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OSINT-🎥:
OSINT-🧵:
OSINT-📰:
OSINT= Open Source INTelligence
It's basically using all things
#online
for
#research
.
I use
#OSINT
mainly as a
#factchecker
and
#journalist
@Knack
. 🤘
#HowToOSINT
🧐
#SpeurJeMee
? 🧐
Onder die hashtag verzamel ik vanaf nu de draadjes waarin ik het
#onderzoek
achter mijn
#FactChecks
voor
@knack
uitleg.
📌Hieronder een overzicht dat ik blijf aanvullen. 👇
#OSINT
🔎
#GeoLocation
🌍
#Verification
📸🎥
#FakeNews
#zoektips
#FactcheckZelf
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This picture was put online in Denmark 🇩🇰, shared 424K times and viewed by 44M people. 😲
@snopes
and
@Knack
got in contact with this woman for a
#FactCheck
. How did we find her? 👇👇👇1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#GeoLocation
🌎
#Verification
📸
#HowTo
#SpeurJeMee
?🧐
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1K
4K
"Ukrainians 🇺🇦 in the World Cup of Qatar 🇶🇦 arrested for spreading Nazi symbols."
This "report from Al Jazeera" gets 391K views on Telegram. 😲
Fake or real? Let's investigate!🧵👇1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
📽️
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
#WorldcupQatar2022
⚽️
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1K
3K
According to Russia 🇷🇺 "The unexpected reveal of "innocent patients" with assault rifles showcased how the Ukrainian military uses ambulances." 🚨
Their proof? A video of 21 sec.
What do we see? Investigate! 👇 1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
🎥
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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3K
🇺🇦 Ukrainian soldier: "We had orders to shoot to kill at any moving person, whether it was peaceful or not."
1.2M have seen this testimony on
#YouTube
.
May we take this interview as true? Investigate! 👇 1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
🎥
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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1K
@washingtonpost
What have we learned? 👩🏫
1)
#Propaganda
hides the truth,
#OSINT
reveals it. 🧐
2) Google Lens is a powerful tool to understand text on an image. ㊙️
3) More sources = more info = a better understanding of what really happened. 🦾 34/..
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@hannesmar1
CONCLUSION:
➡️ The reportage turns out to be FAKE.
➡️ It contains old and manipulated footage.
➡️ Al Jazeera's layout was mimicked and Al Jazeera denies it has anything to do with the fake report. 14/...
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@hannesmar1
We submit our findings to Al Jazeera. ❌❌❌
Their spokesperson Ihtisham Hibatullah responds: "Your conclusion that the video is completely fake is correct. Al Jazeera has never published this video or any other material related to it." 13/...
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A Russian missile 🇷🇺 killed at least three Ukrainian citizens 🇺🇦 on April 16 in Kyiv.
This was NO ordinary attack: it was initiated by volunteers using
#OSINT
🔎.
Investigation on ☠️ KILLER COORDINATES 📍
🧵👇 1/…
#Verification
📸🎥
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
@ArbiterOfTweets
Conclusion: the photo being circulated does not show 'a Russian girl tied up as a living shield in Mariupol'. ❌❌
It is a public pillory for alleged thieves in Lviv. According to various sources, they are Roma.
The images are used by Russian propaganda. 23/...
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@hannesmar1
What have we learned? 👩🏫
1) Always check different sources. If "news" is only news in ONE video, it's probably untrue. 🚫
2) Be aware of manipulated photos in video. 🖌️
3) Contact the "original source", which may have nothing to do with the report. 📧 14/...
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@washingtonpost
CONCLUSION: The images of Ukrainian soldiers getting out of a van with a red cross are real.
However, they are part of a longer video which contains several indications that it is a humanitarian evacuation from Irpin accompanied by Ukrainian soldiers. (1/2) 29/...
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@snopes
@Knack
@ConMonitorNews
@danmacg
@TjekDet
@abedrengen1791
What have we learned? 👩🏫
1) If your starting picture doesn't have enough clues, find other pictures with the same people and objects, . 📸
2) Use Facebook Search, because it can "read" text in pictures. 🔤
3) For viral pictures international collaboration is the way to go! 🌍💪
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
@ArbiterOfTweets
I just reported the Facebookgroup of The Hunters because it spreads violence and in this way is against the policy guidelines of Facebook.
