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May 8 • 8 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
How would you determine when this photo was taken? Youri van der Weide explains all 🧵
#OSINT #chronolocation #geolocation bellingcat.com/resources/2023… A photo of a stadium with s...
If you were to investigate this image, you might start zooming in to find the banners in the background labelled ‘2017’ and ‘mets.com’. But that only provides you with the year and the possible location.
With that information you might then start to google the relationship between brands like Habitat (seen in the photo) with the New York Mets from that year.
A quick google of that relationship can help you discover that this is likely the Mets first game of the season, April 3, 2017.
Finding out when a photo was captured is called chronolocation. It is often more difficult than geolocation (finding simply where an image was taken).
Locating the ‘when’ is not always so easy; sometimes you’re looking at an image without any clear clues from signage or shadows.
The Bellingcat team has put together a useful guide on how to chronolocate with a few more examples from our own investigations and training back catalogue. Read it here: bellingcat.com/resources/2023…
If you enjoy these guides or testing your chronolocation and geolocation abilities, join our resource community in our discord server. discord.gg/bellingcat

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