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29 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Together with @ForensicArchi, we have verified and mapped over 1,000 incidents of police violence against protesters in the United States. We found widespread and systematic violence against unarmed civilians. bellingcat.com/news/americas/…
@ForensicArchi In June, we visualized 150 instances of violence against journalists at the protests. Since then, the protests, and the backlash from law enforcement, have continued, with little to no accountability for the officers involved. bellingcat.com/news/americas/…
@ForensicArchi With the help of other researchers (such as @greg_doucette) we collected data from social media, verifying each incident down to the exact coordinates. We are making the dataset that informed this platform publicly available, and you can view it here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
To read more about our methodology, outreach, and ethical considerations, please view our mission statement for this platform. staging.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/upl…
The @guardian has just published an article in conjunction with this platform release, analyzing some of the patterns that their team found in our dataset: theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o…

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26 Oct
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23 Oct
We've published a new, major investigation (along with @the_ins_ru, @derspiegel, and @SvobodaRadio) into the cooperation between the GRU's military unit 29155 and two research centers to develop and deploy chemical weapons -- including Novichok.
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22 Oct
The U.S. Justice Department charged six Russians with hacking charges last week, accusing them of working for the GRU. Turns out, three of these hackers registered their car to the same imaginary apartment in Moscow... along with 46 other people.
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