Bellingcat: The internet sleuths exposing Putin's war crimes
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The Times
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🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
With potential war crimes in Ukraine unfolding over social media, internet whizzes around the world are using Bellingcat's open source toolkit to find, fact-check, and expose them in real time.
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Guests:
- Elliot Higgins, creative director and founder, Bellingcat.
- Silke Muelherr, deputy CEO, Alfred Landecker Foundation.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: ITV News, CBC, WION, BBC, CBS, CNN, Sky News.
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| 0:00.0 | Signifikant, der sich podcast, wer und was dreht unsere Welt, wir reden drüber. |
| 1:01.0 | Wenn es einen Platz in Ukraine gibt, die sich zu symbolisieren, die Barbarität des Krieges, ist es bucher. |
| 1:08.0 | Das war die erste Evidence der Krems, die hier verperrt wurde. |
| 1:12.0 | Das Bord ist von Civilians, mit dem sie fangen. |
| 1:21.0 | Befehlungen wurden zu investieren. |
| 1:24.0 | Und so war es ein Online-Kollektiv von Ordnungen über die Welt. |
| 1:28.0 | Ein Projekt, Born-of-The-Internet. |
| 1:31.0 | Bellingcat. |
| 1:32.0 | Bellingcat. |
| 1:33.0 | Bellingcat, ein Independent-Kollektiv von Researchers, |
| 1:36.0 | who use open source and social media investigation, |
| 1:39.0 | to track events as they are right now with the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:43.0 | Essentially an online detective agency. |
| 1:53.0 | In Ukraine, we're watching a war play out in real time |
| 1:56.0 | in real time on social media. |
| 1:58.0 | For many of us, that means doom scrolling through videos on Twitter and TikTok, |
| 2:04.0 | trying to decipher what's happening on the ground. |
| 2:07.0 | But what if you could harvest this information |
| 2:10.0 | and use it to prosecute war criminals? |
| 2:13.0 | Today, we hear from someone who's doing just that. |
| 2:17.0 | I'm Elliot Higgins, I'm the founder and creative director |
| 2:20.0 | of Bellingcat, an open source investigation organization. |
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