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Amid Sudan’s ongoing civil war, Bellingcat in partnership with Kenya’s Daily Nation was able to identify Kenyan-labelled ammunition crates in a suspected Rapid Support Forces (RSF) depot near the capital Khartoum. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/06...

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Ready to level up? Almost every local media affiliate offers a "Live Event" stream on their website. Find your local affiliates below, navigate to their website, and look for a "Watch Live" or similar section. Click through to that.

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We ran 500 tests and: LLMs are quickly passing the threshold of being the most useful tool out there, if you're looking for the location of a photo from scratch.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

In 15 minutes, our researcher @mabl2k.bsky.social will take on the latest Bellingcat challenges live on Patreon. Do you think he can solve all five within the hour? Join us for free here: www.patreon.com/posts/bellin...

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Don’t forget to sign up for our upcoming workshops! We have an online workshop focused on Flight Tracking taking place on June 25, 2025, 9 am – 1 pm NY (EDT) / 3 – 7 pm Amsterdam (CEST). www.bellingcat.com/workshops/ju...

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Have you tackled this month’s Bellingcat Open Source Challenge yet? Think our researcher @mabl2k.bsky.social got what it takes? Join us this Wednesday at 5pm CEST for a free livestream on Patreon and see for yourself! www.patreon.com/posts/bellin...

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This week's talk highlighted the many ways Russian PMCs are operating on the African continent, in varying levels of secrecy. You can listen back to our talk with Lou Osborn from the All Eyes On Wagner team on podcast platforms now: rss.com/podcasts/bel...

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We all know AI models can now create realistic images and videos but how do they fare at identifying where a real image was taken? Bellingcat researchers have put Large Language Models to the test: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Join us in 30 minutes for this discussion here: discord.gg/NYzeUJm7?eve...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

On #WorldEnvironmentDay we're here to remind you that open source research tools can be useful for monitoring environmental damage. Here's a short list of a few tools we've previously highlighted or used in our own investigations... 🧵

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The EU has imposed sanctions on a range of countries and individuals. Open source researchers can use the EU Sanctions Map to find out who is affected. Learn more about the site in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch

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Check out Bulletpicker - an online database with technical manuals, schematics, and detailed guidebooks of ordnance and explosive items from various armed forces around the world. More in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit by @afko.bsky.social: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Join us on Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT as we discuss how the Russian mercenary Wagner Group is operating in Africa and beyond with the AllEyesOnWagner investigative group. To ask your questions, listen in live in our Discord Server: discord.gg/NYzeUJm7?eve...

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Murder, mafia, gambling and pigeons?! How open source research methods helped to unravel a 53 year-old cold case murder... with @oldpete45.bsky.social and @texasobserver.org youtu.be/TZcWblhJc_k

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