ACLED @acleddata.bsky.social Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) is an independent, impartial, international NGO collecting data on violent conflict and protests globally.
C4ADS @c4ads.org We're a nonprofit organization with a mission to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security. RT ≠ endorsement. Learn more at https://c4ads.org/.
OpenFacto @openfacto.bsky.social Association francophone qui promeut les recherches en sources ouvertes. Enquêtes, formations et assistance aux rédactions et ONG.
openfacto.fr
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Amnesty International @amnesty.org We defend human rights around the world.
No government is beyond scrutiny, no situation is beyond hope.
Let's get to work!
For media enquiries, please contact us at press@amnesty.org
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social Data and visual investigations at The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/by/karen-yourish
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Jodi Kantor @jodikantor.bsky.social NY Times investigative reporter. Co-author of SHE SAID, about how Megan Twohey and I broke the Weinstein story. Now focused on illuminating the Supreme Court.
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
Brady Africk @bradyafr.bsky.social Data, maps, and satellite imagery 🛰🌻🔭
viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.com
GeoConfirmed @geoconfirmed.org Map and Investigations = https://geoconfirmed.org/
Managed by volunteers.
You can help us: http://buymeacoffee.com/geoconfirmed
Brenna Smith @brennasmith.bsky.social WSJ visual investigative reporter.
Past: Baltimore Banner, New York Times, & Bellingcat.
Muyi Xiao @muyixiao.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times Visual Investigations team. Mostly covering China.
Previously with ChinaFile, Tencent, Reuters.
Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
Foeke Postma @foeke.bsky.social Investigator & trainer at Bellingcat
Thomas Bordeaux @thomasbordeaux.bsky.social Visual Investigations Reporter @CNN.com
Previously: Member @bellingcat.com Global Authentication Project
DM's open, Signal: thomas.411
Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social Journalist, doing OSINT at Sky News.
Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social Non-profit that exposes human rights & war crimes, counters disinformation, & combats online harms targeting women & minorities.
www.info-res.org
Alexander Nabert @nabertronic.bsky.social
🔎 investigative reporter at public broadcaster br and ard • ✉️ tell me things people should know • contact info: https://alexander-nabert.de
Emma Lewis @emmalewis.ft.com Senior newsroom developer @data.ft.com / avid reader / closet writer / covert musician / unfortunate dancer. #pwME http://ft.com/emma-lewis
Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social Borders, osint, & digital investigations / investigations @lighthousereports.com , sometimes more
+972 Magazine @972mag.bsky.social We have moved to @972mag.com, follow us there to get updated on our latest publications!
Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social Investigating war crimes, pursuing justice, and preparing tomorrow's advocates.
https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/
@devonlum.bsky.social @devonlum.bsky.social @nytimes Visual Investigations
Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social Visual investigations at Reuters
Riley Mellen @rileymellen.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter for NYT. Let's chat: riley.mellen@nytimes.com, Signal, DMs, etc.
Al Jazeera Investigates @ajiunit.com Award-winning journalism from Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit. Got a story or tip for our team? Start here: http://aljazeera.com/tips
Sascha Venohr @venohr.bsky.social Head of Data Journalism & editor investigative team
DIE ZEIT. Co-Organizer of Hacks/Hackers Berlin, OSINT, Visual investigations Threema-ID: U262TCTW
Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social covering organized crime @Bellingcat.com. texan up north. views my own.
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
cemas_io @cemas.io CeMAS bündelt interdisziplinäre Expertise zu Desinformation, Rechtsextremismus, Antisemitismus & Verschwörungsideologien.
Impressum: https://cemas.io/impressum/
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Carlos Gonzales @mabl2k.bsky.social Head of Research at Bellingcat
Visual Investigations
Former Open Source Analyst with BBCAfricaEye.
Christo Buschek @christobuschek.net Data, computations and investigations | Pulitzer Prize 2021 | Der SPIEGEL | Mozilla Senior Fellow 2025 | https://christobuschek.net | christo.buschek@proton.me
Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social visual investigations @nytimes / sanjana.varghese@nytimes.com
Katie Polglase @katiepolglase.bsky.social Investigative reporter @CNN. Specialist in OSINT and visual investigations.
katie.polglase@cnn.com
IG: @katiepolglase
DM for Signal
https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/katie-polglase
Chris Dehghanpoor @ckd.sh OSINT reporter, Washington Post investigations • @chrisd9r on twitter • https://ckd.sh
Gyula Csák @gycsak.bsky.social Journalist, editor @bellingcat.com
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social Senior Visual Forensics reporter, The Washington Post
Sarah Cahlan @sarahcahlan.bsky.social Visual Investigations Editor at Reuters
Former: Visual Forensics at The Washington Post
Meg Kelly @megkelly.bsky.social senior visual forensics reporter
@washingtonpost
tips/ ideas: meg.kelly@washpost.com
usual caveats, dm for whatsapp, signal
Samuel Oakford (WaPo) @samueloakford.bsky.social @washingtonpost visual forensics | samuel.oakford@washpost.com | signal: 771-200-7508
Jonathan Baran @jonathanbaran.bsky.social Visual forensics reporter previously @ The Washington Post. Proud dad, humble spouse and decrepit US Army vet.
