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bellingcat Mar 19, 2024
Gaza’s Trees Disappear, Showing a Humanitarian Crisis
bellingcat Sep 06, 2023
Geolocating Russia’s Disgraced General Surovikin
bellingcat Aug 21, 2023
Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation
bellingcat Aug 18, 2023
A New Tool Shows What War Has Done to Ukraine’s Forests
bellingcat Aug 10, 2023
Revealing Andrew Tate’s Secretive War Room “Brothers”
bellingcat Jul 14, 2023
Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?
bellingcat May 25, 2023
Mapping the Aftermath of the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Border Clashes
bellingcat May 11, 2023
Grain Trail: Tracking Russia’s Ghost Ships with Satellite Imagery
bellingcat May 10, 2023
Finding Geolocation Leads with Bellingcat’s OpenStreetMap Search Tool
bellingcat May 09, 2023
Tracing the Odnoklassniki Profile of the Texas Mall Shooter
bellingcat May 08, 2023
Chronolocation: Determining When a Photo was Taken Using Facebook, Google Street View and Assorted Tiny Details
bellingcat May 04, 2023
Lucas Villa: Cell Phone Data Gives New Insight into Unsolved Case of Colombian Protestor’s Killing
bellingcat May 03, 2023
International Far-Right Fight Night Comes to Budapest
bellingcat May 02, 2023
Testing for Manipulation: A Case Study from Colombia
bellingcat Apr 28, 2023
Anatomy of Three Leaked US Intelligence Documents
bellingcat Apr 18, 2023
The Challenges of Conducting Open Source Research on China
bellingcat Apr 08, 2023
From Discord to 4chan: The Improbable Journey of a US Intelligence Leak
bellingcat Apr 04, 2023
How (Not) To Interpret Far-Right Symbols
bellingcat Mar 29, 2023
How Online Investigators Proved Video of Ukrainian Soldiers Harassing Woman was Staged
bellingcat Mar 28, 2023
How Open Source Evidence was Upheld in a Human Rights Court
bellingcat Mar 21, 2023
Tiger Sheikhs: The Emirati Royals and Covert Celebrity Wildlife Shoots
bellingcat Mar 03, 2023
Recognising Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as an Open Source Researcher
bellingcat Mar 02, 2023
PMC Ryodan: The Strange Story of Anime Teens, their Sworn Enemies and the Kremlin
bellingcat Feb 24, 2023
Russia’s Assault on Daily Life in Ukraine
bellingcat Feb 21, 2023
Borderless Vigilantism: The Nativist US Militias Entering Mexico
bellingcat Feb 20, 2023
A Year into Russia’s Invasion, Survival in Ukraine is Still “Like a Lottery Ticket”
bellingcat Feb 13, 2023
How Wagner Gave Three Russian Crime Bosses from the 90s a New Lease of Death
bellingcat Feb 03, 2023
Wanted by Interpol, Relaxing in Dubai: Geolocating Isabel dos Santos’ Life of Luxury
bellingcat Jan 27, 2023
Anatomy of a Shelling: How Russian Rocket Artillery Struck Mykolaiv
bellingcat Jan 20, 2023
Octosuite: A New Tool to Conduct Open Source Investigations on GitHub
bellingcat Dec 21, 2022
As QAnon Falters, European Followers Flock to a Financial Conspiracy
bellingcat Nov 29, 2022
Finding Rundo (Again): US White Supremacist Facing Criminal Charges Located in Bulgaria
bellingcat Nov 28, 2022
Moscow’s Mule: How Russia Rewrote a Narcotics Case to Get its Spy Back
bellingcat Nov 23, 2022
How to Maintain Mental Hygiene as an Open Source Researcher
bellingcat Nov 18, 2022
Five kilometres of destruction: Satellite imagery reveals extent of damage to civilian convoy in Burkina Faso
bellingcat Nov 02, 2022
How to Investigate TikTok Like a Pro – Part II: Using TikTok for Ukraine Research
bellingcat Oct 28, 2022
How we Geolocated a Photo of a Russian Missile Programming Team
bellingcat Oct 24, 2022
The Remote Control Killers Behind Russia’s Cruise Missile Strikes on Ukraine
bellingcat Oct 20, 2022
An Execution Near Sev Lake
bellingcat Oct 06, 2022
Automated Map Searches, Scam-Busting Tools and Twitter Search Translations: Here are the Results of Bellingcat’s Second H
bellingcat Oct 04, 2022
Scorched Earth: Using NASA Fire Data to Monitor War Zones
bellingcat Sep 22, 2022
Preserve Vital Online Content With Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver
bellingcat Sep 19, 2022
Identifying Suspicious Businesses, Reddit Analysis and Tracking Russian Propaganda: Here are the Results of Bellingcat’s
bellingcat Aug 31, 2022
Paradise Costs: Why Barbudans are Fighting a Luxury Resort
bellingcat Aug 25, 2022
Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy
bellingcat Aug 19, 2022
Meet Slovakia’s Most Popular Telegrammer – A Far-Right Conspiracist Now Wanted by Law Enforcement
bellingcat Aug 12, 2022
These are the Tools Open Source Researchers Say They Need
bellingcat Aug 10, 2022
Why Did a Major European Security Firm Train White Supremacists (Again)?
