Academic or student in the USA? Our research techniques can be useful in assessing fake news. We're helping students to investigate and better understand the anti-democratic online ideologies that threaten their communities with two free webinars on digital investigation skills this September 🧵
The first webinar "Introduction to Open Source Research: Where in the world?" will take place on Sept. 17-18, 12-4pm PDT// 3-7 pm EDT, covering an introduction to online research and how to verify an image, determining when and where an image has been taken. www.eventzilla.net/e/introducti...
The second webinar "Introduction to Open Source Research: Where on the Internet?" will take place on Sept. 24-25, 12-4pm PDT// 3-7 pm EDT and will focus on search fundamentals and investigating online profiles from digital footprint tracing to facial recognition. www.eventzilla.net/e/open-sourc...
Students may register for one or both sessions, but should be prepared that some topics will be repeated. Places are limited and preference will be given to students, but if we have available seats we will accept faculty and staff. Please use .edu email accounts to register for the webinars!
Know someone in academia in the USA who may be interested in this? Please share these links far and wide! www.eventzilla.net/e/introducti... www.eventzilla.net/e/open-sourc...
Thank you for doing this. I just emailed my students about these.
I'm not a registered student, but try to learn new skills so the time. Is there any way for people like me (disabled, little disposable income) to access the materials?
This particular training is geared specifically at US students. BUT we offer many workshops on our website including online offerings in multiple timezones: www.bellingcat.com/workshops/
We also regularly post useful guides to skillsets on our YouTube and our website www.youtube.com/@bellingcato... and host regular live talks from experts within our Discord server, one of which is happening tomorrow: discord.gg/Qkd2u4MQ
One past talk that might be useful is this one by Mike Yambo, one of the Nation newspaper's first OSINT researchers. He unpacked what tools and resources he used to get started with online investigation: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
Awesome! Thank you.
Canada also?