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Dec 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bellingcat Discord member Sepulco geolocated the video Elon Musk posted overnight, claiming to show a stalker, which he used to justify the banning of accounts that tracked flights. It's at 34.116175,-118.160635, not close to any airports.
google.com/maps/@34.11613… ImageImage
Currently we only have Musk's word he was followed from an airport.
In fact, he barely connects the two events, because tracking a car is very different from tracking a plane.
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Nov 28
🧵 In June, The Netherlands announced it had detained a Russian spy, posing as a Brazilian just as he was about to start work for the ICC. Sent back to Brazil, he ended up sentenced to 15 years for using fraudulent documents. Russia now claims he's a drug dealer, not a spy...
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Nov 26
This week, a Russian couple living in Sweden for the past 20 years were arrested, with the husband detained under suspicion of working for the Russian intelligence services. @christogrozev did some digging and made some interesting discoveries about their neighbours in Moscow.
The husband, wife and a family member were registered as owners of the flat in October 1999, located at Zorge street 36 in Moscow. It’s unclear if they ever lived in the apartment, as the couple moved to Sweden soon afterwards.
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Nov 23
This isn't 100% correct, Prigozhin had been talking about sending an "information case" to the European Parliament, and his press service just posted the "case" as sent to the Cyber Front Z Telegram channel, who posted the video of the "case" Image
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Government regulators:
I don't think Elon Musk realises social media platforms have self-moderation to avoid government regulation.
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Twitter dying would be a really big blow to the open source investigation community. It really enabled a lot of sharing of information and collaboration that led to real impact. Bellingcat wouldn't have been able to build an audience without it.
It allowed the audience to become participants in investigation and make contributions, big and small, that could make a real difference. It meant incidents that would have otherwise been ignored ended up being investigated.
The Anatomy of a Killing investigation, a collaboration between multiple organisations that led to the conviction of soldiers who murdered women and children, only came about because the video showing the killing was shared on Twitter to begin with:
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