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7 secrets the internet's best sleuths use to build eye-popping investigations against dictators, war criminals, and Putin's assassins
7 secrets the internet's best sleuths use to build eye-popping investigations against dictators, war criminals, and Putin's assassins
Sam FellmanMar 27, 2021, 04:21 IST
Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, authored a new book on the investigative outlet and their open-source techniques.Tolga Akmen/Getty Images
Founder of Bellingcat describes, in a new book, ways to parse the internet for fact and fiction.
The journalism cooperative revealed who shot down a jetliner and the identities of Russian assassins.
From geo-location to reverse image search, these tips will help you know what you can trust.
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Get detail-obsessed
Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, authored a new book on the investigative outlet and their open-source techniques.
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Get aerial
Google Street View
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Reverse image search
To reverse image search on Google, click the camera for "Search by Image" and link to the image or upload it.
Google
Get the digits
International investigators have accused Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy, Oleg Pulatov, and Leonid Kharchenko of the missile attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014.
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'Lateral thinking'
A Facebook like button is pictured at the Facebook's France headquarters in Paris
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Create a social feed
A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria, April 4, 2017.
REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
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Team up
A photo from the crash site shared by the Dutch Safety Board shows the plane's exterior near the cockpit window "containing numerous small holes and indentations."
Dutch Safety Board