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Apr 1 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 8 min read
In this short 🧡 I'll share the 4⃣ interactive maps I use when I have to verify or geolocate something happening in #Ukraine. 1/6

#OSINT for #FactChecking #GeoLocation #Verification
This map from @Cen4infoRes only shows verfied content from social media. @BenDoBrown

About: bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/2…

➑️maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/ru… 2/6
@Cen4infoRes @BenDoBrown This map from @Liveuamap is the best to monitor things which happened just minutes or hours ago.

About: liveuamap.com/about#history

➑️liveuamap.com 3/6
@Cen4infoRes @BenDoBrown @Liveuamap This map from @bellingcat focuses on incidents of civilian harm. It has a great timeline feature.

About: bellingcat.com/news/2022/03/1…

➑️ukraine.bellingcat.com 4/6
@Cen4infoRes @BenDoBrown @Liveuamap @bellingcat This map from @GeoConfirmed only shows geoconfirmed footage. It's run by volunteers.

About:

➑️google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie… 5/6
@Cen4infoRes @BenDoBrown @Liveuamap @bellingcat @GeoConfirmed Which maps do you use to monitor the war in Ukraine or to geolocate and verify content? πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡ 6/6

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Apr 2
Millions of Russians saw this 'shooting incident in Kiev' on state television at the beginning of the war.πŸ“ΊπŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί

What? Where? When? Who? And what is this bizarre audio...? πŸ”ŠπŸ€”

Investigate! πŸ‘‡ 1/…

#OSINT πŸ”Ž
#Verification πŸŽ₯
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐 Image
On Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook and the Russian platforms Telegram and VKontakte, a disturbing 44-second video has been circulating since the end of February.

The short video was filmed from the window of a flat. 2/...
➑️ What do we see?

We see a man sitting in the street, and another man threatening him with a firearm 🟨, while a car approaches (1).

A third man with a firearm gets out of the car (2).

The man who was already standing there hits the victim with the butt of his gun (3). 3/.. Image
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Mar 31
This awful picture is shared on social media with caption "a Russian girl tied up as a living shield by Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol". (I blurred the face.)

What happened? Let's investigate. πŸ‘‡1/...

#OSINT πŸ”Ž
#Verification πŸ“Έ
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐
We take a screenshot of the photo and load it into the Russian search engine Yandex. 2/...
This brings us to a post from 21 March on Zen Yandex.

There we see the same photo πŸŸ₯ along with six other similar photos.

The Russian caption reads: "The year 2022. Europe. The usual Nazism in Lviv. Now to ethnicity. The photos feature members of the Roma diaspora." 3/...
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Feb 10
Mijn interview met ex-complotdenker Sarah wordt veel gelezen. πŸ™

Veel mensen kennen iemand die is afgegleden naar #complotdenken.

Ken je ook zo iemand? Hoe ga je dan met hem/haar in gesprek?πŸ—£οΈ

Dit zijn enkele tips van experten. πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡1/7

knack.be/nieuws/belgie/…
1⃣ 1) Luister naar hem/haar op een niet-oordelende manier.

Zet dus niemand weg als 'wappie' of 'complotdenker'.

Luisteren is de eerste stap. πŸ‘‚ 2/7
2⃣ Ga met niet in discussie over de inhoud. ⛔️

Een feitenrelaas helpt niet en zorgt voor meer conflict. 3/7
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Feb 9
Tienduizenden zagen recent deze video waarin een "pleidooi" wordt gehouden door een Duitse advocaat over de coronacrisis.

Waar gaat dit over? πŸ€” πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡ 1/...
De man verkondigt een theorie dat de coronapandemie fake is en dat er een complot gaande is van een rijke machtige elite die ons wil controleren. 2/...
Wie meer over Reiner Fuellmich wil weten kan dit artikel van de collega's van @vrtnws lezen: "Hij is de hoop voor veel complotdenkers om virologen, politici en journalisten voor een tribunaal te brengen" 3/...

vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2022…
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Feb 8
#OSINT gets more important in #journalism. πŸ“ˆ

Today I gave a lecture to πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ teachers in journalism about the force of online investigations. πŸ”ŽπŸ’ͺ

Some inspiration. πŸ‘‡

#HowToOSINT?🧐 1/5
This interactive map πŸ—ΊοΈ about Russian military around Ukraine by @TextyOrgUa shows how #OSINT today has the power of military intelligence with satellites πŸ›°οΈ in the past. 2/5

texty-org-ua.translate.goog/projects/10546…
@TextyOrgUa This amazing piece by @FoekePostma from @bellingcat is a good example of an #OSINT driven investigation about πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ nuclear "secrets" in Europe.

Every journalist wants a scoop like this. 3/5

bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/2…
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Jan 25
These pictures of a pool πŸŠβ€β™‚οΈ are shared all over the 🌏, this tweet with caption "mass stupidity" was shared 1.6K times.πŸ€”

No #context is given.

What do we see? Let's find out! πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡ 1/...

#OSINT πŸ”Ž
#Verification πŸ“Έ
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐
We don't find the original context with Reverse Image Search. 😒

But we do find these pictures shared with captions in πŸ‡³πŸ‡±, πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ and πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§. We see it on an internetforum about #QAnon and in πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί and πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± language.

The image is intriguing. 😲 People doubt if it's #real or #fake. 2/...
In the top right corner, however, we see the logo of the French TV channel TF1 and 'Le 13h' 🟨.

With this information and the French word for swimming pool ("piscine"), we google. πŸ”Ž 3/...
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