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Dave Brookes

@tehuringa.bsky.social
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Digital flâneur | Open Source Researcher| GEOINT| Bellingcat GAP Project | Research 中国 & Central Africa | drinks wine & writes stuff |Views are my own |RSs ≠ endorsements

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/01/2026
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 02/12/2025
Trade data can reveal everything from money trails to illicit networks. 📊 Bellingcat’s Katherine De Tolly will walk us through how to use these databases for investigations in our final Stage Talk of the year. Join live & bring your questions: discord.gg/D7zDQ5r5?eve...
Bellingcat Stage Talk, Thursday 4/12, 5pm CET/11am EST. discord.com/invite/bellingcat "Digging for gold in import-export data"
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 03/12/2025
Life in Bamako, the capital of Mali, has been brought to a standstill after a jihadist organisation launched a series of attacks on inbound fuel convoys. Bellingcat has verified six attacks since September, which together have damaged more than 130 fuel tankers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
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Mali Under Siege: Tracking the Fuel Blockade Crippling Bamako - bellingcat
Attacks by a jihadist group on fuel convoys bound for Bamako, the capital of Mali, have destroyed more than 130 tankers since September, a Bellingcat investigation has found.  The systematic attacks b...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 10/09/2025
The largest aid flotilla in history has been attacked twice in two days whilst in port in Tunisia. Open source analysis suggests an incendiary munition is to blame, contradicting official statements. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
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Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row - bellingcat
On September 8 and 9, two vessels of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were attacked outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. Bellingcat analysed footage and images from both incidents. ...
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I’ve been enjoying the International Intrigue newsletter lately…. Bite sized rundown’s of the news pieces of the day my ex-diplomats…. Bias free and great reading. archives.internationalintrigue.io/subscribe/66...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 06/06/2025
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...
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Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcat
We tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 11/06/2025
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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Bellingcat Open Source Challenge- Live! With Carlos Gonzales | Bellingcat
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 29/04/2025
Airstrikes continue in Myanmar despite a temporary ceasefire and suffering from a March earthquake. Bellingcat has identified at least 22 villages damaged by airstrikes, 14 of which are in the regions most impacted by the recent earthquake. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...
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Open Sources Show Myanmar Junta Airstrike Damages Despite Post-Earthquake Ceasefire - bellingcat
Photo: Reuters
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 12/04/2025
Have you solved the latest Bellingcat Open Source Challenges yet? We'd love to hear how you got on? Have you published your working out anywhere? Let us know!
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/04/2025
The Bellingcat Auto Archiver is an essential tool for online investigations, helping you to secure the source material crucial for your research. We now have a brand new version of the tool, find it here: github.com/bellingcat/a...
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Release v1.0.0 · bellingcat/auto-archiver
🎉 Auto Archiver v1.0.0 We're excited to announce a major stable release of the Auto Archiver tool! This release comes with some major improvements in stability and flexibility, with a modular and e...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 13/03/2025
Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat
If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
***UPDATE*** I hate being right about things. #OSINT What looks like the first photos of China’s ‘invasion barges’ we first reported in naval news recently www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2... The front barge (self propelled) is the smallest type, some are twice this size
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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Luxembourg's plans for a financial centre in Rwanda explain why the EU response to the conflict in DRC has been so limp to date. The undermining role one small country can play highlights the structural weaknesses of the EU: www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Luxembourg delays adoption of EU sanctions against Rwanda
Causing surprise across the bloc, Luxembourg has blocked the adoption of sanctions against Kigali. European ministers have suspended EU defence consultations with Rwanda. #EuropeNews
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 27/02/2025
Could you be our new executive director driving our collaborations and impact in the USA? Find out what we're looking for and what the job involves here: www.on-ramps.com/jobs/3408
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A lot of factors in play, but between overseas donors and the exploitation of the DRC's mineral wealth, I think it's fair to say they've been put in a lot stronger position.
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The U.K. suspends aid to Rwanda in response to the the ongoing conflict in the DRC. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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UK Statement on response to the situation in Eastern DRC
The UK has issued a statement in response to the situation in Eastern DRC.
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Alexa @alexakoenig.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thank you for having me!
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
An approximate area of M23 control in the #DRC. All reports indicate M23 have taken Kalehe and the current front is between #Kasheke and #Kabamba. At this point, it seems likely that Congolese forces have moved equipment out of Kavumu airport.
