@PostcodeLoterij Bellingcat has become known for high-profile investigations such as those that looked at the downing of MH17 and the poisoning of Alexey Navalny.
While we will always look to cover important issues such as these, we have big plans to cover more topics and regions.
@PostcodeLoterij The @PostcodeLoterij grant will help us produce more open source reporting on the likes of environmental and wildlife issues.
It will also help us explore how open source evidence can be used in national and international courts, advancing accountability.
@PostcodeLoterij The potential for open source material to uncover instances of environmental and wildlife misconduct was recently emphasised by Bellingcat researcher @FoekePostma's investigation into the underground wildlife trade in Dubai. bellingcat.com/news/mena/2021…
Given the canal’s immense strategic importance, the ship’s predicament has attracted the attention of the world’s media.
Satellite imagery from the likes of @sentinel_hub shows the MV Ever Given lodged firmly in the canal. The ship is so big that it can be seen by simply typing “Suez Canal” into the platform's search field
BREAKING - Data freshly obtained by Ukrainian law enforcement and passed on to German investigators backs Bellingcat’s identification of the suspect in the Berlin Tiergarten Park assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili bellingcat.com/news/2021/03/1…
Bellingcat, along with its investigative partners The Insider and Der Spiegel, had previously identified the person suspected in the August 2019 assassination as Vadim Krasikov, who traveled to Berlin under the name of Vadim Sokolov. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
The suspect, currently on trial in Berlin, has continued to insist his real identity is Vadim Sokolov, despite the prosecution stating that his real identity is Vadim Krasikov and that he travelled with fake documents. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Curious to see how online open source evidence could be used in court? So were we, so with @GLAN_LAW and Swansea University School of Law we organised a mock trial featuring @EliotHiggins and @N_Waters89 and real QCs and a real judge to test it out.
The sessions was intended to test whether an open source video of an airstrike in Yemen could be submitted as evidence, and if the testimony of one of our investigators would be accepted by a court.
The intention was to test the open source investigation methodology we had developed as part of our Yemen Project, which we had applied to a number of investigations into Saudi air strikes in Yemen yemen.bellingcat.com
@gianfiorella@LOActualControl As it turns out, uncovering the true owners of these aircraft was an impossible task. But we weren’t the first to notice this issue.
@gianfiorella@LOActualControl A 2020 US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report outlined schemes it said potentially enabled foreign nationals to register aircraft in the US before using them for illicit purposes, like drug trafficking.
Aircraft tracking has become a prominent feature of the open source researcher’s toolbox in recent years. Now, Bellingcat has created a database to help researchers track Venezuelan registered aircraft.
Built over the course of the last year, the database includes approximately 240 aircraft. Most are registered in Venezuela, while others are registered elsewhere but have some connection to the country.
For each aircraft on the database, there are columns containing flight histories, photos from plane spotting sites as well as columns with identifying information like serial numbers and hex codes.