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Sam Doak

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Journalist, doing OSINT at Sky News.

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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A lot of details have come out about what Epstein offered his Royal friends, less on what he expected from them. New files shed light on what he wanted from Sarah Ferguson, majority ownership of her women’s empowerment brand, and the opportunity to leverage her network.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Neither the militia or the IDF responded to comment when approached with our findings.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The route is interesting because they’re heading south on a road very close to an IDF outpost. The road they’re travelling on only leads to the outpost or the Erez crossing, meaning the supplies came from one of those two locations.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Geolocated two videos of supplies being transported along this route. Food, water, and fuel packaged by an Israeli company. Both videos ended with the vehicles arriving at Al Mansi’s school compound.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
New story with @bvdm.bsky.social We found new evidence of Israeli support for anti Hamas Gaza militias. For the first time we got a look at how the northern Al Mansi militia is supplied, finding footage of them transporting fuel, food and water from the direction of the Israeli border
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
We geolocated numerous videos like this to the group’s compound and noted the presence of GHF branded aid still wrapped on pallets. Presenting our findings to the GHF, they acknowledged the militia had received aid directly from them, claiming neutrality in the conflict.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
We went through months of footage to find details of the IDF’s support for a Gaza militia positioning itself as an alternative governing force Found the Popular Forces to be receiving aid directly from the GHF, and moving vehicles & equipment with relative ease over the border
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
New Planet imagery shows buildings being demolished by the IDF around a recently abandoned camp in the south of Gaza city. Just ten days prior the area was full of people.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Between 9-17 August, at least 132 buildings were destroyed in a single square kilometre containing one camp.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The IDF advance has been accompanied by airstrikes targeting buildings very close to camps, further increasing the danger for those present. This strike was less than 200 meters from a major camp.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A newly fortified area not far to the south of the encampments contains a large number of military vehicles and demolition equipment.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The most recent Planet imagery is from 16 and 17 August, in it demolition equipment and military vehicles can be seen next to two recently abandoned encampments.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Satellite imagery from Planet shows large tent encampments have recently been abandoned in the south of Gaza city, coinciding with IDF advances in the area.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The IDF have pushed into the south east of Gaza city, with Palestinians forced to abandon camps in nearby neighbourhoods. After the destruction of whole neighbourhoods across the strip, high numbers of demolition equipment suggest a similar plan for the city. Story with @bvdm.bsky.social
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The dead in this video were filmed on the coastal road, ~500 meters south of a newly manned fortified area visible on Planet imagery from 26 July 22 July imagery shows the area was empty until quite recently
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Sure it’s unrelated
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The oil tankers usually grouped around Kharg noticeably gone since the recent attacks in Iran started. Last time I remember seeing this was during the strikes last year. Imagery 12 - 16 June.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Later in the video, a person films a crowd moving away rom the site. Gunfire can be heard, while the crowd ducks and continues to move away. This is followed by five bursts of gunfire. Children are visible, and nobody is visibly armed in the footage.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Throughout the footage, fences can be seen sheared and bent across the site. There are no visible signs they were securely fixed to concrete foundations. I found the product brochure for the model of fence, and it does not mention suitability for controlling large crowds.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Video shows the furthest east fence went don first, allowing the crowd in this line to enter the central area and easily cross the berm. People in the lines further west can be seen pushing the other fences.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The fences appear to have started to give way relatively early on. A video filmed by security personnel at the site shows a section of the furthest east fence starting to give way, while seemingly unaware security makes a heart sign to the crowd
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Initially, aid was distributed as planned by those in control of the site, with a small group of people filmed inside the compound receiving food.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The main physical security measure in palace at the Rafah site was the fencing keeping people in the entrance queue. This initially kept the people in queue away from a central area, which is only separated from the aid distribution compound by an easily climbable dirt berm.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Checking with Planet satellite imagery, can see damage consistent with the explosion shown on a nearby warehouse within the expected time fame. Images from 15 and 16 March
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Looking in Sadaa, this street matches. The curve of the street opposite, tree, wall etc all line up from the view of a building listed as a shop on google maps. maps.app.goo.gl/BdygeJjD8RMa...
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Looking for a shop on what looks like a smaller side street leading to a main road, with a long wall in the background. The date and timestamp is helpful as orgs like @airwars.bsky.social track strikes and often have location details. In this case they had a region.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is a better view, shows the street opposite more, giving more opportunity to match.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Going to be speaking as part of a panel discussion on OSINT and the war in Ukraine at KCL on Wednesday. Believe its by request for external attendees but link is here if anyone is interested eu01.z.antigena.com/l/TKo8EkWhu5...
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We also found a video created after Finnigan's arrest in which a person creates 764 related graffiti, including a message calling for him to be freed. We didn't publish stills from this part of the video, as we're not publicising the alias he was known by.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Aside from that the channel covered similar themes as the group chat. It shared messages forwarded from a number of now-deleted 764 related chats and channels depicting violence and animal abuse
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
It also shares an image of a wall covered in what is likely paint chosen to resemble blood. The wall has Finnigan’s alias written on it, and the message author says it was painted by him.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We also found a 764 channel that posted quite a bit about Finnigan and his arrest. Mostly in support, and claiming he’ll be released.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
In one particularly disturbing instance one user claimed to have groomed a British person into committing a murder. Participant in online spaces like this often lie and exaggerate to boost their social standing, and we couldn’t definitively match it to a recent case.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The content of the rest of the chat was some of the bleakest I’ve seen. Participants talked about grooming people into self harm for their gratification, killing animals, and shared media depicting gore and violence.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The initial messages we viewed suggested Finnigan had an organisational role in NMK, a 764 subgroup. The participants talked about how he discussed the need for them to get a graphic designer to brand content, and another said he invited them for this purpose.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Satellite imagery from the night of Jan 7-8 shows light from the Los Angeles wildfires at a pretty stark scale. Images from NASA's Black Marble.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Crater from the Tartus explosion visible on today's Planet imagery(left), before image (right) from 15 December
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
And the building is located extremely close to the presidential place
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The terrain at the edge of the building appears to be raised when partially seen through the west facing window, which also fits
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
There are also two points at which tall trees can be seen close to the windows. These correspond to the placement of greenery seen in the sat imagery.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The third is the buildings proportions, I the edge of the roof section (a) the end of the pointed roof cap (b) and the peak of the roof cap (c) and compared against the sat imagery. In both, the proportions of A to C and B to C were consistent at roughly 4x1.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The second is the orientation of the building. When the driver heads in the direction marked below the sun shines at him directly. The orientation matches the suncalc projection for earlier today.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
From Latakia today, matches the statue torn down in Sheikhdaher Square.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Would be pretty surprised if anyone has a tool that can generate decent leads off those images. If they were sharper then much more feasible, a few months ago Pimeyes recognised me masked and in the background of an image.
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Filmed in Wa'er, western edge of Homs 📌34.73911054867369, 36.67686257252783
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Syrian rebels entering Al Bukamal today from the south. Video has been missatributed to Deir az-Zor. 📍 34.441750, 40.924222
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is not the military airport. Shows rebels approaching the city - filmed under 10km away to the north. 📌35.37105844636965, 40.21662610875199
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Filmed in the west of the city, close to Basel Square. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/StPQeRqrxcpL...
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Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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