I hope they respond. 24/...
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
@ArbiterOfTweets
@Knack
Did you learn something from this
#OSINT
for
#FactChecking
?
Follow me (
@brechtcastel
) and check out my channel on
#YouTube
: 🙏
Older 🧵🧵underneath this tweet: 15/15
#SpeurJeMee
? 🧐
Onder die hashtag verzamel ik vanaf nu de draadjes waarin ik het
#onderzoek
achter mijn
#FactChecks
voor
@knack
uitleg.
📌Hieronder een overzicht dat ik blijf aanvullen. 👇
#OSINT
🔎
#GeoLocation
🌍
#Verification
📸🎥
#FakeNews
#zoektips
#FactcheckZelf
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@hannesmar1
You can read my full article with all sources used here (
@Knack
) for FREE.👇15/16
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Ukrainian fans 🇺🇦 do appear in the video, BUT after a reverse search using Yandex, it turns out those Ukrainian fans already appear in a photo used on 4 February 2022 on a Russian sports site 🟥.
The photo in the report therefore predates the World Cup in Qatar. ❌8/...
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@snopes
@Knack
@ConMonitorNews
@danmacg
@TjekDet
@abedrengen1791
Did you like this 🧵with
#OSINT
for
#FactChecking
?
I have more (in Dutch
#SpeurJeMee
?🧐, but very visual) underneath this tweet. 👇
And follow me
@brechtcastel
for upcoming investigations! 🍻
#SpeurJeMee
? 🧐
Onder die hashtag verzamel ik vanaf nu de draadjes waarin ik het
#onderzoek
achter mijn
#FactChecks
voor
@knack
uitleg.
📌Hieronder een overzicht dat ik blijf aanvullen. 👇
#OSINT
🔎
#GeoLocation
🌍
#Verification
📸🎥
#FakeNews
#zoektips
#FactcheckZelf
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"Happy Birthday for Vladimir Putin from Belgium 🇧🇪" from men in army uniform with guns. 🤔
Let's investigate this deleted TikTok-video. 🧵👇1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
📽️
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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@washingtonpost
In this case, it seems to be an evacuation of civilians with the soldiers as an armed escort.
We found no evidence that these soldiers would have wounded or killed any enemies while using the van with the red cross.
So there is no evidence of a war crime here. 27/...
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
@ArbiterOfTweets
You can read my full article (in Dutch) here (
@Knack
). 👇26/27
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@AlJazeera
BUT on Al Jazeera's site, we find no trace of the news of the Ukrainian fans allegedly being arrested. 🤨
We find no trace of this on other (sports) news sites either. 🤨🤨 4/...
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@washingtonpost
That context was absent from the Twitter message under investigation.
Without that context, the message is misleading. ❌(2/2) 30/...
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@snopes
@Knack
@ConMonitorNews
@danmacg
This investigation was a collaboration among 🇧🇪
@Knack
, 🇺🇸
@snopes
(
@danmacg
) and 🇩🇰
@TjekDet
(
@abedrengen1791
).
🙏for the nice sharing of knowledge, guys!
My
#FactCheck
(in Dutch) right here. 👇25/27
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@snopes
@Knack
@ConMonitorNews
@danmacg
One thing is definetly NOT TRUE. ❌
It's not possible the woman had been working with corona patients "for 573 days".
573 days earlier - counting from August 7, 2021 - the date the photo was taken - it was January 12, 2020. 23/...
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Een miljoen mensen zien op TikTok en Facebook hoe de auto van de Franse president
#EmmanuelMacron
wordt aangevallen in
#Montpellier
.
Speur je mee naar de waarheid in dit 🧵? 🧐
(Met praktische tips voor eigen
#onderzoek
onderweg. 😉)
#FakeNews
#OSINT
#Geolocation
1/...
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In this short 🧵 I'll share the 4⃣ interactive maps I use when I have to verify or geolocate something happening in
#Ukraine
. 1/6
#OSINT
for
#FactChecking
#GeoLocation
#Verification
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Meteen een
#FactCheck
in het interview met Alain Maron (Ecolo). Zou eigenlijk altijd zo moeten zijn. Puik van
@destandaard
. 👍
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U verspreidt onzin,
@FDW_VB
.
