Hello. Myself, @Yaolri & @iayongwa are monitoring the growing situation in south west Cameroon.
Lots of unverified footage emerging of burnt villages and people dying in the streets. If you see something, DM one of us (our DMs are open and we will communicate through Signal).
This is one of the videos that was released today. It was filmed in Mautu. The bikes you see at the start of the footage were located exactly here on Mautu's main road: goo.gl/maps/CmqUZr4WR…
Just to show what we are doing with the footage - we're starting by investigating each individual scene and mapping them out. We're looking for evidence of who is responsible for this. The scenes here are geolocated to here: goo.gl/maps/CmqUZr4WR… in Mautu, #Cameroon.
Last week Cameroon's #Bali was also hit hard. Many locals allege the Cameroon military is responsible for the burning of the villages. This was one of the videos @iayongwa geolocated which shows the scale of damage.
@iayongwa This is footage also from #Mautu, #Cameroon. Again it is GRAPHIC. The person filming says the attack happened Thursday, 23, and says "they have killed so many people". Footage is geolocated to here: goo.gl/maps/TjsMNN2EU….
@iayongwa In this footage from Cameroon geolocated by @iayongwa, we can also see destroyed buildings on sat imagery around #Bali's main market & health center on @sentinel_hub. I've made a timelapse below of imagery from January 17 & 22. Location is here: goo.gl/maps/ec7eP6ouM…
@iayongwa@sentinel_hub This is #Mautu Village in south west #Cameroon. Residents have fled village turning it into ghost town. It was only several days ago that a number of people were butchered in its main street. The filmer was standing exactly here: goo.gl/maps/rf4CARKm4…. H/T to @FMbanwei for 📹
Path (in red) that the filmer took in the footage above. Buildings used as geo-reference points. Person filming says "all the civilians have fled into the bushes". The reference to people being killed is evidenced in the tweets above. Filmed here: goo.gl/maps/CSVgAkGN2…
Cameroon municipal elections sched for Feb 9 (H/T to @billyb2009 for reminder). Seeing increase in sporadic attacks, namely village burnings, & in large areas like Kumbo (geolocated by @iayongwa). Very important for #remotesensing atm 👇
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.