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HISTORICAL FACTS: Bellingcat | History Defined

Adding an AI tool to Google Earth shook our trust in maps that has been centuries in the making

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe’s cartographers traded on their reputation for accuracy and detail at a time of huge societal change. But as demand grew for increasingly detailed maps of the world to support industrialisation at home and colonisation overseas, they didn’t always get it right.

The Conversation

The Cemetery That Grew Overnight: Inside Venezuela's Race to Give Earthquake Victims a Name Before Burial

Inside Venezuela's emergency earthquake cemetery, families race to identify loved ones before burial as volunteers and forensic teams struggle to preserve every victim's name.

Latin Times

Who Is Mr. Deepfakes? Paris Hilton's TikTok Series Reveals The 'Nice Guy' Behind The Fallen AI Porn Empire

Paris Hilton's new documentary series investigates the rise and fall of MrDeepFakes. We reveal the pharmacist behind the site, the human cost of AI-generated sexual content.

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Indian firms dumped Rs 1,000 crore of unapproved opioid pills into West Africa’s drug crisis

This article is the result of a collaboration with Netherlands-based open-source media outlet Bellingcat. Read Bellingcat’s editorially independent coverage here.

Newslaundry

U.S. Appears To Have Dropped Anti Tank Mines In Southern Iran As Pentagon Considers Sending 10,000 Additional Troops To The Region

The U.S. appears to have dropped anti-tank mines over a village in southern Iran, according to open source research group Bellingcat.

Latin Times

Information is a battlefield: 4 questions you can ask to judge the reliability of news reports and social posts about the US-Iran war

Historically, when the U.S. has undertaken military action against foreign governments, journalists have relied heavily on government sources and rallied “’round the flag,” often uncritically sharing official narratives about U.S involvement. This has been evident during periods of U.S. military engagements in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Conversation

Senate Democrat slams White House, connecting horrific school bombing to a terrifying budget decision

Senator Andy Kim (D-N.J.) is directly connecting recent budget cuts by the Trump administration to a horrific missile strike on an elementary school in Iran. According to The Hill, Kim, who previously served on the National Security Council during the Obama administration, told CNN that the February 28 strike, which…

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US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says

Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly the result of a targeting mistake by US military planners

The Guardian - US

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, satellite imagery and fragments apparently recovered from the site indicate otherwise

The Guardian - UK

Investigation further suggests it was the US that struck an Iranian school, killing 165

The investigative group Bellingcat says newly released video “appears to contradict” U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian school that killed over 165 people

The Independent UK

‘It was about degrading someone completely’: the story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site

The hobbyists who helped build this site created technology that has been used to humiliate countless women. Why didn’t governments step in and stop them?

The Guardian - UK

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

The Guardian - UK

Pro-Kremlin operation weaponises investigative media to claim Ukraine uses orphans to clear mines

A group established by deceased Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is believed to be behind the false claims that Ukraine uses orphans to clear mines.

Euronews

Russian propaganda swamps Moldova ahead of elections

Moldova's geographical position and political makeup make it a prime target for pro-Russian, anti-EU disinformation.

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Texas Observer

New Leads in an Infamous Corpus Christi Cold Case

An open-source review unearths fresh details about a Texas oilman’s murder.

The Independent UK

Russian spy ring operating on ‘industrial scale’ from British seaside guesthouse jailed for total of 50 years

The six-strong cell of Bulgarian nationals spent almost three years passing secrets to Russia

Evening Standard

Spymaster at heart of UK network boasted he could supply ‘nukes’, court hears

Six Bulgarians who were found guilty of spying on an industrial scale are due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey.

Evening Standard

Journalist targeted by Russian spy ring said ordeal was ‘deeply detabilising’

Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev had a victim impact statement read to the court on Thursday.

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The Guardian - UK

‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe

Moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to prove

Evening Standard

Spy claims by Kremlin against British diplomat and spouse of another in Moscow are 'baseless,' says No10

The timing of the expulsions raises suspicions of a tit-for-tat move by the Kremlin

The Independent UK

UK-based Bulgarian spy ring tracked Russian dissidents and passed secrets to Putin’s regime

Bulgarian nationals Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, 39, formed part of a group that carried out surveillance on Russian dissidents

The Guardian - UK

‘The dumbest thing I’ve ever done’: spy trial’s tales of scheming, bluster and a love triangle

Trial of three ‘minions’ in spy ring for Russia heard of chaotic errors, tangled relationships, a cancer lie and a red button

The Guardian - UK

Alleged Russian spy denies knowing of ‘honeytrap’ plan to target journalist

London-based Vanya Gaberova, 30, tells Old Bailey she was lied to and manipulated by alleged spy ring

The Independent UK

Alleged Russian honeytrap spy tells court she was ‘lied to, manipulated, used’

Vanya Gaberova, 30, is accused of being part of a spy ring which targeted people and places of interest to the Russian state over three years.

Evening Standard

Russian 'honeytrap spy' tells court she was ‘lied to, manipulated and used’

Vanya Gaberova, 30, is accused of being part of a spy ring which targeted people and places of interest to the Russian state over three years

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