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Eliot Higgins
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Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Neocon Antifa according to some.
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Twitter's new head of trust and safety has invited QAnon-adjacent and publicity-hungry anti-trafficking group OUR (the subject of a criminal probe believed to be ongoing) to discuss a partnership. OUR tells me and it's "delighted" by the offer.
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In fact, he barely connects the two events, because tracking a car is very different from tracking a plane.
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Currently we only have Musk's word he was followed from an airport.
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Bellingcat Discord member Sepulco geolocated the video Elon Musk posted overnight, claiming to show a stalker, which he used to justify the banning of accounts that tracked flights. It's at 34.116175,-118.160635, not close to any airports.
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ADS-B Exchange had now been suspended by Twitter. is still up. Time will tell if Twitter starts taking action against all flight trackers.
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It appears that all automated flight tracking accounts utilizing open source data from @ADSBexchange have been banned from Twitter, including @RUOligarchJets.
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He could make a lot of money from the irony purchase market.
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He's boomer Elon Musk, just further along in his descent.
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Trump's "major announcement" turns out to be a series of $99 NFTs that are ugly even by the usual NFT standards.
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the trump nft announcement is the first time i'm getting the feeling it could be over for the big man
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Today we're happy to launch our latest J&A methodology, informed by the Berkeley Protocols on Digital Open Source Investigations. You can find it below: 👇
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We founded Bellingcat's Justice & Accountability Unit in order to test and demonstrate the viability of online open source information in judicial processes.
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Happening now - Launch of the / Justice and Accountability Methodology for Online Open Source Investigations (hosted by )! Congrats to all involved - an amazing contribution to the field!
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In partnership with , we are pleased to publish our methodology for online investigations which aims to increase the reliability of open source info in justice & accountability strategies
Access the document here (launch video will follow): glanlaw.org/online-open-so
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We developed a first version of the methodology which we used as the basis for the Yemen Project, a series of online investigations into US- and UK- supported Saudi airstrikes causing grave civilian harm in Yemen. Our Yemen focus remains ongoing.
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This project has a long history - we connected with Bellingcat in 2018 when it was becoming clear that online content had significant evidential potential but that we didn't know how to properly collect it in a sufficiently controlled environment that judges would recognise
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At 4pm we and are publishing our methodology for online investigations into events taking place in Ukraine - we'll be discussing it at a webinar hosted by .
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Join GLAN and @bellingcat on 15 December from 16:00-17:00 GMT for a webinar hosted by @SwanseaUni.
We'll be launching our methodology for conducting justice and accountability investigations.
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“This piece instantly came to mind when I thought about investigative reporting. It’s haunted me.” and Annsar Shahhoud
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Starting in an hour:
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On Dec 15th @SwanseaUni will host the launch of @Bellingcat's and @GLAN_LAW's justice and accountability methodology for online open source investigation, with translation into Ukrainian and Arabic. Sign up to the event here:
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Two ex colleagues/friends from the St. Petersburg radio station I ran in the 90s met at work, got married and had incredibly talented kids. So happy to see one of them is now helping raise funds for refugees in Ukraine. If you're in NY next week - go there, you won't regret it.
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Prosecutors suspect Greek MEP Eva Kaili and three others accepted bribes from World Cup host Qatar in a bid to influence European Union policymaking in one of the biggest scandals to hit the 27-nation bloc
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BREAKING: Bank of England raises interest rates +0.5% to 3.5%.
More expensive credit card bills, loans and mortgages will tighten the worst squeeze on living standards.
More bad economic news.
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Good piece by on the poor journalistic coverage of the "Syrians to Ukraine" rumors, making the simple ask that people find real evidence rather than rely on misrepresenting unconnected events like in the Middle East Eye example below
aymennaltamimi.substack.com/p/the-syrians-
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The replies to his tweet are just full of people trying to ID the guy and making all sorts of claims about who it is based on the flimsiest of evidence. Another one government regulators will lap up.
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The project to reshape into the global town square is going really well. Trouble is the town square is now overrun with heavily armed apocalyptic wingnuts and everyone else is running for cover…
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Musk has become so popular in QAnon circles that some regard him, not Trump, as the savior-like figure they’ve been waiting for, writes Drew Harwell for The Washington Post. buff.ly/3VPFtPr
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Trying to tie Sweeney aggregating 100% public, legally available airplane data with this alleged incident involving a *car* is beyond dishonest, as is the notion that he's done something legally actionable. Is he going to sue his own jet's transponder for "doxing" him too?
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Anyway, I'm sure the same reporters will doggedly report this out and give us the inside scoop of how this came about.
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I'm desperately bored of Elon news cycles but this obviously pretextual, post-hoc change to policies to protect his own private jet info is hilarious and makes the stuff exposed in the Twitter Files look like an absolute model of considered, deliberative policy-making.
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after nearly a year of invasion, president zelensky tells a joke about the war.
a pretty good one, actually.
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I've been following real time updates to Alexey Navalny's arrival in Moscow, waiting at Vnukovo airport for him alongside thousands of democratic supporters who were doing the same, storming the airport even if the police banned entry. Elon Musk would be joining the police there.
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Under the new rules all these accounts would be suspended:
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So the people who were following Navalny's plane and posting its location when he was returning to Russia after being poisoned would have all been at risk of being suspended under this new policy.
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