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Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

1/ I have exciting news: @dfrlab.bsky.social ‘s Digital Sherlocks is back! 🎉 This one is personal — as a #DigitalSherlocks alumna myself, managing and relaunching the program is a special moment. For the first time, we are also partnering with @penn-mediated.bsky.social !

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Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is the gets-me-up-in-the-morning-work. And grateful to get to work with the excellent @sayyara.bsky.social, @etbrooking.bsky.social & Graham Brookie.

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Applications are now open for Digital Sherlocks 2026 🕵️‍♀️ Join a global cohort learning how to investigate online information, track influence operations, and strengthen information integrity. 🗓 Apply by April 14 🔗 bit.ly/47JLw02

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🔎 Drawing on our expertise countering a range online harms, the DFRLab helped build the Academy as a mechanism to strengthen collective capacity to expose manipulation, protect human rights, and defend democracy in the digital age. Read more: bit.ly/48kgBqy

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Atlantic Council’s DFRLab delivers the G7 RRM Digital Transnational Repression Detection Academy

TORONTO — November 25, 2025 — The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), a global leader in open-source research and digital capacity building, in partnership with Global Affairs ...

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Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It’s a tough time for our community. We’re seeing incredible colleagues lose their jobs, it is painful. But now more than ever, we must #HoldTheLine. Andy is a brilliant mentor and friend who leads with integrity, generosity, and deep care for people around him. (1/2)

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 03/04/2025

Hi everyone.... This week, I'm winding down my role as managing editor and research director at the @dfrlab.bsky.social. Like so many other organizations investigating disinformation and other online threats, we were hit pretty hard due to stop-work orders from the US Department of State. 🧵

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Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

1/ "too politically biased" "became a tool to censor" This is how Meta ends its Fact-Checking Program, which for years had unbiased, non-partisan, and hard-working fact-checking organizations around the world contributing to the prevention of misinformation and disinformation on its platforms

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🕵️‍♂️ 🔎 DFRLab joined the #SofiaInformationIntegrityForum, collaborating with experts to combat online harms & democratic backsliding. We're thrilled for the opportunity to spotlight insights from our researchers @acarvin.bsky.social @vchatelet.bsky.social @sayyara.bsky.social @ruslantrad.bsky.social

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Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

NEW report: At @dfrlab.bsky.social we've investigated Telegram's role in Russia since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The report focuses on how Telegram emerged as a pivotal platform for 🇷🇺to justify the war in 🇺🇦 and undermine Western support. dfrlab.org/2024/06/10/a...

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Another battlefield: Telegram as a digital front in Russia’s war against Ukraine

DFRLab investigates the role of Telegram in Russia since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine

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Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

During the battle of Avdiivka, Russian information operations utilized Telegram and state media to push multiple claims to undermine Ukrainian morale and Western confidence in its Ukrainian partners. Our overview with @vchatelet.bsky.social and @sayyara.bsky.social:

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Russian information operations targeted Ukraine and NATO during the battle for Avdiivka

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and state media pushed multiple narratives to undermine Ukraine and its western partners

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

It has been about six months since Wagner failed mutiny in Russia. Using geolocation, @dfrlab.bsky.social's @vchatelet.bsky.social and @sayyara.bsky.social documented damages and losses and estimated that the mutiny resulted in at least RUB 440 million (~$16.5 million) of equipment loss. See how:

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Documenting equipment losses from the 2023 Wagner mutiny

The DFRLab revisits Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed insurrection against the Russian military, six months ago this week

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

More than five years after the murder of Saudi journalist and critic Jamal Khashoggi, pro-Saudi accounts on X continue to target his Turkish fiancée and fellow activist, Hatice Cengiz, with death threats and insults by at least 100 highly-engaged accounts that displayed indicators of coordination.

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Pro-Saudi X accounts repeatedly harassed activist and fiancée of murdered journalist Jamal Khashogg...

Turkish activist Hatice Cengiz, fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, targeted on the platform formerly known as Twitter

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Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Six months since the failed mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin against the Russian MoD. With my colleague @vchatelet.bsky.social we analyzed available open-source evidence to document equipment losses from the 2023 Wagner mutiny. Read our latest at @dfrlab.bsky.social 👇 dfrlab.org/2023/12/21/d...

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Documenting equipment losses from the 2023 Wagner mutiny

The DFRLab revisits Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed insurrection against the Russian military, six months ago this week

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 12/12/2023

My team at @dfrlab.bsky.social just published this report by U of Cincinnati Prof. Michael Loadenthal in which he analyzes how Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups use Telegram to distribute propaganda videos, particularly footage touting their weaponry. dfrlab.org/2023/12/12/h...

