Slovenian PM and current #EU-president @JJansaSDS tweeted an hour ago an image of a #conspiracy which says #GeorgeSoros has "puppets" in the European Parliament: archive.is/supaj (via @markduursma)

Where does this image come from? 👇👇👇 1/...
@JJansaSDS @markduursma We upload the image to #TinEye, a search engine which looks for the oldest version of an image online. 2/...
@JJansaSDS @markduursma A file named 'soros.puppets.jpg' was posted on a blog called 'eunmask' in 2019.

With Google we search on this site for "soros" and find the picture on this page: web.archive.org/web/2021101411… 3/...
@JJansaSDS @markduursma Is this blog a reliable source?

According to HoaxWiki this is a 'paranoid and radical hate blog'. They share conspiracy theories ranging from denial of global warming, #chemtrails, ##Bilderberg, #Illuminati and #NewWorldOrder... 🙄 4/END

hoax.fandom.com/nl/wiki/Eunmask
According to @trouwschmidt '7 of these are no longer MEP, one of them sadly passed away'. 5/6

@trouwschmidt The #conspiracy-tweet is a reaction on the visit of an EP delegation in Ljubljana on 13-15 October to meet national authorities, civil society and media to assess 'the rule of law, media freedom and anti-corruption efforts'. (via @markduursma) 6/6

europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…
It's not the first time Janez Janša shares this picture. Earlier this year he retweeted the same pic. (via @ArbiterOfTweets ) 7/7

UPDATE @JJansaSDS deleted his tweet without correction❗️

Archived version of his tweet you can find here: archive.is/supaj 8/8
UPDATE 2 This turns into a diplomatic incident after "an inappropriate and distasteful tweet". Mark Rutte is not amused.

Where does this figure of 226 'Soros puppets' in the picture come from?

You can read it my piece for @Knack (in Dutch). 👇

For more #OSINT-investigations: follow my account @brechtcastel. 👍 11/11

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😱Video of New Zealand PM 'smoking crack'😱

#Real or #fake? Let’s find out. 👇👇👇 1/...

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On 1 Oct. someone posts a video on #Twitter.

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This #meme shows an 'experiment' on #GMO 🌽.

It went #viral multiple times in the last decade.

Do we see a scientific study by 'students in England'❓

I found who took these pictures. How? 👇👇👇 1/..

#OSINT 🔎
#GeoLocation 🌎
#Verification 📸
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1⃣ To find the original context, we need to find who posted this picture first.

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Big 🙏 for all the nice compliments I received.

This thread is a 🎁 for my new followers. Welcome!
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In this 🧵 much MORE step-by-step #OSINT tips and tricks and the explanation WHY I write my #FactChecks as if you would do the research yourself. 👇👇👇 [2/19]
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#GeoLocation 🌎
#Verification 📸
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@snopes @Knack No luck with inverse image search (Google, Yandex, Bing and TinEye) to find the original context.😢

No useful visual clues in the picture (logos, street signs, …) 😢

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📢"Jij zal niets bezitten en gelukkig zijn. Wij zullen alles bezitten en nog gelukkiger zijn."

Waar komt deze uitspraak vandaan❓ En waarom maken deze woorden mensen zo🤬❓

#SpeurJeMee? 🧐

(Met #zoektips voor eigen onderzoek onderweg. 😉) 1/...

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We zien o.a. de 🇳🇱 politici Mark Rutte, Hugo de Jonge en Ferdinand Grapperhaus. Rechtsonder zien we ook een fotomontage van iemand in een uniform van de nazi-eenheid Schutzstaffel (SS) en van de Nederlandse politie.

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😱 "LeGe ZiEkeNhUiSbEdDeN!" 😱

Het is vaak een argument om de #coronapandemie te minimaliseren of af te doen als een #hoax.

Onderzoek je in dit 🧵mee dit "bewijs"? 🧐

#FakeNews #OSINT #Geolocation #ViralVideo 1/...
BONUS

We kruipen ook een paar keer 'in het hoofd' van een
bonafide journalist 🧐✅
en een
malafide complotdenker 🥸 ❌

(Tweets met de 'gedachten' van 🧐 en 🥸 zijn persoonlijk commentaar en vallen dus buiten de strikte #factcheck voor @Knack) 2/...
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De video toont een verpleegster die lege ziekenhuisbedden laat zien. Andere verpleegsters zingen in een vreemde taal. 🎶

3/...
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