bellingcat Aug 09, 2022
Using New Tech to Investigate Old Photographs
bellingcat Aug 05, 2022
Tracking the Faceless Killers who Mutilated and Executed a Ukrainian POW
bellingcat Jul 28, 2022
‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right
bellingcat Jul 18, 2022
Donbas Doubles: The Search for Girkin and Plotnitsky’s Cover Identities
bellingcat Jun 28, 2022
Russia’s Kremenchuk Claims Versus the Evidence
bellingcat Jun 24, 2022
How Russia’s Offensive Damaged Critical Donbas Water Infrastructure
bellingcat Jun 18, 2022
Inside the Secretive World of Irish Limited Partnerships
bellingcat Jun 17, 2022
Meet the Irregular Troops Backing up Russia’s Army in the Kharkiv Region
bellingcat Jun 16, 2022
The Brazilian Candidate: The Studious Cover Identity of an Alleged Russian Spy
bellingcat Jun 15, 2022
How Janez Janša’s Media Empire Pushed Slovenia’s Extremes into the Mainstream
bellingcat Jun 07, 2022
Clues to the Fate of Five Damaged Cultural Heritage Sites in Ukraine
bellingcat May 24, 2022
Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise
bellingcat May 14, 2022
Unravelling the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
bellingcat May 11, 2022
This New Tool Lets You Analyse TikTok Hashtags
bellingcat Apr 22, 2022
Bellingcat is Banned in Russia. Here’s How to Beat the Block
bellingcat Apr 15, 2022
Russia’s QAnon Followers Can’t Make Up Their Minds About Ukraine
bellingcat Apr 14, 2022
Russia’s Kramatorsk ‘Facts’ Versus the Evidence
bellingcat Apr 11, 2022
France Targeted ‘Terrorists’ with a US-Made Bomb in Mali. Witnesses Say They Hit a Wedding
bellingcat Apr 04, 2022
Russia’s Bucha “Facts” Versus the Evidence
bellingcat Apr 01, 2022
Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents
bellingcat Mar 27, 2022
Boris Nemtsov Tailed by FSB Squad Prior to 2015 Murder
bellingcat Mar 17, 2022
Hospitals Bombed and Apartments Destroyed: Mapping Incidents of Civilian Harm in Ukraine
bellingcat Mar 11, 2022
Male State: The Russian Online Hate Group Backing Putin’s War
bellingcat Mar 11, 2022
These are the Cluster Munitions Documented by Ukrainian Civilians
bellingcat Mar 08, 2022
How to Archive Telegram Content to Document Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
bellingcat Feb 28, 2022
‘Exploiting Cadavers ’and ‘Faked IEDs’: Experts Debunk Staged Pre-War ‘Provocation’ in the Donbas
bellingcat Feb 27, 2022
Invasion of Ukraine: Tracking use of Cluster Munitions in Civilian Areas
bellingcat Feb 27, 2022
Follow the Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map
bellingcat Feb 23, 2022
Documenting and Debunking Dubious Footage from Ukraine’s Frontlines
bellingcat Feb 17, 2022
Help Bellingcat Decide Which Open Source Tools to Build
bellingcat Feb 11, 2022
Radar Interference Tracker: A New Open Source Tool to Locate Active Military Radar Systems
bellingcat Feb 08, 2022
Tracking Russian Military Vehicles on the Move
bellingcat Jan 20, 2022
Myanmar’s Rebels Get Resourceful With Improvised Drones
bellingcat Jan 08, 2022
Launching an Open Source Flight Database for Kazakhstan in Wake of Protests
bellingcat Jan 06, 2022
How the Denver Shooter’s Digital Trail Exposes the Violent Fantasies of the ‘Manosphere’
bellingcat Dec 06, 2021
Unravelling the Killing of Colombian Protester Lucas Villa
bellingcat Dec 02, 2021
‘On the Run Again’: Has US White Supremacist Rob Rundo Returned to Serbia?
