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Fugitive US Militant Ammon Bundy Geolocated to Utah

In February 2024, American anti-government agitator Ammon Bundy posted a video with a provocative title to his YouTube channel: ‘Want to know where Ammon Bundy is?’  Earlier in 2023, Bundy was ordered by an Idaho court to pay more than US$50 million in damages after accusing the state’s largest hospital of child trafficking and leading a campaign...

Thu Mar 28, 2024 00:47
How to Get Started: Investigating Payment Gateways Online

When investigating a website, app, or online shop, one of the key questions you may need to answer is ‘How are they making money?’  Investigating the financial transactions of an organisation can reveal details about its connections and funding. Furthermore, if the website or app is engaged in illicit transactions, tracing the payment gateway...

Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:08
Gaza’s Trees Disappear, Showing a Humanitarian Crisis

Israel’s continued offensive has ravaged Gaza. It has polluted the soil, water and air, compounding a humanitarian crisis which the UN recently characterised as “imminent famine”. Reuters recently reported that starving civilians had resorted to eating the leaves of prickly pear cactuses to stave off hunger. Such acts mean that, while Gaza’s environment...

Sat Mar 16, 2024 00:04
Open Source In Short: Geolocating a US Far-Right Fight Night

When white nationalists met up in a small town in north Texas to take part in yet another fight night event, we set about locating where it took place. On March 8, 2024, a Telegram channel associated with US far-right extremist Robert Rundo posted eight photos of the combat sports event (Bellingcat is not naming the outlet to avoid amplification)....

Fri Mar 15, 2024 19:31
Footage Captures Moment that 12-year-old Palestinian is Fatally Shot in Shuafat Refugee Camp

Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Rami Hamdan Al-Halhouli in Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem on Tuesday. The boy can be seen in this footage lighting a firework on the street and moving in the direction of the Separation Barrier, moments later a shot can be heard and the boy falls to the ground....

Thu Mar 14, 2024 00:05
How Code Notebooks Enable Open Source Research

Bellingcat has also published a repository of open source notebooks which you can find on our GitHub here The number of open source tools out there is growing rapidly, but technical bars to entry mean they remain inaccessible to many researchers. GitHub, a platform where developers share and discuss their code, is home to many of these...

Wed Mar 6, 2024 17:59

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