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In-Person Workshop in New York on March 24-28, 2025

Hello all dear Patrons,

We are organising a new in-person workshop in New York on March 24-28, 2025 on digital investigation techniques.  2025-02-04 14:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Investigating AI-generated child sexual abuse material

Content warning: This episode discusses child sexual abuse material and non-consensual pornography.

In December’s edition of Bellingchat Premium, Bellingcat senior researcher and trainer Kolina Koltai...

An Interview With Eliot Higgins on Bellingcat's 10-year Anniversary

On this free edition of Bellingchat Premium we are sharing a recent on-stage interview given by our founder, Eliot Higgins. 

Conducted at Bellingfest, our 10-year anniversary event, Eliot spoke to moderator and tech journalist Monique v...

ChatGPT and Open Source Investigations

On this month’s edition of Bellingchat Premium, Edward Tian discusses Artificial Intelligence, large language models and how open source investigators can use new tools being created with these technologies.

Edward is a long-time Be...

Investigating the Invasion of Ukraine Using Open Sources

In a special edition, recorded for the two year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Editor Maxim Edwards explores how Bellingcat has worked to cover the conflict with researcher Michael Sheldon and former staff member, and now ...

Aric Toler on the Improbable Journey of a US Intelligence Leak

On this month’s edition of Bellingchat Premium, Aric Toler discusses the recent leak of hundreds of US intelligence documents by an Air National Guardsman. Aric also details how he tracked the source of the leak via Telegram, 4chan and several s...

April 11: Advanced Scraping Webinar (4 hours)

This webinar requires prerequisite knowledge of the command line and of programming. A registration link to the workshop can be acquired through the completion of a simple task that will prove prerequisite competency for the training, found <...

Geolocating a Life of Luxury in Dubai

In this month’s edition of Bellingchat Premium, Miguel Ramalho and Lucy Swinnen discuss Miguel’s latest article that uses open source techniques to investigate the whereabouts of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos.

You can read Miguel...

Free Content: Strategies for Working with Traumatic Materials

In this recording of a Discord Stage Talk that took place in July 2022, Bellingcat researchers Annique Mossou and Giancarlo Fiorella go over a list of tips and suggestions for working with traumatic materials within the context of open source rese...

How to Get a Job as an Open Source Researcher

Bellingcat’s Giancarlo Fiorella, Hannah Bagdasar, Aric Toler and Tristan Lee recently held a Discord Stage Talk where they discussed their beginnings as open source researchers and how they turned their passion into a career. Long-time Bellingca...

Bellingchat Premium: Russia’s QAnon Followers Can’t Make Up Their Minds About Ukraine

On this month's Bellingchat Premium, Aiganysh Aidarbekova discusses how Russian QAnon channels are interpreting the Ukraine conflict.

While a variety of international QAnon channels have praised President Putin, some QAnon followers in Russi...

Free Content: How to Analyse Data Leaks

Bellingcat's Aric Toler and Logan Williams recently held a Twitter Space to discuss accessing and analysing data leaks that have come out of Russia in recent months. Aric and Logan also took questions from listeners on some of the issues around un...

How To Conduct Geolocation

In an exclusive video for our Patreon subscribers, Giancarlo Fiorella explains the concept of geolocation and how it can be put to use by online investigators.

You can ...

Bellingchat Premium: Specialised Satellite Imagery And Crowdsourcing Sites To Investigate

On this month’s Bellingchat Premium, senior researcher Nick Waters talks to Eoghan Macguire about Bellingcat's latest resource -- the ability to send a satellite to capture imagery of any location on earth. 

Bellingcat has purchased a...

Bellingchat Premium: How Schoolchildren Became Pawns in Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis

Last month, Bellingcat published an in-depth piece about the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon. It detailed several brutal incidents of schoolchildren being kidnapped or, in the worst instances, killed.

In this episode of Bellingchat Premium, Ma...

Bellingchat Premium: US Service Members Expose Nuclear Secrets Via Flashcard Apps

Eoghan Macguire speaks to Foeke Postma about how he discovered US service members stationed on bases where nuclear weapons are stored in Europe were exposing a multitude of sensitive security details via flashcard apps.

The troops posted inf...

Bellingchat Premium: Open Source Evidence in Court

Eoghan Macguire speaks with Nick Waters about a recent mock hearing that sought to test the admissibility of open source evidence in a court setting.

The hearing featured a real judge and lawyers who argued over whether social media videos s...

Bellingchat Premium: Giancarlo Fiorella on The Storming of the US Capitol

Eoghan Macguire talks with Giancarlo Fiorella about the work Bellingcat has been doing to piece together the now notorious events of January 6 in Washington DC, when a disparate mob of Donald Trump supporters, conspiracy theorists and far-right gr...

Patreon Exclusive Video: MS Flight Simulator 2020 as a Verification Tool

Hello all!

Bellingcat researcher Giancarlo Fiorella put together a really cool video showing how Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (MSFS2020) can be used as a verification tool.

Giancarlo walks you through the entire process of lifting o...

Bellingchat: Robert Evans on Jacob Wohl

Natalia Antonova chats with Robert Evans about the internet's favorite, special boy: Jacob Wohl. He tries to grift, fails every time, and gives us a few OSINT lessons on what not to do along the way.

We're making this chat available...

Bellingchat: Nick Waters on Open Source Lessons of the Iranian Shootdown

Natalia Antonova chats with Nick Waters on the lessons on digital investigations with the recent shootdown of PS752 outside of Tehran.

With this brief chat, we're making it available to all of our patrons. You can read our investigation geol...

Bellingchat: Interview with Brenna Smith about Her CryptOSINT Newsletter

 Natalia Antonova chats with the Brenna Smith about her ongoing newsletter, CryptOSINT, which looks into the intersection between cryptocurrency and open source investigation. You can sign up to her newsletter 2019-12-09 22:10:33 +0000 UTC View Post