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Excellent article....nice to chat last night @ethuin.bsky.social 🙂
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Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Mainstream discourse on conflict in eastern #Congo overemphasizes the role of natural resources. This precludes a more solid and thorough analysis overall. @judithverweijen.bsky.social and I explain how and why 👇🏼
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The Internet Archive has removed its archives of individual tweets from the account belonging to DOGE staffer Marko Elez. The WSJ reported yesterday that this account belonged to Ekes, and that many of these tweets were racist and led to his resignation.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/02/2025
Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social
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Rumu @chrisrumu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
United Nations' Human Rights Council's Special Session on the #DRC situation starts in a moment: #6MillionVoices for #Justice4Congo #Rwanda #Goma webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a...
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1st Meeting, 37th Special Session of the Human Rights Council
37th special session of the Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Open Source Munitions Portal @munitionsportal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
57E6 surface-to-air missiles, which are launched from Russia’s Pantsir air defence system, have seen widespread use in recent years. The OSMP contains a range of images showing 57E6 Pantsir debris, along with a brief munition description. View it here: osmp.ngo/model/57e6-s...
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Centre on Armed Groups @armedgroups.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In a new Q&A piece for the Centre, Fellow @ethuin.bsky.social unpacks the complexities of the #M23 conflict and the broader crisis in the #EasternDRC. Read it here: www.armedgroupscentre.org/m23drc-vogel
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What's left of Northern Gaza's infrastructure for those returning? Bellingcat takes a look at the damage to schools, hospitals and other sites in Northern Gaza www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
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Satellite Imagery Shows Schools and Hospitals Destroyed in Northern Gaza - bellingcat
Thousands of people have begun returning to their abandoned homes in northern Gaza after Israeli forces opened the Netzarim corridor, which separates the northern and southern parts of the territory, ...
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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 29/01/2025
We’re honored to collaborate with Bellingcat for another article‒this time about the recent assault on Goma.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 29/01/2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are consolidating their control over Goma, a city of approximately 2 million people. Clashes dominated the streets earlier this week forcing residents to stay inside. Bellingcat has been monitoring the ongoing crisis… www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01...
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M23 Rebels Consolidate Control over Key City in DR Congo - bellingcat
After days of clashes the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have taken great control of the city including securing the international airport.
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Kenton Thibaut @kentonthibaut.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It was great to work with @bellingcat.com on this piece. We discussed how Chinese companies obfuscate shady goings-on via networks of LLCs registered abroad. I also discussed data gathering practices of some companies, which are used to build datasets of valuable targets for Chinese intel agencies.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 20/01/2025
Adverts selling an opioid up to 500 times stronger than heroin are all over the internet, from social media platforms to trade sites. Bellingcat and partner Postimees investigate how this deadly drug is infiltrating Europe and beyond… www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01...
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Chinese Suppliers Behind Ads Deadly For Nitazenes Targeting Europe
Investigation finds more than 1,000 online ads for nitazenes, including from Chinese companies, and links European shipments of the deadly drugs to China.
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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
January 8 SkySat imagery from @planet.com shows the extent of devastation in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles due to the #PalisadesFire. Airbus imagery from Google Earth shows the same area a year earlier. Much of the neighborhood is gone with only a handful of homes still standing.
A satellite image from Planet Labs from January 8 2025 shows the extent of destruction in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles after the Palisades fire swept through the area. Most of the homes are gone.A satellite image from Airbus and Google Earth from January 2024 shows the Pacific Palisades neighborhood before its destruction in 2025.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 03/01/2025
User-uploaded images on Google Maps can be really useful for researchers but the filename of those images is not visible by default. We built a tool to help reveal that information which can add important contextual clues to any image: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
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Discovering Clues Hidden in Google Maps Image Filenames
The Bellingcat Filename Finder makes it easy to see the filenames of images on Google Maps, which can provide useful contextual clues.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"The Writing On the Wall" A few days after HK police laid siege to CUHK, it decided PolyU should taste tear gas and violence too. This is a small thread of the graffiti students left around their campus during the siege Below: "There's no future. Why bother going to school?" Source: TG (Nov 2019)
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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 25/12/2024
China steps up campaign for single people to date, marry and give birth – FT: ‘married women in their 20s and early 30s across the country have been receiving calls from local officials asking about their plans to start a family’
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China steps up campaign for single people to date, marry and give birth
Women receive cold-calls about family planning and universities asked to offer ‘love courses’ to tackle demographic crisis
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Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Open-source investigative techniques have become a key part of modern-day investigative journalism. To celebrate and showcase their power and impact, we launched the CIR Open Source Film Awards. Join us and submit your film to the second edition of the Awards! The submissions will close on 22 Jan.
