Gregory's ServerAs 2024 comes to a close, here’s some examples of what Bellingcat investigated per month in our 10th year!🧵
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February: Solving a mystery. An unnamed vessel had caused an oil spill disaster off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago but there was no crew to be found... The search included looking at satellite imagery, 3D models, ship spotting sites and financial records: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/02/20/how-a-leaking-barge-became-an-oil-spill-disaster-off-the-tobago-coast/ March: Bellingcat with The Sunday Times discovered one notorious narco boss had not been careful enough with his digital security, revealing his and associated others movements via Google Reviews for restaurants and hotels https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/30/kinahan-cartel-wanted-narco-boss-exposes-whereabouts-by-posting-google-reviews/ April: We worked with Scripps News to follow the movements of one IDF unit as they moved through Gaza carrying out demolitions. The work has been cited in multiple reports and won an award for visual storytelling at the Online Journalism Awards https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/29/weve-become-addicted-to-explosions-the-idf-unit-responsible-for-demolishing-homes-across-gaza/ |
January: Using camouflage pattern analysis, geolocations and social posts we found an infamous Russian neo-Nazi with ties to the paramilitary Wagner Group may be involved in the staging of a photograph showing a man holding a severed head in Syria. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/01/23/the-man-in-the-matching-uniform-investigating-a-rusich-atrocity-in-syria/