Signal tips and job leads @jonathanbaran.415
Jarrett Ley (WashPost) @osviz-jarrett.bsky.social Visual Forensics reporter at The Washington Post using open-source evidence and spatial analysis tools
Have a news tip? DMs open.
Imogen Piper @imogenpiper.bsky.social Visual Forensics Reporter, The Washington Post
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.
Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social OSINT, geolocations, air/sea data. Snarky AvGeek.
Cites: NYT, Мілітарний, Newsweek, The Aviationist, TWZ, A&SF Mag
"Sharp-eyed aviation buff & flight tracker" ~ Brian Williams
https://buymeacoffee.com/vcdgf555
She/her
Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research & Development. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. me@lukaszolejnik.com
lukaszolejnik.com/books
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
techletters.substack.com
AFP Factuel @factuel.afp.com Fact-checking & investigation numérique.
Compte officiel.
Un contenu à signaler ? ➡️ WhatsApp 📱 06 47 08 70 46
https://factuel.afp.com/
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Bahr Abdul Razzak @syria.bsky.social Thwarting Online Autocrats, senior security researcher
@Citizenlab.ca 👨💻 @insyria.bsky.social is my other account
Bill Marczak @billmarczak.org senior researcher at @citizenlab.ca
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social Open source investigations consultant @ICC. Former @ICRC.org @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive overarching #osint chronically online http://emanel-sherbiny.com/ 📍 The Hague
Open Source Munitions Portal @munitionsportal.bsky.social A tool for researchers, journalists and practitioners to learn about munitions, their uses and impact in conflicts. Joint project by @airwars.bsky.social and Armament Research Services (ARES).
Airwars @airwars.bsky.social The civilian harm watchdog.
We also run the Open Source Munitions Portal @munitionsportal.bsky.social
Donate: http://airwars.org/about/donate
Mnemonic @mnemonic-org.bsky.social Mnemonic works globally to help human rights defenders effectively use digital documentation of human rights violations and international crimes to support advocacy, justice and accountability. Website: https://mnemonic.org
Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social Investigating state and corporate violence globally, presenting our findings from the courtroom to the gallery. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Border Forensics Agency @borderforensics.bsky.social Border Forensics is an agency mobilising innovative methods of spatial and visual analysis to investigate practices of border violence, wherever this violence might take place.
Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl Senior Investigator @cen4infores.bsky.social | PhD candidate at TUDelft: whitephosphorus.info | Portfolio: baydoun.nl | Amsterdam, Beirut
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social New York Times reporter on the investigations desk, focusing on technology and data journalism. Reach me on Signal at jenval.06 https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-valentino-devries
Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com Machine-learning engineer and journalist, A.I. Initiatives @nytimes.com
My work: https://www.nytimes.com/by/dylan-freedman
Contact: dylan.freedman@nytimes.com, dylanfreedman.39 (Signal)
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Cyber Detective @cybdetective.bsky.social Every day I write about #osint (Open Source Intelligence) tools and techniques. Also little bit about forensics and other cybersecurity related themes
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social Washington Post investigations reporter
Co-host of Schlock and Awe: https://schlockandawe.substack.com/
Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Nilo Tabrizy @ntabrizy.bsky.social Visual Forensics at The Washington Post | Writing a book on Iran for Pantheon Books (US) & Atlantic Books (UK) | یاشاسین تبریز
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Connor Plunkett @conplnk.bsky.social Investigator @bellingcat.com
Signal username: conp.123
Trevor Ball @easybakeovensz.bsky.social Weapons Technical Analyst at Armament Research Services (ARES). Previously Bellingcat, US Army EOD.
Stéphanie LADEL @stephanieladel.bsky.social OSINT, IMINT, GEOINT ; the rest is just a double task.
Sebastian Vandermeersch @sebkilli.bsky.social Investigative journalist at Bellingcat focused on conflict & human rights.
Formerly: BBC Verify and CIR. Views are my own.
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