When a 2,000-pound bomb detonates, it creates a blastwave that can harm people up to 3,000 feet away. Our Visual Investigation suggests Israel routinely dropped this bomb in the area south of Wadi Gaza - the place it had repeatedly told civilians in Gaza to move to for safety. nytimes.com/video/world/10… Sometimes 2,000-pound bombs leave craters in the ground where they strike that are approximately 40ft in diameter. Leveraging this fact, we trained an object detection AI algorithm to find craters visible in satellite imagery of south Gaza

OSINT 🧵: A method @AricToler, @riley_mellen, I and others used to find sources in our recent coverage of Jack Teixeira (JT). This piece didn't quote members of Thug Shaker Central (TCS), because it focused on JTs posts on another Discord server, but...
nytimes.com/2023/05/06/us/… ... we still spoke to members of TCS for it. To find new members, we started with JT's and other members of TCS's Steam accounts which we knew from prior reporting, incl looking for Discord users on Steam. We had Discord usernames from screenshots TCS members released themselves:

NEW: We worked with the artificial intelligence company Synthetaic to detect and analyze the Chinese balloon in satellite imagery. This allowed us to track the movement of the balloon itself, not just its expected path based on weather projections
nytimes.com/interactive/20… This story was @muyixiao's brainchild and I was glad, along with Eleanor Lutz, @ckoettl and @julianbarnes to help bring it to life. Additional reporting and production by @thejudsonjones and @JamesSurdam. Editing of the confusing material in here by @malachybrowne @christinezhang