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Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
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bit.ly/bcattools | last update: August 2023
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Welcome to Bellingcat’s freely available online open source investigation toolkit.
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This toolkit includes satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive web pages, and much more.
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Follow Bellingcat's work via the website or through social media. We provide workshops to familiarize with these tools, and learn open source investigative methods.
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We are currently in the process of updating this toolkit. If you have any feedback on the toolkit, please get in touch with Johanna Wild (toolkit@bellingcat.com)
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Tools marked in yellow are the most used per category by Bellingcat.
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Just getting started? Read these:Sheet Map:
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First Steps to Getting Started in Open Source Researchimage/video πŸ“Έstay safe ⚠️
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A Beginners Guide to Social Media Verificationsocial media 🀳archiving πŸ—ƒοΈ
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people (phone, email, username)πŸ§‘β€πŸ€β€πŸ§‘dataviz πŸ“Š
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Bellingcat links:maps/satellites πŸ—ΊοΈ guides ❓
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Websitetransport ✈️education πŸ“
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Discordwebsites 🌐misc
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Patreoncompanies & finance πŸ’΅
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Githubenvironment & wildlife 🌳🐯
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Youtubenon-english 🌍
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BlueSky
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Reddit
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Mastodon
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Facebook
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Twitter
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