Open-source investigation is a tool anybody can use; as it spreads, it will inevitably mingle with the sort of delirium and propaganda that Eliot Higgins has always meant it to cut through ...

It was the work of an investigations unit at The New York Times that specializes in open-source reporting, using publicly available material like satellite images, mobile phone or security camera ...

Prevention when working on open source platforms When working with media on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook there are several tools to reduce the risk of secondary trauma. When you are working with a ...

A team of authors tackle these questions in their new book "Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google." This new interdisciplinary book seeks to answer these questions and more, with ...

If you just tack these methods on top of traditional journalism, you’re missing a lot of what has made the open source investigations community so strong, which is the spirit of innovation and ...

Oct 30, 2018 in Information Integrity Myself and others at First Draft frequently receive emails from a whole range of people asking how they can start doing the sort of online open source ...

Places like Bellingcat that have really pioneered this open-source investigations do not reach out and try to find the owner of the photo. They feel like that actually taints their investigation.

It was the work of an investigations unit at The New York Times that specializes in open-source reporting, using publicly available material like satellite images, mobile phone or security camera ...