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#OSINT analyst & trainer | interest in #terrorism #extremism #online #python | former @NBCNews | co-founder @osintcurious | from 🇩🇪 Nürnberg | roots 🇭🇺 |
Jun 2, 2020 18 tweets 10 min read
Videos of brick piles near protest sites are circulating on socials, pushing a narrative that they were "put their on purpose to escalate violence".

If u see any of these, please DM them to me. We @NBC_VC are currently looking into these and debunking them one by one #OSINT Thanks to everyone who sent me more examples! My DMs are still open.

In the meantime, let's have a look at some of these claims.

I start with this one, which was widely shared on Twitter. It claims "the gov is trying to set people up"
Jul 18, 2018 6 tweets 3 min read
#OSINT tool:
This is a short thread on how to use Microsoft's Video Indexer (VI) to easily extract valuable insights from videos. Analysing open source information, especially hours of video footage is time-consuming so tools like VI can come in pretty handy 1/6 For this exercise, I use a 1h51m long video from a far-right rally in London (Sat 14 Jul), which I downloaded from YouTube & then uploaded onto the VI platform. Uploading time was around 6-8 min, whereas indexing took 44 min (trial account). 2/5