Oude beelden uit 2018 uit Grenoble toen daar rellen uitbraken nadat Frankrijk het WK voetbal won.
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
@ArbiterOfTweets
What have we learned? 👩🏫
1) Comparing faces with Azure can help to verify if you see the same person. 😑
2) For
#GeoLocation
keep looking for more context. A local news report was crucial in this case. 📰
3) Homo homini lupus. 😭 25/27
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A photograph is easier to manipulate than moving images.
I analysed 👇 this with
@hannesmar1
: "Our analysis gives an indication that the part of the photo with "Sieg Heil" may have been manipulated."
Probably the German text was added to the original photo afterwards. ❌12/...
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We find this article from
@romeanews
, a news medium that focuses on the Roma community.
The article 'Russia distorts photos for propaganda purposes, Roma non-profits warn Ukrainian authorities' shows the photos investigated as illustrations. 6/...
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30.000 mensen bekeken op Facebook een gewelddadige video die toont dat 'Spanje 🇪🇸 het meer dan zat is'. Klopt dat?
Speur mee in dit draadje. 🔎🧵
We gebruiken geen Inverse Image Search, maar alleen
#Google
om de context van deze video te achterhalen.
#OSINT
#FactCheck
1/...
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The alleged arrest is also featured in the report (left).
We cannot trace the origin of that footage, but a specific feature on the officer's uniform 🟨 does not match the uniforms used by Qatari security forces during the World Cup (right). ❌ 9/...
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@washingtonpost
Is using a van with a red cross for this a war cirme?
Expert: "The red cross is for the identification of sanitary units. However, it is permitted for sanitary units to be armed or to have an armed escort..."
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@romeanews
According to the article, the photos show Roma in Lviv. They are allegedly purse-snatchers who were caught looting in Lviv by vigilantes and were then punished and humiliated in this awful way. 7/...
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@hannesmar1
@Knack
Did you learn something from this
#OSINT
for
#FactChecking
?
Follow me (
@brechtcastel
) and check out my channel on
#YouTube
: 🙏
Older 🧵🧵underneath this tweet: 16/END
#SpeurJeMee
? 🧐
Onder die hashtag verzamel ik vanaf nu de draadjes waarin ik het
#onderzoek
achter mijn
#FactChecks
voor
@knack
uitleg.
📌Hieronder een overzicht dat ik blijf aanvullen. 👇
#OSINT
🔎
#GeoLocation
🌍
#Verification
📸🎥
#FakeNews
#zoektips
#FactcheckZelf
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Deze nieuwe bot is een idee van
@ArbiterOfTweets
uitgewerkt door de geweldige
@thomas_wint
:
@ZoekNieuws
Geen berichten in de
#MSM
, dat is nu zéér snel gecheckt. Zie afbeelding voor illustratie ervan.
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@snopes
@Knack
@ConMonitorNews
@danmacg
The first confirmed corona case in the 🇺🇸 did not occur until January 20, 2020.
The first confirmed case in New Hampshire wasn't even there until March 2, 2020. 24/...
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This
#meme
shows an 'experiment' on
#GMO
🌽.
It went
#viral
multiple times in the last decade.
Do we see a scientific study by 'students in England'❓
I found who took these pictures. How? 👇👇👇 1/..
#OSINT
🔎
#GeoLocation
🌎
#Verification
📸
#SpeurJeMee
? 🧐
#HowToOSINT
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250K views for a terrifying video from Nukus,
#Karakalpakstan
.
A street "covered in the blood of protesters" or "red paint"?
Investigation by
@Lotte_Lambrecht
and me. 🧵👇1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
🎥
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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This brings us to a post from 21 March on Zen Yandex.
There we see the same photo 🟥 along with six other similar photos.
The Russian caption reads: "The year 2022. Europe. The usual Nazism in Lviv. Now to ethnicity. The photos feature members of the Roma diaspora." 3/...
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😲116K people watched this video of a collapsed football player on
#Twitter
. ⚽️
No
#context
is given, so
#rumours
start.