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Imogen Piper @imogenpiper.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Our new VF story analyzes satellite Imagery alongside witness accounts to show how Israel is establishing a new corridor in North Gaza, fortifying military positions, demolishing huge swathes of Jabalya and Beit Lahia, and forcing civilians out. wapo.st/4gFoSrO
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Israel is demolishing northern Gaza and fortifying military positions, imagery shows
Visual analysis and interviews show how Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the north as the Israeli military cuts a new corridor through Gaza.
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Alexa @alexakoenig.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Very grateful to see this in-depth coverage from @asymmetricalh.bsky.social on vicarious trauma + other issues that can come from working on IHL/ICL/Human Rights.This convo was from ~2 yrs ago, before the release of the book Graphic. We def need to keep addressing! @adlampros.bsky.social
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 17/12/2024
The Billionaire Criminal Who Secretly Profited @nytimes.com & @thewirechina.https://twp.ai/1KAaQY obtained documents revealing that a corrupt investor was linked through investments of ~US$1 billion to the companies of one of China’s most successful entrepreneurs. More: gijn.org/stories/202...
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Joseph Trevithick @franticgoat.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Secretive Bladed AGM-114R9X Hellfire Missile Looks To Have Reemerged In New Syria Strike www.twz.com/air/secretiv...
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Secretive Bladed AGM-114R9X Hellfire Missile Looks To Have Reemerged In New Syria Strike
U.S. forces have been taking advantage of Syria's newly permissive airspace to launch strikes amid concerns about resurgent terror groups.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Must watch Channel 4 report on the mass graves in Syria, with over 100,000 dead estimated to be buried in just one site. The challenge to forensically document these sites will be huge. www.channel4.com/news/true-sc...
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True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave
His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Big 7.4 earthquake just off Port Vila in Vanuatu www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Tsunami threat after magnitude-7.4 earthquake recorded at Vanuatu
Authorities are warning of a tsunami threat after a magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck Vanuatu.
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Alexa @alexakoenig.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
As of a few minutes ago, it's official! Ulic Egan + I are contracted w/ @ucpress.bsky.social for an open access book that builds off Ulic's award-winning dissertation + our research into open source investigations into sexual + gender-based violence to advance methods for doing this work responsibly
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I’m calling for an intervention
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Gabòr Friesen @gaborfriesen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Austin Tice kidnapping video valley geolocation. Local confirmation is needed. The video of Austin Tice in 2012 shows few details. But in the Bellingcat discord, we think we have identified the specific valley at 33.511, 36.007. Damascus-based journalists could help investigate this further (1/8).
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Right Bank?
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Follow the Money EU @ftm.eu · 14/12/2024
With fake Tinder accounts, we managed to track the movements of hundreds of Western soldiers. A design flaw in the app, combined with soldiers sharing a lot online, made it surprisingly easy to follow them and gather personal details — a goldmine for foreign spieces. www.ftm.eu/articles/tin...
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Looking for love and sex on Tinder, soldiers endanger national security
An investigation by Follow the Money identified the Tinder accounts of hundreds of soldiers in Europe, including many Americans. Through their dating app profiles, FTM was able to find out personal da...
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Hey!…. Remember that time we both got polio? Yeah…. Me neither. What a state of affairs 😞
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Galen Reich @galen.reich.me.uk · 13/12/2024
It's Friday! And the second week of Bellingcat open source research challenges are fully unlocked 🔓 Try them out now 👇 challenge.bellingcat.com
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Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Those matches are kinda cool
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 13/12/2024
A Colombian national goes missing. Then his identity documents appear in a video posted by the Sudanese Armed Forces. Bellingcat’s @mabl2k.bsky.social investigates… www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/12...
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Colombian Mercenaries in Transit to Sudan via Libya - What do we Know?  - bellingcat
Final TikTok post of Colombian reportedly missing in Sudan sheds light on possible journey from Colombia through Libya to the conflict zone.
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