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OSINT-🎥: youtube.com/channel/UCMBPt OSINT-🧵: twitter.com/brechtcastel/s OSINT-📰: knack.be/nieuws/auteurs OSINT= Open Source INTelligence It's basically using all things #online for #research. I use #OSINT mainly as a #factchecker and #journalist

. 🤘 #HowToOSINT🧐

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May 7, 2021

#SpeurJeMee?

Onder die hashtag verzamel ik vanaf nu de draadjes waarin ik het #onderzoek achter mijn #FactChecks voor @knack uitleg.

Hieronder een overzicht dat ik blijf aanvullen.

#OSINT

#GeoLocation

#Verification

#FakeNews #zoektips #FactcheckZelf

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deCheckers

@deCheckers_be

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During BREAKING events like the #earthquake in Turkey

and Syria

be wary of old footage. 650K saw this video of a collapsing building, but they have nothing to do with the recent earthquake.

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#Verification

#GeoLocation

#HowToOSINT

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chris__759

@chris__759

An other area with catastrophic destruction! A whole block of the Antakya / Hatay city #Turkey🇹🇷 was destroyed.😟🙏 📌36.240699, 36.172895 #geolocation #earthquaketurkey

Sì, questo palazzo si trova in Turchia ed è realmente crollato a causa del terremoto

FactaNews

@FactaNews

Qualcuno ha messo in discussione una delle immagini più potenti tra quelle che testimoniano la potenza distruttrice del terremoto che ha colpito #Siria e #Turchia. Si tratta di un video reale e noi siamo riusciti a geolocalizzarlo 1/2

facta.news

Qualcuno ha messo in discussione una delle immagini più potenti del terremoto che ha provocato oltre 1.200 vittime

Did you learn something from this #OSINT for #FactChecking? Follow me (

) and check out my channel on #YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCMBPt 🙏 Older 🧵🧵underneath this tweet: twitter.com/brechtcastel/s 11/END

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May 7, 2021

#SpeurJeMee?

Onder die hashtag verzamel ik vanaf nu de draadjes waarin ik het #onderzoek achter mijn #FactChecks voor @knack uitleg.

Hieronder een overzicht dat ik blijf aanvullen.

#OSINT

#GeoLocation

#Verification

#FakeNews #zoektips #FactcheckZelf

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You can read my full article with all sources used here (

Factcheck: nee, deze video toont niet de recente aardbeving in Turkije

) for FREE. 👇10/...

knack.be

Op 6 februari 2023 deelde de Nederlandse wetenschapsjournalist Maarten Keulemans van de Volkskrant een video op Twitter (hier gearchiveerd). Hij schrijft:

What have we learned? 👩‍🏫 1) Be carful during breaking events and disasters. Don't share before you verify! 🙅‍♂️ 2) Finding the oldest version of footage usually gives you the real context. 🗝️ 3) Read the comments. Together we are smarter. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑9/...

CONCLUSION: The video on Twitter shows a collapsing building in Florida on 24 June 2021. So we judge that we are seeing 'incredible footage from Turkey' as untrue. ❌8/...

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

The disaster has a page on Wikipedia and took 98 lives. 😢 Corrosion in the building is believed to have caused the disaster. At that site, we see anno August 2022, there is no new building yet and a memorial with the names of the 98 victims. 7/...

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Looking at satellite images of the collapsed Champlain Towers South Condo from April 2021 (left) and June 2021 (right), we can clearly see that the building collapsed during that period. 6/...

When we search for the Champlain Towers South Condo in Maps, the surveillance footage appears to be from nearby Eighty Seven Park. 📍 We verify by comparing photos from that location with the video: the shape of that building 🟥, a canopy 🟨 and the swimming pool🟦 match. 5/...

Footage from a surveillance camera came online as early as 24 June 2021 in a tweet from South Florida local TV station WSVN 7 News. 4/...

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WSVN 7 News

@wsvn

Jun 24, 2021

JUST IN: 7News has obtained surveillance video of the moment the Champlain Towers South Condo collapsed in Surfside early this morning. According to a fire official, 35 people were pulled from the collapsed building. Search and rescue efforts ongoing. wsvn.com/news/local/1-d

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We see a report by US TV channel ABC7 from 25 June 2021: youtu.be/7KNwMSuwQ8w According to the title of the video, we see the "moment of apartment building collapse in Surfside, Florida". 🇺🇸 The quality of the Twitter video is lower and a piece has been cut off. 👇3/...

