last night (& early this morning) clash with sec forces in #WesternSahara (الصحراء الغربية), #Laayoune (العيون). Footage was filmed from this corner: goo.gl/maps/vFi6a6Y1e…
Footage from the protests in #WesternSahara (الصحراء الغربية), #Laayoune (العيون) on Friday night shows armored vehicle driving toward riot police. In next scene body seen on Boulevard Mekka. Location of body was here: goo.gl/maps/1vcXVuGgy…. H/T @gpoL11GSk1sGMOS for 📹
Geolocation of footage above in #WesternSahara (الصحراء الغربية), #Laayoune (العيون) on Friday night shows vehicle driving toward riot police. In next scene body seen on Boulevard Mekka. Location of body was here: goo.gl/maps/1vcXVuGgy….
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This video, reportedly showing an Israeli woman kidnapped, beaten and taken into Gaza, was filmed from Al Shuja-iyyah St in Gaza at about 10am this morning.
Verification of the location can be confirmed through the location of the minaret in the background, white dome in the near ground, and then the angle of the orange roof in comparison to the street.
Location: 31.503462, 34.466569.
Shadows seen in the footage, indicate that the sun had to have been at a position to cast those shadows in line, or just off, the same angle as the street at 10am, or just before 10am.
Lots of smoke rising over the skyline of Khartoum today as clashes continue between RSF and SAF forces in different areas of the city.
People in Sudan have shared these flyers in a plea for help over what's happening with a water purification plant that services a lot of Khartoum with clean water.
It has been badly damaged and safe access needs to be granted to allow for repairs to be made to the plant.
The water treatment plant in Bahri appears to have been damaged in the initial wave of bombings in Khartoum. In satellite imagery on Google Earth from April 15 we can see a fire in the area, imagery from @planet on April 19 published by @hrw at least one building damaged.
The findings are based on data collected from Twitter and Telegram, looking at more than 1585 accounts and 480 channels and running follow up searches on numerous platforms.
Data was collected using keywords: Khokhols, Hohols and iterations used as anti-Ukrainian national slurs
The terms were selected given their prominence in Google Search trends. For example, the screenshot below shows the increase in the search of the term Khokhol which surged significantly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Last week I spoke at @journalismfest on how open-source intelligence is used to combat propaganda and uncover new information during Russia's war on Ukraine. Thank you for having me.
I promised to share a list of links to tools and sources. Here it is (I hope it helps) 👇
I often share digital investigation skills, cases and sources at events to help remotely answer core questions such as:
WHERE & WHEN did it happen?
WHAT happened?
WHO is responsible?
And HOW can it be visualised?
So let's start with the case studies.
1: EyesonRussia.org - our community effort to document, verify and map Russia's invasion of Ukraine and share this info with the world.
This is a running thread of satellite imagery showing the destruction seen in Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes. #turkeyearthquake2023
In a few hours I pulled 3000+ tweets using China location tags #北京, #杭州 & #重庆. These tags are dens of spam.
Red lines indicate interactions between accounts (generally normal activity). Orange nodes are lone accounts, almost all of which spam the tags with dating ads.
A quick summary on the accounts created seen in the network graph above.
- 555 of the accounts were made in Nov
- 463 made in Oct
- many have zero or few followers
- many mention "high end silk" ads in different ways.
That's just out of the 3000 I collected. But so many more
Here is what that spammy content looks like, over and over again.
For journalists or researchers looking up what's happening in China at specific locations. This is what they're wading through.
Happy to share the data with legitimate researchers online activity.