Bellingcat hosted its first ever hackathon earlier this month with the event focussing on developing network analysis tools.
Projects that analyse Reddit posts, official business registries and VK accounts were all created, along with much, much more
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Meanwhile in 🇸🇮Slovenia, former PM (who blocked me after I wrote this article: bellingcat.com/news/2022/06/1) was ordered by a court to apologize publicly for libel about rival party , which he did at 1am on Twitter with pics only
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A new investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh by and forensically recreates the moment of the shooting, clearly demonstrating the journalists press markings were clearly visible to the IDF shooter youtube.com/watch?v=BXjVDK
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Slovakian far-right conspiracist and UK resident Daniel Bombic, who our wrote about last month, claimed he was arrested on August 21, two days after our investigation. 🇸🇰 media reports he posted bail, has extradition hearing Jan 2023
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Are you good at explaining technical research methods and tools in an easy way? Apply for our Tech Fellowship and create educational content for open source researchers.
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Check out all the tools created at Bellingcat's first hackathon here. We hope to see researchers use them in practice and are keen to highlight any interesting projects that employ them
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Hackathon judges liked that it could be used if a researcher has a tabular data file (CSV or Parquet) and wants to easily generate a network visualisation without having to write a conversion script or use some of the more complicated network visualisation interfaces
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Among the other top entries was GraphNAVI, developed by Ilya Boyandin and Peter Kompasz.
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One of the main benefits of Graphinator, hackathon judges found was that it enabled network graphs to be created without the use of image editing software or a more complicated network software.
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Graphinator, developed by Alex Trefilov, is a tool for creating network graphs and be used if a researcher wants to make a nice looking, relatively small network visualisation
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For example, Sugartrail can help map companies with the same individual on their board or companies registered to the same address.
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Sugartrail, developed by Sean Greaves, is an interface to the UK business registry, Companies House, that allows users to find companies and individuals that are connected in various ways
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This tool could be used if a researcher has a VK account of a soldier and wants to find the accounts of other soldiers associated with them.
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The tool identifies VK social media accounts of interest and allows users to search for profiles linked to that account that have posted pictures matching a given phrases (such as soldier or flag)
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Among the network analysis tools created at our first event was the Socnet Dynamic Image Search, created by the developer Ulysses
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Bellingcat is hosting another hackathon during the weekend of September 23-25, with a more general focus on digital investigation tools.
See our announcement for more details. Spots are still available and applicants can apply individually or as a team
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Read more here and apply before September 30, 2022:
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We welcome pitches for all areas and aspects of digital investigations, as long as ideas contribute to helping researchers use technical tools or methods.
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We are looking for motivated individuals with the skills to break down complex technical topics into small steps and an easy-to-understand language
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Through this fellowship, selected candidates will support researchers who do not have a technological background as they learn to use exciting research tools or methods for the first time.
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There are lots of interesting tools and techniques out there but not always the simple, step-by-step guides that explain how to make best use of them.
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Bellingcat is looking for Tech Fellows to help create educational content for online researchers.
This could be in the shape of texts or videos that show how to use technical tools or explain methods from which open source investigations may benefit.
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When the individual breached Uber, they sent a slack notification to everyone informing them the company had been breached.
Employees thought it was a joke.
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The Twitch stream is starting now! Come hang out and learn about open source research, and about the work that my colleagues have been doing.
And in 20 minutes, we'll all head over to the stream! It's gonna be fun!
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Bellingcat's joins to discuss his recent investigation into the Russian spy who infiltrated the NATO social scene in Naples
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Putin is banking on his friends in the Balkans to help sustain his bloody war in Ukraine | Michael Colborne
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Prigozhin's organisation Concord answers questions from a journalist about this bonkers video, and the answers are equally bonkers. vk.com/wall-177427428
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Ex-convict and human turd-beetle Prigozhin, who sued @Bellingcat in normal court (and lost) and in kangaroo Russian court (and won) over us reporting he runs and funds the Wagner PMC, here on video recruiting Russian convicts for his "own private PMC" Wagner.
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Want to know how online sleuths use open sources to investigate crimes big and small, from scams to war?
The Hangout is live again at 6pm CEST tonight, and this time we are psyched to host from , champs of OSINT.
Join us:
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Geolocation shows it's penal colony № 6 (Исправительная колония) in Russia's Mari El republic, NOT in Mordovia: fkurf.ru/privolzhskij_f. A reverse image search on the church did the job. H/t : twitter.com/JakeGodin/stat. Google Maps: google.com/maps/@56.62943
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Replying to @pelle_ak and @trbrtc
RIS on the church came up with this 2021 link/image on "Correctional Colony №6" on Yandex — seems like it's in Mari El though, so may just be a similar setup. metr12.ru/telekanal-metr
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There's a longer version of the video. (src: t.me/milinfolive/90) In it he spends some time telling them where they will be buried if they die. At the end he makes a joke about their sentences and says, "I take you all from here alive, but I don't return you all alive."
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Ex-convict and human turd-beetle Prigozhin, who sued @Bellingcat in normal court (and lost) and in kangaroo Russian court (and won) over us reporting he runs and funds the Wagner PMC, here on video recruiting Russian convicts for his "own private PMC" Wagner.
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22 yrs of negative selection invariably led to a country where the more brazenly you lie, the more shamelessly you steal, and the more cruelly you kill, the higher you climb on the social ladder. Nothing exemplifies this better than billionaire Prigozhin & his trillionnaire boss.
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Ex-convict and human turd-beetle Prigozhin, who sued in normal court (and lost) and in kangaroo Russian court (and won) over us reporting he runs and funds the Wagner PMC, here on video recruiting Russian convicts for his "own private PMC" Wagner.
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Prizes include free spaces in Bellingcat's workshops, subscriptions to online tools, books, and swag for all finishing teams.
If you are interested in taking part, you can sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1XjRXt
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You can join the hackathon as a team or as an individual. If joining on your own, you are free to collaborate with other attendees.
The event provides an opportunity to network, learn, create, and showcase your ideas.
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Are you interested in building digital investigation tools? Bellingcat's 2nd Hackathon takes place between Sep 23 and 25. Come join us!
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I'm hyped to say that I'll be joining and tomorrow, Sept. 15, on the DW News Hangout Twitch stream!
Join me in the Twitch channel starting at 6:30 PM CEST. We'll then raid the channel at ~6:50 PM.
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