(((Pat Hilsman)))

@PatrickHilsman

Freelance Journo + Semi-Pro Sleuth, Syria, MENA, Arms Traffic, Hybrid War + Drug Policy making Crepes! Drone Hunter!

New York, NY
Joined December 2012

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    19 Aug 2015
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    16 hours ago

    In response, there's a cat and mouse game between the OSINT community who want to search Facebook like this, and Facebook seemingly closing off discovered workarounds. Tool makers are now putting their search tools behind password logins, so not public

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    16 hours ago

    But , who maintained one of the most popular Facebook Graph Search tools which was free for anyone to use, said companies abused it, got data on thousands of Facebook users per minute. Likely why Facebook took action against it

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    16 hours ago

    Facebook Graph Search of immense value to groups like , which uses it to find social media evidence of Yemen airstrikes. Since Facebook made the changes, tool maintainers have got a flood of messages; was used for corruption investigations etc

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    16 hours ago

    The feature is Facebook's Graph Search, which allowed anyone to access a wealth of information from Facebook, but narrow down their search in super specific ways: which location have two users been to, for example. But Facebook made changes, stopping tools

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    16 hours ago

    New: Facebook quietly made changes to some search features over the weekend. Were abused to collect data on users en masse. But those same features are used by investigators such as Bellingcat in the public interest. Facebook source says internal struggle

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    A handful of European states have suspended arms sales to Saudi Arabia & coalition allies as a result of actions in Yemen. Saudi Arabia's key arms dealers (US, France, UK & Canada) have not.

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  8. 6 hours ago

    “Journalist changes mind on book” sure is newsworthy...

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    So We call on all countries who can help us in reaching the north east of Syria to work in countryside to use our experience in fire fighting in order to help the civilians anywhere (3)

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    The volunteers asked me to contact all who can facilitate opening the way for the volunteers and vehicles to the North East of Syria to do an emergency respond and to help the civilians to extinguish fire of the field which is threating the food security of Syria (2

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    I’m receiving a lot of messages and calls from the volunteers of the in North of Syria to tell me that they’re worrying about the massive fire of the wheat and the barley fields which threat the food security of all the Syrians (1)

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    7 hours ago

    More terrible fires tonight in northeast Syria. Whatever the cause, the militia that was built by the US to fight ISIS & now governs the area doesn’t have the resources to put them down

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    Jun 5

    Ahead of the UK premiere of at , and her husband Hamza al-Kateab sit down with for this week's Ways to Change the World podcast.

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    12 hours ago

    : impact of this MLRS bombardment filmed from town of tonight (S. ).

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  15. 8 hours ago

    Stfu you were saying Chlorine rises five minutes ago...

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  16. 8 hours ago

    When you accidentally acknowledge the widespread use of Chlorine gas in Syria after screaming about false flags for years....

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  17. 8 hours ago

    A great example of how looking at something stupidly can give you the wrong conclusion. Chlorine is 2.5x heavier than air FYI

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  18. 8 hours ago

    “Chlorine gas is about 2.5x heavier than air, the vapors from liquefied chlorine will sink to ground level and spread along the ground. ... Chlorine frequently reacts violently with moist air and/or water and may ignite combustibles such as wood, paper, oil, clothing, etc”

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  21. 13 hours ago

    Why are New York firefighters responding to a helicopter crash in Manhattan... there’s no footage of it in one of the most heavily filmed places on earth? No footage means everything is ok right? 🤦‍♂️

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