The FIFA World Cup was predicted to be the biggest betting event in history. Bellingcat researcher @msramalho.bsky.social looked into the data on prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi - and found that fans wagered more than US $14 billion through the two sites www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...

Will Ronaldo Cry​? World Cup Fans Bet Billions Through Prediction Markets - bellingcat

Users traded on almost 60,000 outcomes, betting on everything from the sponsor of the Golden Boot winner to whether Cristiano Ronaldo would shed a tear during a Portugal match.

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Very much worth looking at the large @planet.com SkySat comparison that @msramalho.bsky.social was able to help us set up in this piece. The imagery covers about 15 miles/26km of coast from Mamo/Catia La Mar to Caraballeda, where some of the worst damage took place.

Carlos Gonzales@mabl2k.bsky.social · last mo.

Satellite Imagery Shows Scale of Venezuela Earthquake Damage Bellingcat has received satellite imagery from Planet Labs PBC that shows one the worst affected areas in the country, including a large number of collapsed buildings and apartment blocks in La Guaira. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Bellingcat developed a new machine learning model to rank Telegram social media posts on their likelihood of containing incidents of civilian harm. Read our latest guide: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

How to Use AI to Help Find Civilian Harm - bellingcat

A new machine learning model ranks Telegram posts on their likelihood of containing incidents of civilian harm.

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Review of the latest film from Bellingcat Productions - Killing Anna review – the amazing catfishing operation that flushed out Syria massacre perpetrator www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Killing Anna review – the amazing catfishing operation that flushed out Syria massacre perpetrator

Haunting documentary tells how Syrian academic Annsar Shahoud created an online persona to contact the suspected perpetrator of the Tadamon massacre

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A new investigation by Bellingcat has identified 115 villages in Rakhine State as partially or completely destroyed since the February 2021 military coup that overthrew Myanmar’s democratically elected government. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05...

The 'Lost' Villages of Myanmar's Rakhine - bellingcat

A “river of blood” was how one survivor described the scene in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing.” Another told the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) how 20 relatives, i...

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Russia is ALL GAS NO BREAKS on the so-called youth "military patriotic" education. There's a social shift and the price to pay is in blood and trauma for generations to come. The state sponsored Russian Cossacks are one part of that, they are also a way to co-opt an identity that is Ukrainian too.

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 8mo ago

The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation force: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Life in Bamako, the capital of Mali, has been brought to a standstill after a jihadist organisation launched a series of attacks on inbound fuel convoys. Bellingcat has verified six attacks since September, which together have damaged more than 130 fuel tankers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Mali Under Siege: Tracking the Fuel Blockade Crippling Bamako - bellingcat

Attacks by a jihadist group on fuel convoys bound for Bamako, the capital of Mali, have destroyed more than 130 tankers since September, a Bellingcat investigation has found.  The systematic attacks b...

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The media/social fatigue around the Russia-Ukraine war is real and only helps the aggressor. Working on this piece brought me to the brink of that. Now, empathy regained, I am sharing it with an ask: read, and allow your emotions to read with you. www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-...

Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time - bellingcat

Bellingcat has identified 23 multi-storey housing complexes being built in occupied Mariupol and advertised for sale to Russian citizens.

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Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 8mo ago

Nine out of 10 residential buildings in Mariupol were damaged or destroyed during Russia’s invasion. Now, the apartment blocks are being rebuilt – and offered for sale to Russians with low-interest mortgages. youtube.com/shorts/yxsIV...

Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...

Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time - bellingcat

Bellingcat has identified 23 multi-storey housing complexes being built in occupied Mariupol and advertised for sale to Russian citizens.

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If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people. Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 9mo ago

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Follow us at @decoherence.media and read our announcement!

Welcome to Decoherence Media!

We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods

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The largest aid flotilla in history has been attacked twice in two days whilst in port in Tunisia. Open source analysis suggests an incendiary munition is to blame, contradicting official statements. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row - bellingcat

On September 8 and 9, two vessels of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were attacked outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. Bellingcat analysed footage and images from both incidents. ...

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The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

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Excellent to see @evidentmedia.org's doc that @bellingcat.com contributed to — "In Real Life: A Hidden War" — has won the @rtdna.bsky.social Murrow Award for Best News Documentary: www.rtdna.org/news/rtdna-a... Related piece from @nickwaters.bsky.social here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04...

“We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions” The IDF Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza - bellingcat

Bellingcat investigates the demolitions carried out by the IDF in Gaza.

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Bellingcat has just launched a major new update to our Auto Archiver tool, simplifying the process of archiving online content for individuals or teams. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat

Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

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Nothing is permanent on social media. Users deleting their posts or webpages can lead to the erasure of a trail of evidence that may be crucial to your investigations. But how do you keep that data? We've updated our Auto Archiver tool to make archiving easier... www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat

Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

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This report is a 200+ pages masterclass on how ingenuity plays a role in open source investigations. TLDR: Collect evidence of munition remnants > estimate direction of origin > overlay to know where to look for launch systems > identify military units > trace back chain of command.

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · last yr.

A new report by Bellingcat’s Justice & Accountability (J&A) Unit and @glanlaw.bsky.social detailing the use of cluster munitions in civilian areas in Kharkiv at the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is published today. j-and-a.glanlaw.org/kharkiv

After watching dozens of ICE raid/arrest videos it's clear how smartphones change the dynamics in these situations: It's why faces are covered, why operations are fast-in/fast-out, and in many cases why agents show restraint. > Filming and knowing your rights is crucial to a balanced power dynamic.

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · last yr.

Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

Auto Archiver v1.0.0 is out 🎉 Now with documentation, guides, tests, and new exciting features. A big thanks to @erinhmclark.bsky.social and Patrick Robertson who went out of their way to improve the quality and reliability of the tool. See what changed here: github.com/bellingcat/a...

Release v1.0.0 · bellingcat/auto-archiver

🎉 Auto Archiver v1.0.0 We're excited to announce a major stable release of the Auto Archiver tool! This release comes with some major improvements in stability and flexibility, with a modular and e...

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While @msramalho.bsky.social also contributed technical assistance to the investigation into photographer Yasser Qudih, who was the subject of a smear campaign that forced him into exile forbiddenstories.org/from-slander...

From Slander to Exile: Photographer Yasser Qudih Targeted for Doing His Job

On October 7, 2023, Gazan photographer Yasser Qudih photographed Hamas’ attack on Israel, prompting a pro-Israeli NGO to suspect him of having been alerted by the Islamist group ahead of time.

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Bellingcat's Auto Archiver is never gonna give you up github.com/bellingcat/a...

GitHub - bellingcat/auto-archiver: Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more).

Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more). - bellingcat/auto-archiver

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Kombiz Lavasany@kombiz.bsky.social · last yr.

I was working with Claude to get belingcat's docker image for auto-archiver up and running and you'll never guess which video it had me to test pull. Url in the alt-text.