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Benjamin Strick
@BenDoBrown
Open Source Investigator - OSINT|GEOINT|Disinfo Tutorials: youtube.com/Bendobrown
CIR - PREV BBC & Bellingcat
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Feb 1, 2021
    Hi. I regularly get asked for free training sessions & workshops and love sharing research skills, so I've made these tutorials on YouTube with more coming. I hope it helps. Here is the #OSINT At Home playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=… This video is a snippet of the content ✌️
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    Benjamin Strick
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    Feb 24, 2024
    I’ll never forget this video. It was Sasha's last meeting with his parents two years ago on 02/24/22. His parents saw him off as he went to fight Russia’s invading forces. His sister found the video on his iCloud after he died defending Ukraine’s Mariupol.
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    May 26, 2024
    In April, CNN journalists were led to the 'home' of Haitian gang lord Vitel’homme Innocent and interviewed him. He is on @FBIMostWanted's Top 10, with a bounty of up to $2 million. I mapped their drive and found his home here: 18.5278, -72.2314. Here's how👇🧵
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Aug 28, 2024
    A network of fake accounts are posing as young American women, posting pro-Trump content and disinformation, but they’re hiding behind, and manipulating, the images of European fashion influencers. Our latest investigation at @Cen4infoRes. Details in this thread 🧵👇
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    Benjamin Strick
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    Jul 9, 2024
    Today US DoJ announced seizure of two domains and the search of 968 accounts on X used in a "Russian-government backed campaign" to spread disinformation. Affidavit includes all of the accounts requested from X 👇
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Apr 10, 2022
    Pro-Russian accounts and 'fake news' sites are trying to claim that satellite imagery from @maxar, posted by @nytimes, showing bodies on the streets of Ukraine's Bucha are fake, but in this thread, you're going to see how silly pro-Russian disinformation attempts can be 🧵👇
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Nov 24, 2021
    A coordinated network of fake accounts posed as Sikh personas to promote the Indian Govt, nationalism & label Sikh activists as terrorists. They claimed they were #RealSikhs, but were far from it. News on our investigation: bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… Here is an explainer thread👇
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    May 12, 2022
    A new 'immersive mode' is coming to Google Maps soon, which fuses together billions of street view and aerial images to create a digital model of the world. More here: blog.google/products/maps/…
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    Benjamin Strick
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    Jan 14, 2023
    Replying to @curiosityonx
    In 2018… x.com/nasa_ice/statu…
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    ARCHIVED - NASA Ice
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    Oct 17, 2018
    From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Mar 21, 2021
    CTRL + C & CTRL + V.
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Nov 3, 2025
    There are a lot of horrific images, videos and even satellite images you can use to show the horrors that are happening in Sudan. But this is a watering hole and those are animals. Note it was also there in March 2022.
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Oct 8, 2022
    Six months ago Ukraine’s Kramatorsk train station was bombed, killing civilians trying to flee the war. The Kremlin denied responsibility. Today, at @Cen4infoRes, we publish this report, showing how the rockets were fired from a Russian-controlled area. info-res.org/post/verificat…
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Mar 7, 2021
    India's Modi Government marketing team is in full drive today. More than 1 million tweets on #ModirSatheBrigade pushing it to #1 on Twitter today during Modi's visit to West Bengal (getdaytrends.com/india/3/). As to expect, lots of copy&paste text.
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    Benjamin Strick
    @BenDoBrown
    Sep 18, 2024
    I was recently on a flight across Australia when I spotted this massive figure on the ground. It led me on a digital journey to find out what it was, how it got there and who made it. I'm going to explain a bit more about what it is in this thread, and how I found out. 👇🧵
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