bellingcat Nov 24, 2021
Toy Rabbits, Chemtrails and German QAnon Fanatics: How Not to Conduct Open Source Investigations
bellingcat Nov 17, 2021
Inside Wagnergate: Ukraine’s Brazen Sting Operation to Snare Russian Mercenaries
bellingcat Nov 09, 2021
First Steps to Getting Started in Open Source Research
bellingcat Nov 05, 2021
Russian Diplomat Who Died at Berlin Embassy is Senior Intelligence Figure’s Son
bellingcat Nov 02, 2021
You Told Us Where To Point A Satellite. Here Are The Results
bellingcat Nov 01, 2021
A Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Verification
bellingcat Oct 20, 2021
Meet the Male State: Russia’s Nastiest Online Hate Group
bellingcat Sep 21, 2021
Bellingcat Can Now Access Specialised Satellite Imagery. Tell Us Where We Should Look
bellingcat Sep 09, 2021
Meet The Far-Right ‘Fanatics’ Getting Hungary’s Football Team in Trouble
bellingcat Aug 26, 2021
The Telltale Traces of the US Military’s New ‘Bladed’ Missile
bellingcat Aug 17, 2021
Is Ethiopia Flying Iranian-Made Armed Drones?
bellingcat Aug 02, 2021
Is Climate Change Heating up Central Asia’s Border Disputes? Clues from Satellite Imagery
bellingcat Jul 20, 2021
A New Platform Tracks Airstrikes in Yemen
bellingcat Jul 16, 2021
How Schoolchildren Became Pawns in Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis
bellingcat Jul 06, 2021
Help Bellingcat Build Tools For Open Source Investigators!
bellingcat Jul 01, 2021
White Boy Summer, Nazi Memes and the Mainstreaming of White Supremacist Violence
bellingcat Jun 24, 2021
Tigray Conflict: Videos Provide New Details of Mahbere Dego Massacre
bellingcat Jun 09, 2021
Russian Poet Dmitry Bykov Targeted by Navalny Poisoners
bellingcat May 28, 2021
US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps
bellingcat May 19, 2021
Geofenced Searches on Twitter: A Case Study Detailing South Asia’s Covid Crisis
bellingcat May 18, 2021
Unsure When a Video or Photo was Taken? How to Tell by Measuring the Length of Shadows
bellingcat May 14, 2021
Berlin Group 21, ‘Ivan’s’ Emails and Chemical Weapons Conspiracy Theories
bellingcat May 12, 2021
An Update from Bellingcat’s Anti-Equality Monitoring Project
bellingcat May 10, 2021
A New Platform Maps Colombia’s Escalating Police Violence
bellingcat May 10, 2021
Where in the World is Q? Clues from Image Metadata
bellingcat Apr 30, 2021
Bellingcat Digital Showcase Series
bellingcat Apr 30, 2021
John Doe 29: Image From FBI Child Exploitation Case Geolocated to Turkey
bellingcat Apr 26, 2021
How GRU Sabotage and Assassination Operations in Czechia and Bulgaria Sought to Undermine Ukraine
bellingcat Apr 23, 2021
India’s Latest Covid Wave Spills on to Social Media Amidst Critical Shortages
bellingcat Apr 22, 2021
How Q’s ‘Lost Drops’ Undermine the QAnon Myth
bellingcat Apr 20, 2021
Senior GRU Leader Directly Involved With Czech Arms Depot Explosion
bellingcat Apr 19, 2021
Persian Posturing: Iran’s Drone Fleet Seen From Space
bellingcat Apr 15, 2021
What Oil, Satellite Technology and Iraq can Tell us About Pollution
bellingcat Apr 13, 2021
The Curious Case of CIPDH: Fantasy Passports, Misappropriated Identities and ‘Human Rights Defenders’
bellingcat Apr 01, 2021
Mahbere Dego: Clues to a Clifftop Massacre in Ethiopia
bellingcat Mar 26, 2021
