After discovery of content, @amnesty's DVC preserves it, uploads it to our collaborative platform @trulymedia to verify it and then carry out further analysis.
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At DVC workshop in
@EssexHRC,@samdubberley has just covered how to use reverse-image & reverse-video searches & EXIF data to track down the online history of images. Some great#OSINT tools for this available herehttps://start.me/p/ZNLPYO/verification-tools …1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
"Not everything's an AK-47..."
@Brian_Castner begins DVC session on identifying weapons & munitions - incl military grade & less-lethal weapons used in policing.#OSINTpic.twitter.com/fHuRE5AD44
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The same with military vehicles - not everything's a tank. Important to note differences in nomenclature & function, between technical vehicles, armoured vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery & tanks.pic.twitter.com/R2C7kAv6FD
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Besides unlawful use of conventional weapons, some weapons of particular concern if they're used at all are anti-personnel landmines & cluster munitions -
@amnesty has recently documented CM use in Syria, Yemen, Egypt (Sinai) -@Brian_Castner1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Good photos documenting remnants of war in the field can hold vital clues to track down the provenance of the weapon - not just the manufacturer & type but also sometimes when it was made and transferred.
#OSINTpic.twitter.com/cjcGACYdP3
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WHERE - geolocation is how we find out where on earth the human rights violations we're documenting actually took place. -
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One way to do this is by remote sensing showing changes in conditions over time - such as in these images of agricultural lands around Daraya, Syriapic.twitter.com/VTFEyMJ25K
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The second is to use satellite imagery (e.g.
@googleearth) & GPS coordinates to locate where incidents took place1 reply 1 retweet 0 likesShow this thread -
GeoGuessr gives a sense for what this process can look like - seeking the local surroundings for contextual clues about the location https://geoguessr.com/
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I'm so glad there's never been cause to geolocate a story in the middle of the Australian outback, these are the hardest GeoGuessr rounds :p
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