Good starting point is reading the comments! In the comments below the tweet, people claim that "this is Florida a year ago" and someone "is spreading fake news". The Twitter user links to a video on YouTube. 2/...

During BREAKING events like the #earthquake in Turkey 🇹🇷 and Syria 🇸🇾 be wary of old footage. 650K saw this video of a collapsing building, but they have nothing to do with the recent earthquake. ❌🧵👇1/... #OSINT 🔎 #Verification 🎥 #GeoLocation 🌍 #HowToOSINT🧐

#SpeurJeMee? 4⃣8⃣ #HowToOSINT?🧐

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3.3M views for this video by @EuromaidanPress: "American

infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland

[...] toward the Ukrainian border

. " TRUE

or FALSE

? Investigate!

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#Verification

#GeoLocation

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Nice to meet you! I'm Brecht Castel, a journalist and factchecker for Belgian magazine Knack. I love verifying viral videos and pictures, geolocation and OSINT (Open Source Intelligence). On this...

Nilo Tabrizy

@ntabrizy

Feb 2

Four months into Iran’s uprising, protesters are still in the streets while authorities respond with violence & mass arrests.

@atthar_mirza

and I looked into one of the biggest centers of protests in the country—Sistan-Baluchestan province in the southeast wapo.st/3DA8nvH

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My YouTube channel has a thousand subscribers! #1kcreator goo.gl/VptRDI

BeMilInterests

@BeMilInterests

Feb 1

Keychain of a piece of a Russian T-72 destroyed at the Battle of Kyiv in March. Fake or real? What will we find? Short thread. 01/14

Karena Phan

@karenaphan

Jan 31

Not every armored vehicle you see is for Ukraine. A very good thread on geolocation and OSINT. And not every train with armored vehicles was in Poland. My debunk on a different video: apnews.com/article/fact-c

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3.3M views for this video by @EuromaidanPress: "American

infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland

[...] toward the Ukrainian border

. " TRUE

or FALSE

? Investigate!

1/... #OSINT

#Verification

#GeoLocation

#HowToOSINT

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L₳W Tzu - Finding Self-₳ctualization

@lawtzutao

Feb 1

This is how I found out what it actually was. When something like this begins to spread, I search for the real story.

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Jan 25, 2022

In the top right corner, however, we see the logo of the French TV channel TF1 and 'Le 13h'

. With this information and the French word for swimming pool ("piscine"), we google.

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Thanks for reading and sharing this 🧵. 🙏 More #OSINT coming up in the next days/weeks. We'll go to #Iran 🇮🇷 and #Russia 🇷🇺.

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3.3M views for this video by @EuromaidanPress: "American

infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland

[...] toward the Ukrainian border

. " TRUE

or FALSE

? Investigate!

1/... #OSINT

#Verification

#GeoLocation

#HowToOSINT

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Gordon Farrer

@post_fact

Jan 31

This whole thread is another terrific eg of #factchecking/#verification journalism. Worth reading. (

and

@Lotte_Lambrecht

do great work.) For students of #OSINT, though, the lesson in this post is crucial. Learn it well, you might be tested on it … ;}) #fcnv

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What have we learned?

1) Mapping multiple videos gives a good overview.

2) Be careful of confirmation bias.

3) Every new video or image gives you new clues and a better understanding of a situation: keep digging.

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Ten huize Castel ook genoegzaam bekend als De Bijbel. 🥰

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Bart Aerts

@b_aerts

Vanaf morgen, woensdag, bij krantenboer of (groot)warenhuis: de 50ste (!) special van Sport/Wielermagazine. Wat u altijd al wilde weten, maar nooit durfde te vragen over het wieler(voor)jaar. sportmagazine.knack.be/magazine/vanaf

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GeoConfirmed

@GeoConfirmed

Not every armored vehicle you see is for Ukraine. A very good thread. 👇

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3.3M views for this video by @EuromaidanPress: "American

infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland

[...] toward the Ukrainian border

. " TRUE

or FALSE

? Investigate!

1/... #OSINT

#Verification

#GeoLocation

#HowToOSINT

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A good example of confirmation bias: You heared something on the news about 🇺🇸 military vehicles being send to Ukraine 🇺🇦 and then you see a video like this... 🤔 Stay critical at all times! 💪 #OSINT for #FactChecking

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3.3M views for this video by @EuromaidanPress: "American

infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland

[...] toward the Ukrainian border

. " TRUE

or FALSE

? Investigate!