What happened? Let's find out! 👇👇👇 1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
🎥
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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A remarkable image from the report is the vandalism allegedly done by Ukrainians to the World Cup mascot, La'eeb. 👻
We see a Hitler moustache and "Sieg Heil".
A closer look at this scene reveals that it is NOT a video recording, but a still photo that is animated. 11/...
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🔊 Al Jazeera reporter Mahmoud Zaibak talks about 'civilians being evacuated from
#Irpin
'.
He describes that he sees 'ambulances arriving' and that we see 'Ukrainian forces helping with the evacuation'.
This is not mentioned in the Russian source. ❌ 18/...
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@washingtonpost
"... Beyond that, its use is forbidden and a violation of the Geneva Conventions, but only a war crime if this emblem is misused for the purpose of killing or wounding the enemy'." 26/...
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2M people have seen this picture on
#Telegram
(without blur): "🇷🇺 Russian soldier was chained [...] tortured and [...] set on fire while still alive."
What do we see? Investigate! 👇 1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
📸
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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@washingtonpost
In the AJ video we only see the soldiers getting out of the van.
Where they came from, whether they helped with the evacuation and what their exact task was at that moment, is not immediately apparent.
In the WP video we do see that the soldiers actively helping refugees. 22/.
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@AlJazeera
Are the images in the report real?
We take a screenshot when we see football supporters at a stadium. We upload that screenshot to Google Lens.
According to that search engine, we see the Al Bayt stadium in Qatar 🟥. 5/...
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Whether the footage of the arrest is effectively from Qatar is questionable. 👆
Moreover, the people being arrested are blurred. 👇Impossible to verify whether they are Ukrainian football fans.❌10/...
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@washingtonpost
We contacted the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine:
"The van from which the soldiers come is not an ICRC-van. The ICRC was not involved in the evacuation from Irpin either. This vehicle may belong to the Ukrainian Red Cross or to volunteers." 28/...
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@washingtonpost
All these elements ☝️ indicate that these soldiers were somehow involved in the evacuation of civilians from
#Irpin
. 24/...
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@AlJazeera
We conclude from this 👆 that the viral reportage does indeed use recent footage from Qatar. 🇶🇦📍
BUT these are general background images that can be found in many news reports.
They do NOT specifically show the news: the alleged arrest of the Ukrainian fans. 7/...
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11.8 M people have seen this video on
#TikTok
. 😲
A quiet scene at a beach 🏖️ with a huge explosion in the background. 🔥
What do we see? Investigate! 🧵👇 1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
📽️
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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@AlJazeera
If we compare a live report by Sky News from 20 November at that stadium (left) with the viral video (right), we see the same inscriptions about the World Cup 🟨, the same striking trees 🟩 and the distinctive architecture of the Al Bayt Stadium 🟥. 6/...
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The same pictures are shared by a Geman journalist from Bild. 👇
Again is stated this is Lviv and we see Roma. No mention of Mariupol or 'living shields'. 4/...
Ukrainian news channel gleefully shares pictures allegedly showing Roma refugees from Kyiv tied and humiliated in Lviv: "How long do you think until they will start stealing again?"
(Faces blurred by me, faces of victims smeared with green paint).
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However these 👆 are not reliable sources that know the local context. So we search further.
We google with the search terms Lviv, gypsies and treatment. 5/...
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@washingtonpost
Notice the man on the left❗️
If we compare him to one of the soldiers in the AJ video, it turns out to be the same soldier.
In the cropping you see him in the WP video and on the right in the AJ video.
His hat, beard, weapon and visual features of his uniform match. ✅ 23/.
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We all have seen Ukrainian tractors 🇺🇦 dragging Russian tanks 🇷🇺.
Where do they go? 🤔
We traced the “V5” in this
#TikTok
. It reveals France 🇫🇷 breaking the arms embargo against Russia.
Investigate! 🧵👇 1/…
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
📽️
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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🌎📉Deze grafiek ging al meermaals viraal bij klimaattwijfelaars en -ontkenners.
In dit🧵zoek je mee naar antwoorden op 3 vragen:
1) Waarom?
2) Hoe komt het dat de zeespiegel daalt in Zweden?
