Sarah Schmidt

Journalist | 🇩🇪🇺🇸| OSINT, verification, investigations | ✍️🎙️@dlf, @correctiv_fakt, @tagesschau

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Quote: "This is how USAID spent your tax dollars"

I think people have lost the will to try fact-check this guy due to the volume of lies he spreads.

Also it's actually pretty difficult with this image and quite time consuming.

It just happens I had nothing better to do. /1

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

On the first day of the war, U.S. precision strikes killed 120 children at a school and 21 civilians at/near a sports hall. Just last night, precision strikes destroyed a drinking water facility serving 20,000 people in 100°F heat. “Very precise, very controlled.”

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Version of AI tool too powerful for public released to public https://t.co/2HtI4UJCTW

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️

Read more at Fight for the Future 👇
https://t.co/xZKCrJuyZs

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@doctorow @maddow

[Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ @Knibbs]

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: https://t.co/1WwaRQ57Ji

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Is Apple deleting place names from its map of southern Lebanon?

I emailed Apple to fact check this viral claim & I’m publishing its bullshit response in full as a teachable moment.

This ‘on background’ crap is how tech companies avoid accountability.
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[Aric Toler @AricToler]

This access change includes Gaza and Lebanon, not just Iran and Gulf states with US bases. Planet has been absolutely amazing, and their imagery has led to dozens of stories/scoops, with Gaza/Lebanon in particular.

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay

[GIJN Africa @gijnAfrica]

Going forward, two major commercial satellite imagery companies will apply a two-week hold on all images in the companies’ image archives. https://t.co/c5SxvivZ3Y

[Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway]

I spoke with @BBCNews for this important story about the U.S. air strike on an Iranian girls' school.

Take a listen (link in reply):

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

I hope that if there's one thing that this Iran conflict and the explosion of online misinformation about it has laid bare for most people is the significance of content verification and fact-checking in the digital age.

AI cannot replace human verification, at least not yet.

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

Here's Grok with yet another totally false verification, which has actively contributed to the spread of disinformation on this app.

This time, Grok falsely claims that a video of Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the nation is AI-generated becuase he has six fingers in it.

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

Pete Hegseth gutted the Pentagon offices that would have investigated the strike on an Iranian girls’ school.

The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence went from 200 employees to 20, with only 1 left investigating civilian casualties in the Middle East https://t.co/WFjT08qY2u

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

The Feb. 28 strike on the elementary school was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S., preliminary inquiry says: “U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.” https://t.co/sgMwh2wRz1

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority. https://t.co/wNKV4AFQOh

[Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner]

A new interview with Oona Hathaway about the manner in which America and Israel are fighting this war against Iran. https://t.co/yrHUrME1tq

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Minab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible? Trump has blamed Iran for the mass killing at Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school but geolocation, videos and satellite imagery indicate otherwise. https://t.co/SPRBIP0Itj

[Sarah Schmidt @sarahmschmidt]

@ungemeve Und ja, ich behaupte nicht, dass es sich bei der gezielten Zerstörung der Schule definitiv um ein Kriegsverbrechen handelt. Ob etwas ein Verbrechen ist oder nicht, wird in Gerichtsprozessen verhandelt und nicht auf Twitter. Sie behaupten aber, es könnte gar keins sein.

[Sarah Schmidt @sarahmschmidt]

@ungemeve Sie behaupten in Ihrem Ausgangspost, für ein Kriegsverbrechen müsse zwingend eine Absicht vorliegen.
Das Paper (und andere Experten) widersprechen dem. Auf welche Expertise stützen Sie Ihre doch sehr absolute Behauptung?

[Malachy Browne @malachybrowne]

'Made in USA' and Department of Defense codes imprinted on weapons fragments used to make American Tomahawks and seen in photos by Iran near bombed Minab school. Latest story w/ @trbrtc & @johnismay

https://t.co/HX7aQaGv2s