1/... #OSINT

#Verification

#GeoLocation

#HowToOSINT

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Quick tutorial how to put geolocations on a 🗺️ 1) Make Google Sheet with GPS-coordinates in columns called Lat & Lon. 2) Download sheet as .csv 3) Open this .csv in Google Earth Pro: it finds these coordinates and put them on a map. And added the screenshots later with Paint.🤣

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Of 7 videos, we did manage to determine the exact location based on visual features in the footage (see map).

We see them popping up in Germany

(Soest and Herne) and Poland

(Zielona Góra Główna, Niewodnica, Skierniewice (2) and Białystok). Most trains run EAST.

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3.3M views for this video by

@EuromaidanPress

: "American 🇺🇸 infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland 🇵🇱 [...] toward the Ukrainian border 🇺🇦. " TRUE ✅ or FALSE ❌? Investigate! 🧵👇 1/... #OSINT 🔎 #Verification 🎥 #GeoLocation 🌍 #HowToOSINT 🧐

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Lotte Lambrecht

@Lotte_Lambrecht

🧐New visual investigation with colleague

! Read the thread below 👇

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3.3M views for this video by @EuromaidanPress: "American

infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland

[...] toward the Ukrainian border

. " TRUE

or FALSE

? Investigate!

1/... #OSINT

#Verification

#GeoLocation

#HowToOSINT

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Here you go:

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3.3M views for this video by @EuromaidanPress: "American

infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland

[...] toward the Ukrainian border

. " TRUE

or FALSE

? Investigate!

1/... #OSINT

#Verification

#GeoLocation

#HowToOSINT

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Did you learn something from this #OSINT for #FactChecking? Follow me (

) and check out my channel on #YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCMBPt 🙏 Older 🧵🧵underneath this tweet: twitter.com/brechtcastel/s 18/END

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May 7, 2021

#SpeurJeMee?

Onder die hashtag verzamel ik vanaf nu de draadjes waarin ik het #onderzoek achter mijn #FactChecks voor @knack uitleg.

Hieronder een overzicht dat ik blijf aanvullen.

#OSINT

#GeoLocation

#Verification

#FakeNews #zoektips #FactcheckZelf

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I thank

colleague

for helping in this investigation. 🙏 You can read our full article with all sources used here (

Factcheck: geen bewijs dat deze Amerikaanse tanks op weg zijn naar Oekraïne

) for FREE. 👇17/...

knack.be

3,3 miljoen mensen zagen een video van een treintransport met pantservoertuigen op de Oekraïense Twitteraccount Euromaidanpress (hier gearchiveerd).

What have we learned? 👩‍🏫 1) Mapping multiple videos gives a good overview. 🗺️ 2) Be careful of confirmation bias. 🤦‍♀️ 3) Every new video or image gives you new clues and a better understanding of a situation: keep digging. 📽️ 16/..

CONCLUSION: We find NO evidence for the claim that these are being transported 'to the Ukrainian border'. ❌ Rather, the M2A3 type Bradleys appear to be part of a US cavalry unit stationed in Poland and Lithuania for a NATO mission. 15/...

So in our video, we see the Bradley M2A3 and that type is not supplied to Ukraine. Moreover, we see platoon numbers 30, 32, 33 and 34 🟥🟨🟦🟩 painted on the vehicles in the video. We see those same platoon numbers popping up on drone footage of NATO troops in 🇳🇱. 14/...

Both are Bradley M2s, but NATO forces have the version A3 (right) while the delivery to Ukraine is of the slightly older A2 (left). The most obvious difference is the Commander's Independent Viewer (CIV) at the right rear 🟥 which is on the A3. It is NOT found on the A2. 13/...

How can we know if the armoured vehicles in the viral video are part of the changing of the guard in NATO member states Poland 🇵🇱 and Lithuania 🇱🇹? Or whether they belong to the announced delivery to Ukraine 🇺🇦? 12/...

A US delivery of some 1275 army vehicles docked in the port of Vlissingen on 9 January. The delivery, which included Bradley vehicles, is part of a 'regular rotation of troops'. 🪖 The vehicles departed for Poland 🇵🇱 and Lithuania 🇱🇹, the eastern flank of NATO territory. 11/..

How can this be explained? 🤔 For that, we have to go back to where these US vehicles reached mainland Europe: the port ⛴️ of Vlissingen in the Netherlands 🇳🇱. 10/...