The Bellingcat Challenge has a fresh link of paint and is looking better than ever! ✨ Plus, this challenge I worked on just went live and I think it's a good'un! Try it out and let me know how you get on 👇 challenge.bellingcat.com/challenge/105

Not in Kansas | Bellingcat Challenge

Follow your curiosity.

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New PlanetScope imagery captured today, July 28, reveals the extent of the damage from the wildfires in Bordeaux, France.

New publication from me! 🎉 Please check out my latest investigation where we identify (no surprise) a crypto guy to a popular 'leaked' nudes website. Users could even get paid out for sharing leaked/hacked nudes from women. Within 48 hrs of reaching out to him, the site went offline. Impact! 🙌

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 3w ago

Bellingcat and @thepress.co.nz have uncovered a series of links between a New Zealand-based man and the adult forum LeakedBB – a site with over 2.3 million registered users, including some who distributed leaked nude photos and videos. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...

Learn to analyse and report on wildfires in my step-by-step guide for Bellingcat 🔥👇 www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

Burning Forests: Tools for Tracking and Reporting Wildfire Damage - bellingcat

Learn how to track wildfire damage using satellite imagery and QGIS to measure burn severity, map impacts and report on fire trends.

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lan Dixon is a key figure in the Kinahan cartel, the Irish organised crime group worth $1.5 billion. He has been living in the shadows for the past decade - until we found him playing padel in Dubai. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Poster Boy: Sanctioned Kinahan Cartel Lieutenant Found Playing Padel in Dubai - bellingcat

A trusted lieutenant of the transnational Kinahan cartel has been found playing padel in Dubai, where he has become a poster boy for the racquet sport.

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🧵 1/7** New from Bellingcat: researchers cracked open a method for pinpointing vessels inside GPS jamming zones using data that was hiding in plain sight the whole time. @yoruk.bsky.social @galen.reich.me.uk and Youri van der Weide (www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...)

Heading Off: New Technique Helps Track Grain Smuggling Expansion to Libya - bellingcat

Heading data contained in AIS information helped confirm the presence of ship in the Occupied Ukrainian Port of Feodosia before it travelled to Benghazi.

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We located this Russian grain smuggling vessel using its own transmissions even though its GPS signal was scrambled 🚢 Read the full story 👉 www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Heading Off: New Technique Helps Track Grain Smuggling Expansion to Libya - bellingcat

Heading data contained in AIS information helped confirm the presence of ship in the Occupied Ukrainian Port of Feodosia before it travelled to Benghazi.

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Here's me for @bellingcat.com tracing Russia Today subsidiary Ruptly's digital footprints all the way from Berlin to Abu Dhabi www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Tracing Digital Links Between Viory and Ruptly - bellingcat

Bellingcat found mulitple links between the digital infrastructure of Viory and Ruptly news agency, a branch of Russia Today.

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Lack of US government oversight, invasive analytics data collection, and alleged personal email use for official business - this investigation has it all 👇

Jay Edidin@edidin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

There is a whole class of apps that market themselves as "personal safety" or "anti-theft" that meet the definition of stalkerware and Cerberus Anti-Theft is one of them: hexproof.dev/datagrams/ce...

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

404 Media@404media.co · 4mo ago

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

Shadow fleet is ready to transform identity & nationality at a moment’s notice: Suezmax tanker Grus I transits Bosphorus towards the Black Sea en route to Sheskharis. The tanker hoists a Mali flag but the hull registry is for a Cameroon port!

This month's Bellingcat challenge is close to my heart, all focused on audio analysis! challenge.bellingcat.com I even put one together myself - can you answer the call? Try the Acoustic Adventures challenges now!👂☎️

1/8 NEW: @bellingcat.com has geolocated and verified two new videos showing the deadly strikes that hit an IRGC compound — and an adjacent elementary school — in Minab, Iran on Feb. 28. Here's what we found. 🧵 www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Two Waves of Bombing: New Videos Reveal More Details About Iran Girls' School Strike - bellingcat

Analysis suggests there were at least two waves of strikes carried out in the area around the IRGC complex and adjacent girls' school.

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Meteosat imagery, also taken on March 24, shows the plume travelled even further from the terminal. Around 14:00 UTC, the plume had stretched more than 450 km from Primorsk Oil Terminal.

OK this is nuts. A vulnerability in the Companies House website that let *anyone* with an account view ***ANY COMPANY'S DASHBOARD***, see all personal info and - I think - modify company records.

You can replicate this analysis using the SLIDER tool by @cira-csu.bsky.social 🛰️ This link takes you directly to the right view 👇 tinyurl.com/ArcticMegata...

NEW: Previously unreported Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson discussing a Panama-linked tax avoidance structure for a £750k Rio apartment - with Epstein as his "chief life adviser". Exclusive Tax Policy Associates report:

Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Analysing One Federal Agent’s Use of Less-Lethal Launcher in Minneapolis

After the fatal shooting of Renee Good, Border Patrol agent "EZ-17" was filmed shooting less-lethal munitions at protesters five times in five minutes.

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It was a pleasure to talk with @pbump.com about the work of Bellingcat and our ongoing series of challenges! If you like newsletters, you should definitely subscribe to How To Read This Chart 📊 And check out Bellingcat's Challenge Newsletter here too 🔎 bellingcat-challenges.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Philip Bump@pbump.com · 7mo ago

How Bellingcat is training people to take a critical eye to photos and videos, finding information buried beneath the surface. This week's newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-th...

New from me! After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials. Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again. Check out our investigation!

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 8mo ago

Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Russia’s Smuggled Grain Finds New Market in Saudi Arabia - bellingcat

New grain route identified from sanctioned Crimean port that Russia is eyeing in latest peace deal.

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Thrilled that our @bellingcat.com investigation "Unmasking MrDeepFakes" has been shortlisted in the 2025 Fetisov Journalism Awards (Contribution to Civil Rights category). In collaboration with @tjekdet.dk, @politiken.dk & the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. fjawards.com/events/%2Fsh...

Fetisov Journalism Awards

Journalism’s richest prize, celebrating world class reporting in a global campaign for public interest news and information

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I'll be honest. There are a lot of awful things that are happening in the world. But I can sleep at night knowing that I work at a place that tries to make sure we do our part to make sure those wrongs don't go unnoticed. All I need to do is look at our homepage and know I'm in the right place.

Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Russia’s Grain Smuggling Fleet Continues Undeterred - bellingcat

Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged vessel exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen.

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Three days of penguin walk 🐧🐧🐧 -77.26, -33.53

It's go time! Every month, @merelzoet.bsky.social and I bring together five open source research challenges! 👉 challenge.bellingcat.com 👈 After several specialist themed challenges, we're back to our roots with traditional geolocations. Can you track down our holiday snaps? 📸🏝️

My latest Bellingcat tool is out! It lets you search what was said in council meetings across the UK and Ireland, and takes you directly to the right part of the video session to verify. Check it out and let me know what you think! 👇 council-search.bellingcat.com

Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search

Find verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland using this free open source research tool by Bellingcat.

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This WW2 map was drawn by my grandpa, Doug Reich, while in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp ✍️ Here's his story 👇

The latest Bellingcat Challenge has just landed! Get ready to dive into the murky world of money, art, and relics 🪙🎨🗿 ➡️ challenge.bellingcat.com ⬅️ A huge thanks to @arca-artcrime.bsky.social for creating these amazing educational challenges! 🙌