Thanks to everyone who attended today's digital showcase from @zkharazian, who discussed how to track disinformation in an Armenian context.
You can watch a recording of the event here (~2.5 hours):
You can watch this Monday's digital showcase event, ran by @RuslanLeviev, here (Russian):
Our next digital showcase event will be @Soshnikoff on May 6th, with a presentation led in Russian on an investigation he conducted, and then on May 7, a presentation in Ukrainian from a journalist at @bihusinfo focusing on anti-corruption investigations using OSINT techniques.
We will have registration and exact times for these events later this or early next week. You can check out our (growing) playlist of digital showcases here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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New details of the Czech arms depot explosion in 2014 from Bellingcat, including details of a senior GRU leader's direct involvement, and details of other team members involved bellingcat.com/uncategorized/…
Bellingcat has established that the GRU operation which Czech authorities have linked to the explosion of the munition depot in Vrbetice on 16 October 2014, involved at least six operatives from GRU’s Unit 29155.
It was supervised personally by its commander, Col. Gen. Andrey Averyanov, a senior deputy to the head of the GRU, who traveled undercover to Central Europe at the exact time of the operation and left back to Moscow mere hours after the explosion.
Here, nighttime imagery from the @NASAEarth VIIRS sensor highlights bright-burning gas flares from oil wells south of Erbil.
This time lapse (captured between 2013 and 2017) also shows the period when ISIS captured Mosul.
@wammezz@oballinger@NASAEarth Gas flares are a major sources of air pollution. Combining VIIRS imagery with @ESA_EO Sentinel-5p data in @googleearth Engine, we can also see high levels of Nitrogen Dioxide around flaring sites, many of which are located near big cities
The Comité International Pour La Protection Des Droits de L'homme (CIPDH) bills itself as a human rights group with headquarters in Paris. But as @elisethoma5 discovered, this was far from the whole story … bellingcat.com/news/2021/04/1…
@elisethoma5 CIPDH, it transpires, has exaggerated an apparent relationship with the UN, issued what the European Commission describes as “fantasy passports” and even misappropriated the identity of several prominent individuals
@elisethoma5 Until last year, CIPDH stated on its website that it partnered with more than a dozen UN agencies. Yet not one of those agencies said they had heard of CIPDH when contacted by Bellingcat
@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.
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