Suez Canal: Satellite Clues on a Stricken Cargo Ship
bellingcat Mar 19, 2021
Berlin Assassination: New Evidence on Suspected FSB Hitman Passed to German Investigators
bellingcat Mar 11, 2021
Launching an Open Source Aircraft Database for Venezuela
bellingcat Feb 24, 2021
Woman Accused of Stealing Nancy Pelosi’s Laptop Appears in Video Making Nazi Salute
bellingcat Feb 24, 2021
The Websites Sustaining Britain’s Far-Right Influencers
bellingcat Feb 11, 2021
Vladimir Kara-Murza Tailed by Members of FSB Squad Prior to Suspected Poisonings
bellingcat Feb 10, 2021
GoPro Footage Shows Far-Right Figure Alan Swinney Preparing for Portland Violence
bellingcat Feb 09, 2021
Rockets over Yemen: Inside the Houthis’ Botched Attack on Aden Airport
bellingcat Feb 08, 2021
How Instagram Celebrities Promote Dubai’s Underground Animal Trade
bellingcat Feb 03, 2021
Why $500k Donation to Right-Wing Causes Does Not Signify Return of ‘Bitcoin Fairy’
bellingcat Jan 29, 2021
The QAnon Timeline: Four Years, 5,000 Drops and Countless Failed Prophecies
bellingcat Jan 27, 2021
Navalny Poison Squad Implicated in Murders of Three Russian Activists
bellingcat Jan 14, 2021
Understanding Police Use of ‘Less Lethal’ Munitions
bellingcat Jan 07, 2021
The Journey of Ashli Babbitt
bellingcat Jan 07, 2021
Exposed Email Logs Show 8kun Owner in Contact With QAnon Influencers and Enthusiasts
bellingcat Jan 06, 2021
The Making of QAnon: A Crowdsourced Conspiracy
bellingcat Jan 05, 2021
How the Insurgent and MAGA Right are Being Welded Together on the Streets of Washington D.C.
bellingcat Dec 21, 2020
“If it Hadn’t Been for the Prompt Work of the Medics”: FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny
bellingcat Dec 18, 2020
A Kyrgyz Custom Official’s Luxury Getaways
bellingcat Dec 14, 2020
Hunting the Hunters: How We Identified Navalny’s FSB Stalkers
bellingcat Dec 04, 2020
What Restaurants and Maps Can Tell us About Billions of Dollars of Covid-19 Relief Funds
bellingcat Dec 03, 2020
Using the Sun and the Shadows for Geolocation
bellingcat Nov 19, 2020
Are Emirati Armed Drones Supporting Ethiopia from an Eritrean Air Base?
bellingcat Nov 18, 2020
Million MAGA March: Unravelling a Violent Viral Video
bellingcat Nov 18, 2020
An American White Supremacist’s New Home in Serbia
bellingcat Nov 12, 2020
The GRU’s MH17 Disinformation Operations Part 1: The Bonanza Media Project
bellingcat Nov 11, 2020
West Papua: New Online Influence Operation Attempts to Sway Independence Debate
bellingcat Nov 09, 2020
Troubled Waters: Documenting Pollution of Iraq’s Shatt Al-Arab River
bellingcat Nov 04, 2020
How a French Charity Built Ties with Pro-Assad Christian Militias
bellingcat Oct 29, 2020
A New Platform Maps US Police Violence Against Protesters
bellingcat Oct 26, 2020
Unpublished OPCW Douma Correspondence Raises Doubts about Transparency of “OPCW Leaks” Promoters
bellingcat Oct 23, 2020
Frontex at Fault: European Border Force Complicit in ‘Illegal’ Pushbacks
bellingcat Oct 23, 2020
Russia’s Clandestine Chemical Weapons Programme and the GRU’s Unit 29155
bellingcat Oct 22, 2020
Russian Vehicle Registration Leak Reveals Additional GRU Hackers
bellingcat Oct 17, 2020
The MH17 Trial Part 2: The Bezler Tapes, a Case of Red Herrings?