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How Palestinian militants use Telegram videos in the Mideast conflict

Palestinian militant factions appear to be operating with a high degree of technical coordination, producing uniformly branded propaganda videos

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Russian War Report | December 15 Russian conscription targets students and migrants Putin announces presidential bid in annexed regions Moscow bans QR codes These and more in the latest #RussianWarReport www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Next week! Join as @dfrlab.bsky.social, Duco, and @katieharbath.bsky.social's Anchor Change host an exciting conversation on the massive year of voting that will be 2024 - 83 national elections in 78 countries - and tech's role in informing developing global elections plans and strategies. RSVP:

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Elections everywhere all at once

An expert conversation on the implications of the 83 elections occurring in 78 countries in 2024.

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

The @dfrlab.bsky.social's @laylam.bsky.social joined the BBC to discuss how mis- and disinformation on social media have changed the way people consume the news, particularly with regard to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Conversation starts at 34:10:

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Newshour - Missile strikes Gaza refugee camp - BBC Sounds

Hamas-led health ministry accuses Israel of killing more than thirty in the airstrike

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Today, President Biden issued an executive order on developing trustworthy artificial intelligence. While not exhaustive, it is an opening salvo for conversations the US government must have about AI. Atlantic Council Experts React ft. @dfrlab.bsky.social Graham Brookie & @rosejackson.bsky.social:

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Experts react: What does Biden’s new executive order mean for the future of AI?

US President Joe Biden has issued an executive order intended to make artificial intelligence safer, more secure, and more trustworthy. Atlantic Council experts share their insights.

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

The @dfrlab.bsky.social rolling deep to EU Disinfo Lab's Disinfo2023! Today, Mattia Caniglia, Sayyara Mammadova, and Givi Gigitashvili held a workshop on open source investigation methods while Resident Senior Fellow Emerson Brooking discussed disinformation policies across global perspectives.

DFRLab team hold workshop on open source investigations.

Emerson Brooking presents a keynote on the online aspects of the war between Ukraine and Russia.

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Cyber Detective @cybdetective.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

How to use TG Collector to scrape #Telegram channels Quick 4 step guide from Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social osintteam.blog/open-source-... #osint #socmint

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Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

A screenshot circulating online allegedly showing "Shahed-171 photographed while flying near the border with Azerbaijan and Armenia". With just two clicks (tip: use reverse image search), you can find that this photo is from 2018. #debunked

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Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

The deadline to apply the @dfrlab.bsky.social ‘s #DigitalSherlocks program is September 5th! Participate in this unique online program to develop new skills in combating disinformation, including #OSINT, source verification, geolocation, narrative analysis and more. form.jotform.com/232196082048...

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360/Digital Sherlocks: Fall 2023 Applications

Please click the link to complete this form.

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

🚨 📱 NEW REPORT: Protecting point-to-point messaging apps: Understanding Telegram, WeChat, and WhatsApp in the United States Learn about the growing use of these platforms in the US and how differences in design and policy affect these apps, their users' privacy, and free speech.

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Protecting point-to-point messaging apps: Understanding Telegram, WeChat, and WhatsApp in the United...

A year-long project on protecting users' data and privacy that analyzes the growing use of point-to-point messaging platforms in the United States and the implications their design and governing polic...

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Tessa Knight @awildknight.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Please join us tomorrow for an exciting panel looking at Sudan's information environment before and after conflict broke out in April this year. Registration info below!

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

🚨 🇨🇳 NEW @dfrlab.bsky.social REPORT 🚨 🇨🇳 The latest report in Kenton Thibaut's series on Chinese Discourse Power. In this report, she assesses discourse power through a frame of “media convergence" and the mechanisms of oversight on which such communications rely. More in thread ⬇

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Chinese discourse power: Capabilities and impact

An examination of China's online and offline channels for the dissemination of "discourse power" and the mechanisms of oversight on which such communications rely.

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

Research shows that involving children directly in decisions that impact them is key to identifying best interests, understanding, and addressing children’s diverse needs. A trustworthy future web must reflect the rights—and perspectives—of children.

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ANNEX 3: Respecting Children as Rights Holders

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Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

In the latest #RussianWarReport, I covered the allegations of the US and Ukraine orchestrated false-flag operation on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which are circulating across multiple platforms ahead of the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius. Find more from @dfrlab.bsky.social team 👇

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Russian War Report: Russian conspiracy alleges false flag at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Allegations of a supposedly US and Ukraine-planned false flag operation on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant spread across social media ahead of the NATO Summit.

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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

A new conspiracy alleging a potential false-flag attack by the US and Ukraine on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant circulated online. Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike killed at least 10 and wounded dozens in Lviv in western Ukraine. #RussianWarReport🇷🇺 🧵👇

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Russian War Report: Russian conspiracy alleges false flag at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Allegations of a supposedly US and Ukraine-planned false flag operation on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant spread across social media ahead of the NATO Summit.

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