3) Hoe doe je je voor als een klimaatwetenschapper? 1/...
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Footage of violence spreads like wildfire.🔥🔞
Often it’s used to blame a group of people: Ukrainian refugees in this case.
How to investigate such videos? I have 4⃣ easy steps for you. 🧵👇 1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
🎥
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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On 27 March
@washingtonpost
published an article about the same evacuation from Irpin. 👇
Above that article is a video. 🤔20/...
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We take a screenshot of the photo and load it into the Russian search engine Yandex. 2/...
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
This article helps us to find the location of the picture.
An intersection north of Lviv in Google Streetview (left) matches with one of the photos (right).
We see the same beverage tent 🟨 and the same gas station 🟥 in the background. 13/...
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@washingtonpost
You can read my full article with all sources used here (
@Knack
) for FREE. 👇
Big thanks 🙏 to
@Techjournalisto
,
@akhmxt
and
@ArchitMeta
for digging together. 👷 32/...
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@romeanews
According to
@romeanews
there is "a group in Lviv calling itself 'The Hunters' who prosecute Roma involved in pickpocketing".
Is this group 'The Hunters' responsible for this hatred of Roma? 👇 8/...
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The video posted on Twitter by the Russian Foreign Ministry lasts only 21 seconds and does not show the whole situation.
The original report from Al Jazeera lasts 2 minutes and 32 seconds. Important elements are not shown in the Russian version. 👇👇👇 16/...
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@romeanews
Ukrainian human rights organisation
@zminaUkraine
wrote about The Hunters in early 2021 when a Roma, suspected of stealing, was forced to crawl on his hands and knees and beaten.
The 'vigilante group' was established in 2018. 9/...
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3.3M views for this video by
@EuromaidanPress
:
"American 🇺🇸 infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland 🇵🇱 [...] toward the Ukrainian border 🇺🇦. "
TRUE ✅ or FALSE ❌? Investigate! 🧵👇 1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
🎥
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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This video has over 100K views, but I don't think it's from Turkey. 🤔
I have no
#geolocation
yet, but some things don't feel correct.
Let's collaborate on this on. I'll share my findings so far in this thread. 👇🧵
#OSINT
All info welcome.
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We see a Ukrainian fireman moving someone in a wheelchair (00:41). We also see other wheelchairs in the background. 17/...
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Video of people breaking into a Decathlon store and stealing bikes 🚲 goes viral.
It's linked to recent riots in Brussels 🇧🇪 after Morocco's wins at the World Cup ⚽️.
WHY the press remains silent? 🤔 Investigate! 🧵👇1/...
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
📽️
#GeoLocation
🌍
#HowToOSINT
🧐
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He is an eyewitness of what happened! 👀💯
We contacted him via e-mail, LinkedIn and Twitter, but he didn't want to respond to our questions. ☹️12/...
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@AlJazeera
The video features Al Jazeera's official logo 👆, has high quality and looks professionally made.
Any video on (right) has an almost identical layout to the video circulating on social media (left). 3/...
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The investigation on this tweet from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia is a team effort together with
@Techjournalisto
,
@ArchitMeta
and
@akhmxt
.
(Follow them if you like these kind of
#OSINT
-investigations.)
The short video is viewed more than 110K times. 2/...
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@washingtonpost
This video was shot at the same location as the Al Jazeera video. 📍
This becomes clear when we compare visual elements: a window 🟥, the tent opening 🟩 and the wall in the background 🟦 match. ✅ 21/...
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😱 "LeGe ZiEkeNhUiSbEdDeN!" 😱
Het is vaak een argument om de
#coronapandemie
te minimaliseren of af te doen als een
#hoax
.
Onderzoek je in dit 🧵mee dit "bewijs"? 🧐
#FakeNews
#OSINT
#Geolocation
#ViralVideo
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Mijn interview met ex-complotdenker Sarah wordt veel gelezen. 🙏
Veel mensen kennen iemand die is afgegleden naar
#complotdenken
.
Ken je ook zo iemand? Hoe ga je dan met hem/haar in gesprek?🗣️
Dit zijn enkele tips van experten. 👇👇👇1/7
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@snopes
@Knack
@ConMonitorNews
@danmacg
We get in contact with her, but she didn't want to answer our questions.
