Global Authentication Project

Bellingcat's Global Authentication Project
A network of volunteer investigators

[Global Authentication Project @bellingcatgap]

Updates to the toolkit were made after consultation with our community and with help from our community! Find the new toolkit, packed full with OSINT tools for all experience levels and types of researcher below 👇

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Great news! Bellingcat just launched the new Online Investigations Toolkit. In the toolkit you can discover tools for everything from satellite imagery analysis, to social media scraping, transportation tracking or archiving research material. https://t.co/FaeMqX6gUX

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Last week Johanna joined us for a Bellingcat stage talk to discuss the new Bellingcat Online Investigations Toolkit, an ongoing project developed and produced in partnership with our volunteer community. https://t.co/wdJU6wSdNt

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

On October 24th, our own @Johanna_Wild will be giving a free webinar on how we work with our community (@bellingcatgap) to build new tools and investigate everything from war crimes to oil spills. The talk is in partnership with @BKCHarvard and @niemanfdn. https://t.co/k60DA9m3hO

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Our Justice & Accountability team is looking for an open source analyst on a part-time consultancy contract basis. They will collect and analyse information from open sources regarding the conflict in Palestine and Israel which will be used for accountability purposes...🧵

[Global Authentication Project @bellingcatgap]

We’d love to hear from you! Let us know in the comments what you'd like to learn more about regarding our community and our collaborative approach to open-source investigations.

[Global Authentication Project @bellingcatgap]

We're back with some news from our community efforts! 💻🧵

[Global Authentication Project @bellingcatgap]

🤔 Curious about how our community is organised and how members contribute to research projects? We've added a new section on our public homepage that covers just that: https://t.co/YBph7B9m21

[Johanna Wild @Johanna_Wild]

Do you work on geolocations together with others? This tool prevents you from all checking out the same locations on satellite imagery: You can now assign each person to specific squares. https://t.co/asIErnHcI3

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Tell us where to point satellites to take high quality satellite imagery! 🛰️
Put the coordinates of the area of interest and why it is important for research purposes in the comments. We will select a few of your suggestions to publish with analysis by Bellingcat researchers...

[Galen Reich @Galen_Reich]

We've made the @bellingcat Search Grid Generator even better!

Working with the amazing folks in @bellingcatgap and @projectowlosint, we're always looking to build new tools for the #OSINT community💪

Try it now➡️https://t.co/NpV98WyqFv

Read the guide📔https://t.co/T6w5YTBSBB

[Global Authentication Project @bellingcatgap]

Have input into Bellingcat's open source tool development by joining our community! Either through our public discord: https://t.co/AdWUijYdKN
Contributing on GitHub: https://t.co/BOAbk1nzpo
Or via our formal volunteer community: https://t.co/5ZNLmi0bSZ

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

🚨New tool alert! Bellingcat's Search Grid Generator helps you investigate an area of interest square by square. Put in coordinates and it will create a grid file for you that can be used in Google Earth. The idea for the tool was formed by @bellingcatgap. https://t.co/A0kxaN9S8G

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Bellingcat first investigated Finland’s ‘White Boy Summer Fest’ (WBS) in 2023. With the help of @bellingcatgap and our Discord community, we geolocated both the 2023 and 2022 events to two separate rural campgrounds in the Kanta-Häme region. https://t.co/ABTMt3fZy4

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

The secretive far-right festival ‘White Boy Summer’ is back; an event experts warn is used to grow extremist networks. @colbornemichael and Bellingcat community member @niemisentee reveal the hidden location and nature of the event organised by neo-nazis…https://t.co/NNs3MhJJxI

[Global Authentication Project @bellingcatgap]

Stay tuned for more updates in Q3! And don't forget, if you want to find out more about our community, you can check out our site here: https://t.co/5ZNLmi0JIx

[Global Authentication Project @bellingcatgap]

👋 Hello! We're delighted to share our most recent news with our supporters - YOU! Our updates this quarter include mental health resources, exciting projects including a refresh of our Bellingcat toolkit and a growth in our volunteer community... 🧵

[Global Authentication Project @bellingcatgap]

🥳 Lastly, we just celebrated the 4th anniversary of our public Discord server with an all-day AMA featuring different team members at Bellingcat. Our Volunteer Community Lead answered questions about our work. You can revisit the AMA here: https://t.co/y8YzKSLnb9