Open Source Research Guide
Social Search Techniques Using LinkedIn, from Henk van Ess
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Tips for navigating the social media site LinkedIn from GIJN’s forthcoming open source guide on online searching.
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Tips for navigating the social media site LinkedIn from GIJN’s forthcoming open source guide on online searching.
Tips from an internet search expert for navigating the social media site Facebook, from GIJN’s forthcoming guide to open source research online.
Tips for navigating the social media site Twitter from GIJN’s forthcoming guide to open source researching online.
Internet research expert Henk van Ess offers his tips for navigating the social media sites TikTok and Telegram from his forthcoming guide to open source researching online.
These new reporting tools and apps, which recently debuted at two Bellingcat Hackathons, can help journalists easily archive videos, locate satellite imagery, and track people via online reviews.
In this edition of GIJN Toolbox, we examine the latest advancements from the IRE22 conference on data extraction and optical character recognition (OCR) tools for turning unwieldy documents into searchable spreadsheets.
Many people have been using some of the most common OSINT tools and techniques unwittingly. There’s one tool in particular that anyone with an internet connection has used: Google, or other search engines. Here are examples of how good ol’ Google search queries can be more effective than any fancy reverse image search tool.
How do you track cryptocurrency transactions? Brenna Smith, an undergraduate researcher at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Investigations Lab, who specializes in investigating disinformation and the illicit use of cryptocurrencies, has created a tutorial using Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades’ bitcoin funding campaign as a case study to show you how.
CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan describes how he and a colleague were able to discover, and then prove, that the largest Black Lives Matter Facebook page in 2018 was an Australia-based scam. O’Sullivan also provides insights into the value of good archive sites and domain registration tools in investigating suspicious social media pages, in conjunction with traditional reporting methods.
ওপেন সোর্স টুল, ইউজার জেনারেটেড কন্টেন্ট এবং অ্যাডভান্সড সার্চ ফিল্টার ব্যবহার করে সাংবাদিকরা এখন চাইলে ঘরে বসেই কোভিড-১৯ মহামারি নিয়ে বড় বড় রিপোর্ট তৈরি করতে পারেন। প্রথাগত মাঠ-রিপোর্টিংয়ের মাধ্যমে বের করে আনা সম্ভব নয়, এমন ভিজ্যুয়াল ও তথ্য পেতে পারেন অনলাইনে ওপেন সোর্স অনুসন্ধানের মাধ্যমে। এই লেখায় সেসব কৌশল জানাচ্ছেন অভিজ্ঞ অনুসন্ধানী সাংবাদিকরা।