bellingcat Oct 16, 2020
How American religious conservatives fought LGBT rights in Ukraine
bellingcat Oct 15, 2020
An Execution in Hadrut
bellingcat Oct 14, 2020
Testing Twitter’s Methods of Restricting Blocked Links and Domains
bellingcat Oct 13, 2020
How We Found UK Anti-Riot Gear Being Used by US Police Against Journalists and Demonstrators at BLM Protests
bellingcat Oct 10, 2020
How British-made sniper rifles ended up in Yemen, Syria, and Ukraine
bellingcat Oct 07, 2020
Wagner-Affiliated Telegram Channel Trolls Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Analysts
bellingcat Oct 01, 2020
The Disappearance of Quitobaquito Springs: Tracking Hydrologic Change with Google Earth Engine
bellingcat Sep 30, 2020
Could Coalition Airstrikes Have Hit Medical Facilities in Syria? A Review of Open Source Data
bellingcat Sep 23, 2020
Patriot Coalition: Leaked Messages Show Far-Right Group’s Plans for Portland Violence
bellingcat Sep 04, 2020
Post-Mortem of a Triple Poisoning: New Details Emerge in GRU’s Failed Murder Attempts in Bulgaria
bellingcat Aug 29, 2020
Suspected accomplice in Berlin Tiergarten Murder Identified as FSB/Vympel Officer
bellingcat Aug 28, 2020
A Guide to Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Wake of Suspected Alexei Navalny Poisoning
bellingcat Aug 24, 2020
Cleared for Takeoff: Exploring Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020’s Research Potential
bellingcat Aug 24, 2020
Bellingcat is Hiring: Training and Admin Assistant (remote-based)
bellingcat Aug 21, 2020
WHO Director-General Attacked on Twitter with CCP-Related Memes
bellingcat Aug 20, 2020
Threats, Lies and Videotape: Prigozhin’s Long-Running War on Free Media
bellingcat Aug 15, 2020
Protests and Tensions Escalate Around Amulsar Gold Project in Armenia
bellingcat Aug 14, 2020
Putin Chef’s Kisses of Death: Russia’s Shadow Army’s State-Run Structure Exposed
bellingcat Aug 12, 2020
Historic Bombing Runs: The Memphis Belle Case
bellingcat Aug 07, 2020
The Beirut Explosion – Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? Is It A Faked Video Of A Missile?
bellingcat Aug 06, 2020
Bellingcat and Newsy Nominated for Emmy Award
bellingcat Aug 04, 2020
What Just Blew Up In Beirut?
bellingcat Jul 31, 2020
Corruption in Coronavirus-Related Public Tenders in Georgia
bellingcat Jul 28, 2020
The Bellingcat Podcast Season 2 – The Hunt
bellingcat Jul 24, 2020
Yemen’s Disappearing Date Palms: Applied Environmental OSINT
bellingcat Jul 21, 2020
The Bellingcat Podcast Season 2 – The Executions
bellingcat Jul 20, 2020
What You Need To Know About The Battle of Portland
bellingcat Jul 18, 2020
World’s Most Wanted Man Jan Marsalek Located in Belarus; Data Points to Russian Intel Links
bellingcat Jul 17, 2020
Ghost In The Machine: From Chad, A Case Study On Why You Shouldn’t Blindly Trust Tech
bellingcat Jul 14, 2020
Help Bellingcat Launch its New Website
bellingcat Jul 10, 2020
Migrants From Another World: Introduction To The Project
bellingcat Jul 09, 2020
“K” for Kurator, or Catch Me If You Can
bellingcat Jul 04, 2020
Russian interference in North Macedonia: A View Before the Elections
bellingcat Jul 03, 2020
BellingChat Episode 4 – Return to the MH17 Trial, and More Russian Spy Shenanigans
bellingcat Jun 30, 2020
The Mystery of the Missing £5.6 Million
bellingcat Jun 29, 2020
FSB’s Magnificent Seven: New Links between Berlin and Istanbul Assassinations
bellingcat Jun 25, 2020
Crisis Actors As Defense Witnesses: Pulatov’s Defense Strategy In The MH17 Trial
bellingcat Jun 23, 2020
How To Track Desert Locust Swarms
bellingcat Jun 23, 2020
Masked Men On A Hellenic Coast Guard Boat Involved In Pushback Incident
bellingcat Jun 18, 2020
Levijatan: Serbian Animal Rights Vigilantes Go To The Polls
bellingcat Jun 16, 2020
BellingChat Episode 3 – Hunting the The Salisbury Poisonings Suspects
bellingcat Jun 11, 2020
BellingChat Episode 2 – Racism Today
bellingcat Jun 05, 2020
BellingChat Episode 1 – MH17: Past, Present, and Future
bellingcat Jun 05, 2020
Visualizing Police Violence Against Journalists At Protests Across The U.S
bellingcat Jun 04, 2020
Investigating One Case of Civilian Harm In Afghanistan