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Visual, aural + spatial storytelling. Investigatory research. Feminist joy via open-weather🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Formerly @Amnesty Evidence Lab. "laughter + shared data" pls
Mar 8, 2022 14 tweets 11 min read
🧵It's #InternationalWomensDay and given the uptick in media coverage of #digitalsleuths: Let’s talk about representation in open source research!

When we use open sources to report on war, whose voices, experiences are we amplifying?

#Russia #Ukraine #OSINT #OSINTUkraine Like most groups, @amnesty is publishing analysis partly based on open sources from #twitter as well as Telegram, Facebook, VKontakte, etc. For us the focus has is on possible war crimes.

E.g. this thread by the Crisis Evidence Lab ↓
Jun 3, 2021 14 tweets 7 min read
🧵: Avoiding exposure to facial recognition technology in NYC is near impossible, our research published today shows.

We enrolled nearly 6K digital volunteers to map surveillance cameras at intersections across New York City!

How did we do it?

amnesty-crisis-evidence-lab.github.io/decode-surveil… Volunteers participated via @Amnesty Decoders, which uses microtasking to help researchers answer large-scale questions.

Volunteers were shown a Google Street View panorama of an intersection and asked to find surveillance cameras… 📸

decoders.amnesty.org/projects/decod…