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9 Jan, 7 tweets, 4 min read
The Washington Post takes a look at the work of Bellingcat, in particular focusing on the sources we used in our recent investigation into the poisoning of @navalny, which exposed the FSB's involvement in the poisoning washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
Part one of our Navalny investigation used phone records, flight records, various leaked databases, and other leaked information to show the FSB poisoning team followed Navalny of multiple trips and tried to poison him more than once bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Along with that article we published a piece looking at the sources used in that investigation, including the Russian data market bellingcat.com/resources/2020…
Part two of the investigation was when @navalny called up one of the FSB team involved in the poisoning, convincing him he was working for one of his superiors, and spoke to him for nearly an hour about details of the assassination attempt against him bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
A video of the conversation, with English subtitles, is available of @navalny's YouTube channel, featuring real time reaction to the call from Bellingcat's lead investigator on the Navalny case, @christogrozev
If you want to learn more about Bellingcat, online open source investigations, and our other investigative work, We Are Bellingcat is coming in February, and you can pre-order it here bellingcat.com/book/
And if you want more details of who we are and how we operate, we have lots of details on our About page, including details of funders, our audit, 2019 annual report, and other info bellingcat.com/about/

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10 Jan
We're looking for open source images of the moment when Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick was attacked on January 6th, which eventually led to his death, continuing efforts started by @No_Nazis_Please
We are looking for images of this location, where we currently believe Sicknick was first attacked. These images will help establish the exact timeline of events, and hopefully a clearer picture of what exactly happened. Image
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10 Jan
A quick Sunday morning #geolocation challenge. This image was shared on Reddit claiming to show the police officer killed during the events at the Capitol on January 6th. Can anyone find the exact location it was taken? Image
If we can find the location we can then review the video footage collected to see if it's possible to make a positive identification and discover more footage from around the time he was killed.
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Yesterday, we learned that two projects on which we collaborated have been nominated for @FestivalGabo awards in the "Innovation" category #PremioGabo
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8 Jan
Thanks again to everyone who has submitted visual materials from the Capitol attack! You can submit any photos/videos (if you've put the video on a Google Drive/Dropbox, that helps a lot!) here and we'll get to it. We have about 100 backlogged entries now.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
You can see the in-progress spreadsheet here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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8 Jan
Ashli Babbitt was shot and later died after she attempted to enter the Speaker's Lobby inside the Capitol on January 6.

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Open source footage captured some of her movements inside the building prior to the shooting.
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7 Jan
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