Bellingcat's @AricToler appeared on MSNBC to discuss the #discordleaks investigation and how he found the Odnoklassniki profile of the Texas Mall Shooter.
@AricToler As explained on @allinwithchris , @AricToler found a social media profile belonging to the Texas mall shooter. The account contained a variety of identifying details, as well as pictures of the shooter showing off Nazi tattoos. Find out more here: bellingcat.com/news/2023/05/0…
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Our latest investigation into the death of Colombian protester Lucas Villa, in partnership with @CLIP_AmericaLat & @cerosetenta , has been the subject of conversations in Colombian media. Published on the 2nd anniversary of Lucas’ death , read it here: bellingcat.com/news/2023/05/0…
@CLIP_AmericaLat@cerosetenta In our latest investigation, documents seen by Bellingcat show that at least one investigator from the General Prosecutor’s Office was in contact with individuals suspected of Villa’s killing in the days before and after the shooting.
TikTok is one of the world’s most popular social media sites and a useful resource for open source investigators. Bellingcat researchers @questiionn01@Johanna_Wild , wrote a comprehensive guide to investigating TikTok in 2020 that remains relevant today bellingcat.com/resources/2020…
New: Bellingcat has been given access to over 140 satellite images showing activity at a Crimean shipping terminal that some reports have claimed has been enabling the transportation of stolen Ukrainian grain by Russia. bellingcat.com/news/2023/05/1…
Ship tracking data appears to show that few vessels have been visiting the Avlita terminal in Crimea in recent years. However this is contradicted by a raft of satellite images and other monitoring tools.
Bellingcat identified 179 days in the first 12 months of Russia’s full-scale invasion where ships were present at Avlita terminal with their AIS transponders turned off.
Today marks a year since the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin, West Bank. Last year, the Bellingcat team unpacked the circumstances around her death using open source techniques. bellingcat.com/news/mena/2022…
The Bellingcat team analysed multiple videos and photo sources from the scene, including bodycam footage released by the IDF and footage supplied by Abu Akhel’s Al Jazeera colleagues who were present when she died.
The video footage helped to geolocate the positions of IDF soldiers from the spot she was shot and other armed men in the area.
When trying to geolocate an image, knowing where to start looking can be hard. Bellingcat has developed a new tool to make that easier, enabling you to narrow down your search area based on objects or structures identified in an image. bellingcat.com/resources/how-…
The search tool will generate areas of interest by searching objects and structures tagged in OpenStreetMap, a free global map maintained by volunteers around the world. openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.540…
If you had a photo of a town square and a rough idea of the country or region it was taken in, you can then identify specific features in the image and use the tool to search OpenStreetMap. It will then provide you with a list of likely locations within the geographic area.