one of the worst consequences of Elon's purchase of Twitter was that it supercharged a fake OSINT community who ape the appearance of credible OSINT work while actually putting out nonsense. a lot of grifters have made money off Ukraine and Gaza this way
and now one of them may have killed people
and now one of them may have killed people
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ICYMI: on Twitter, an OSINTer ('Vleckie') is being blamed for a US airstrike in Yemen that killed 8 civilians.
in a thread, she'd marked a group of houses as an underground bunker — from satellite imagery alone. those houses (not a bunker) were subject to a US airstrike. 8 innocent people dead.
in a thread, she'd marked a group of houses as an underground bunker — from satellite imagery alone. those houses (not a bunker) were subject to a US airstrike. 8 innocent people dead.
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But it should not be part of the world we live in that military targets are picked based on what civilians reckon on the internet.
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/assessing-the-houthi-war-effort-since-october-2023/
all those keyboard detectives moving on to other things to detective about
I mean, I can definitely believe they did due to the current leadership, but come on
https://imgur.com/N7DwWP1
Source: sans
You wanna make money off the war? Go into the drone business! Ukraine needs plenty of those to blow up ruskies with lmao
We spend like all of our money on the pentagon only to listen to radicalized randoms on the internet.
That’s just dumb!