Learning to recognise these widespread mistakes will help you judge the quality of open source analysis — or improve your own. The post OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research a...
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When investigating a website, app, or online shop, one of the key questions you may need to answer is ‘How are they making money?’ Investigating the financial transactions of an organisatio...
When white nationalists met up in a small town in north Texas to take part in yet another fight night event, we set about locating where it took place. On March 8, 2024, a Telegram channel associ...
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/03/15/geolocating-a-us-far-right-fight-night/
Bellingcat has also published a repository of open source notebooks which you can find on our GitHub here The number of open source tools out there is growing rapidly, but technical bars to entry...
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An open internet is a cornerstone of civil society, underpinning access to information in peacetime but even more so in times of conflict and under repressive regimes, according to leading expert...
An amateur restorer found slides of Greater Manchester in the early 20th century — Historical Ordnance Survey maps made it possible to geolocate the images in them. The post Open Source in Sh...
An open source database compiled by researchers lets users track the presence of illegal weapons throughout Central and South America. The post Uncovering Illegal Weapons Trafficking Trends in ...
Battlefield footage from consumer drones is an increasingly common sight online. Here's how you can use it to identify drone types. The post Identifying Small Drones from Screenshots and Displa...
A new tool helps researchers find connections between seemingly disparate websites using Wayback Machine data. The post Using the Wayback Machine and Google Analytics to Uncover Disinformation ...
A new suite of tools allows open source researchers to create a financial profile of every company traded on a US exchange. The post New Tools Dig Deeper Into Hard-to-Aggregate US Corporate Dat...