❓ Did she work with covid patients? Didn't she got covid herself? Is she unvaccinated? We don't know.
Everything we could find is in this article: 22/...
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
Not all elements match, as the Streetview photo is from July 2015. The building then under construction is completed on 21 March 2022 🟩. The pole to which the girl is tied was not yet there in 2015.
Nonetheless, geolocation ✅. 14/...
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By taking the background of the footage, the residential building, it was possible to pin the location to a place right between Irpin and Kyiv city. 📍
Geolocation. ✅
The timefunction on Google Streetview shows it's should be post 2019. 8/...
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"Three drunken Ukrainian supporters were arrested in Qatar. The reason? They made a Nazi salute and vandalised posters at the Al Bayt stadium by drawing a Hitler moustache on the World Cup mascot La'eeb. When arrested, they showed no resistance."
Source:
@AlJazeera
Really? 🤔2/
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We found the original footage from Al Jazeera:
The reporter is said to be Mahmoud Zaibak.
Analysis with
#Azure
shows that his profile picture on Twitter (right) is with 79% certainty the same person as the reporter in the video (left). 11/...
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🏔️Probably you have seen this breathtaking video of an avalanche. 😲 Everyone survived.
Where was it shot? 📍
Let’s do some
#GeoLocation
🌍! 🧵👇 1/…
#OSINT
🔎
#Verification
🎥
#HowToOSINT
🧐
Check out this incredible avalanche footage from the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Luckily, everyone survived. Account:
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
At the pillories for looters - or in this case, alleged thieves - the hands and faces are more often coloured green.
This is zelyonka, an antiseptic dye that can be removed from the skin only with great difficulty. 20/...
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This ambulance in the background gives us more clues about where this might be.
We take a screenshot of it and load it into the Russian search engine Yandex, which is how we find similar vehicles 🟨. 6/...
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
@ArbiterOfTweets
analysed more of this kind of pictures: "In Ukraine citizens are currently being tied to poles and beaten. Moreover, images of this are being fully exploited - and partly misrepresented - by the Russian camp in the info war." 21/...
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When was the video recorded?
We find different versions of the video on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
The oldest version we find online dates from 30 March 🟥. 9/...
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➡️ So, we continue our search with the info online.
Who are these five people getting out of the van?
Everything indicates that they are indeed Ukrainian soldiers.
They are dressed in camouflage, wear 🟦 armbands and 🇺🇦 is visible on a uniform 🟨. 13/...
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We translate the Arabic caption with Google Lens: "end of the first day of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul".
This was on Tuesday 29 March 2022.
Since the video has the form of a live stand-up, it was probably recorded on that day. ⏲️✅10/...
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
If we compare a photo taken on 21 March (left) with the video taken on 11 March (right) using Microsoft's Azure face recognition software, the software says that both photos show the same person.
The certainty of this is 76.2%. (Again, I blurred faces afterwards.) 18/...
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Irpin is a town close to Kyiv where heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops was going on for weeks.
Irpin is 8 kilometres from the place where the video was shot. It is therefore plausible that evacuees arrived here. 19/...
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Ken je iemand die twijfelt aan de echtheid van covid-19 of die zwaar twijfelt aan de veiligheid van coronavaccins?
Gebruikt die persoon Facebook, dan is de kans groot dat hij/zij al eens een bericht van advocaat Carine Knapen zag passeren.
Een 🧵met wat
#factchecks
voor u.
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Armed men emerge from a van bearing the logo of the Red Cross.
The International Red Cross (ICRC) has a neutral status, also in the war in
#Ukraine
.
Do we see a recent war crime by the Ukrainian army in this clip? 3/...
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@romeanews
@zminaUkraine
So probably that Roma girl fell into the hands of The Hunters before.
The images of these girls are not the only ones circulating, showing a kind of 'public justice' in Ukraine nowadays. 19/...
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UPDATE 1: The Russian embassy 🇷🇺 in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 also shared the fake report on Twitter. ❌
👇❌Ook de Russische ambassade in het Verenigd Koninkrijk deelde de nepreportage op Twitter.
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