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I just published a massive guide for @bellingcat on using reverse image search engines for digital investigation. I test out the Big Three services, ranking them with a running scorecard, and detail some creative search strategies at the end of the guide.https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guide-to-using-reverse-image-search-for-investigations/…
I like to write way-too-long guides on digital research like this, so here are a few of the others if you're curious: Guide to accessing / researching data from a white supremacist message board leakhttps://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/11/06/massive-white-supremacist-message-board-leak-how-to-access-and-interpret-the-data/…
Using creepy contact book apps that steal people's info for research (GetContact, True Caller, etc), with a bonus walkthrough on setting up a good burner phone (US)https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/04/08/using-phone-contact-book-apps-for-digital-research/…
If you don't want to use a burner phone, some ways to set up a virtual Android device for investigation. Some of this may be out of date now, as I think some of the programs detailed in here may require $$$https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2018/08/23/creating-android-open-source-research-device-pc/…
How to archive digital evidence, and lots of discussion on specific uses of @archiveis (which is still improving and is worth your donation money) and @internetarchive in archiving user-generated content.https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2018/02/22/archive-open-source-materials/…
How to find every bit of recorded video of a particular event, with a focus on livestreams. Some of this is out of date (especially Facebook Live, which is on life support), but it's mostly still good.https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2017/10/17/conduct-comprehensive-video-collection/…
Advanced video verification, which is more of a long treatise on general verification principleshttps://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2017/06/30/advanced-guide-verifying-video-content/…
Lastly, two guides that are probably now completely out of date: one on the Strava activity map (https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2018/01/29/strava-interpretation-guide/ …), and another on now-defunct Searchface (revived as FindClone, which is amaaaazing)https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/02/19/using-the-new-russian-facial-recognition-site-searchface-ru/…
Hi Aric. Do you have any suggestions for reverse searches for videos?
you can't. best you can do is take screenshots and reverse search them looking for thumbnails. invid and the amnesty international youtube data viewer can generate these thumbnails for you to reverse search.
Hi man, I've been on Twitter non-stop for a week and it's the first time I see your post, and only because someone in my feed liked it. Are you being shadowbanned / deprioritized?
nah, shadowbanning isn't real. i haven't been on twitter much since sunday or monday.
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