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johannawild.bsky.social
Atlos is a platform that allows open source researchers to collaborate on large scale investigations. Learn more about Atlos in @stephanieladel.bsky.social's contribution to @bellingcat.com' Online Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
Atlos | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
ATLOS is a platform for collaborative and large-scale open source investigations.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
March 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
Baidu Maps is one of those tools everyone has heard of, but few open source researchers actually know how to use. Learn more about Baidu Maps in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
Baidu Maps | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
A mapping application provided by Chinese technology company Baidu Inc.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
May 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
The EU has imposed sanctions on a range of countries and individuals. Open source researchers can use the EU Sanctions Map to find out who is affected. Learn more about the site in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
EU Sanctions Map | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
Database of sanctions imposed by the European Union
bellingcat.gitbook.io
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
negativestarinnovators.com
We're improving our privacy tool Paste redactor: redactor.negativestarinnovators.com
works 100% on your own devices even us cannot see your information.
#privacy #OpenSourceResearch #SaaS #IndieHackers #DigitalMarketing #BusinessGrowth #SocialMediaMarketing #webdevelopment #Business&Marketing
May 16, 2026 at 9:38 AM
johannawild.bsky.social
From researching on Telegram to analyzing satellite imagery, the @journalismfestival.com offers free online recordings from past events. I have compiled a list of sessions that focus on, or are related to, open source research methods: t1p.de/mod4u. #OpenSourceResearch
IJF Open Source Research Panels
A list of Open Source Research related panels from the International Journalism Festival in Perugia (in English and only if a recording is available) 2025 Sam Cole, Kolina Koltai, Charlotte Maher...
t1p.de
May 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
negativestarinnovators.com
Please read our most recent article about how these influences shapes us and share your experiences with us too
negativestarinnovators.com
#privacy #OpenSourceResearch #SaaS #IndieHackers #DigitalMarketing #SocialMediaMarketing #webdevelopment
Negative Star Innovators Blog
We share our journey, ideas, and thinking behind building privacy tools.
negativestarinnovators.com
May 22, 2026 at 7:05 AM
johannawild.bsky.social
Leak-Lookup allows open source researchers to search across data breaches. Have a look at Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit to learn more about this tool: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
Leak-Lookup | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
An online tool that allows you to search across public data breaches to surface credentials that may have been compromised.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
March 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
PublicWWW is a source code search engine. Open source researchers can use it to identify possible links between different websites. Learn more in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
PublicWWW | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
PublicWWW is a source code search engine that allows you to search for any alphanumeric snippet, signature, or keyword within the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code of millions of web pages.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
Did you ever struggle to estimate the number of people in a crowd? MapChecking can help with this task. Learn more about the tool in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit by @afko.bsky.social: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
MapChecking | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
This tool helps you estimate and fact-check the maximum number of people standing in a given area.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
May 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
License plates can be a crucial piece of information for geolocations. Check out our new comparison of top license plate information sites: app.gitbook.com/o/WQpOq5ZFue... #OpenSourceResearch #Geolocation #LicensePlates
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GitBook
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March 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
PimEyes allows users to upload photos of faces in order to search the internet for pictures of people who look similar. Learn more about the tool in Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... by @anisashabir.bsky.social #OpenSourceResearch
PimEyes | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
An AI-powered facial recognition reverse image search tool.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
May 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
theresareloveution.bsky.social
#OpenSourceResearch

#FreeEnergy

youtube.com/shorts/f3WYA...
Missing Scientists
YouTube video by i2c_jason
youtube.com
April 26, 2026 at 11:18 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
The tool "Bluesky Insights" provides information on Bluesky accounts including favourite topics, preferred posting times or best performing posts. @cargocultscientist.bsky.social tested the tool by using @bellingcat.com as an example:
bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
Bluesky Insights | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
Bluesky Insights is a free web-based analytics tool for the Bluesky social network.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
March 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
Whether we like it or not, some open source researchers do use facial detection/recognition tools: Learn more about Azure AI Video Indexer and FaceCheckID (two very different tools!) in our toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... + bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
Azure AI Video Indexer | bcattools
AI video tool for facial detection and other types of insights.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
February 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
sunlightresearch.bsky.social
🌍 Oct 31: Learn to follow global money trails & uncover who really controls international companies.

Anna Massoglia shares tools for tracing influence across borders.

Link to register: www.sunlightresearch.net/event-detail...

#GlobalInvestigations #OpenSourceResearch #DataJournalism
Money, Movement, and Misdirection | Sunlight Research
Join Sunlight Research Center and Anna Massoglia, Sunlight’s director of investigations, for a hands-on session on tracking the people, money, and networks behind international businesses.
www.sunlightresearch.net
October 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
johannawild.bsky.social
If you are interested in researching China-related topics, consider exploring Tencent Maps. Learn how to use this Chinese mapping service (also from outside of China) in @bellingcat.com ’s Online Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
Tencent Maps | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
Tencent Maps is a mapping service provided by the Chinese technology company Tencent. Tencent Maps provides maps, satellite imagery, and street view.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
June 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
bjsacademy.bsky.social
👏 Wishing our colleagues at #OpenSourceResearch Collaboration all the best for their conference in collaboration with 2nd Pan Arab Women Physicians Association Conference and the 1st Kuwaiti Women Physicians Conference, from December 12th to 14th, 2024.
➡️ https://buff.ly/3ORf0iv
December 12, 2024 at 5:31 PM
blackazzknight.bsky.social
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#bellingcat #newzealand #nonconsensualimagery #leakedvideo #leakedimagery #leakedbb #investigation #onlineharm #thepressnz #opensourceresearch | Bellingcat
Bellingcat and The Press have uncovered a series of connections between a New Zealand-based man and the adult forum LeakedBB – a site with over 2.3 million registered users, including some who distrib...
www.linkedin.com
July 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM
johannawild.bsky.social
WildEye lets you track environmental and wildlife crime cases in many countries around the world. Learn more about the tracking tool in our toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more... #OpenSourceResearch
WildEye | bcattools
Tracking tool for data on environmental and wildlife crime cases worldwide.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
January 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
blackazzknight.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/liveta...
#livetalk #stagetalkswithbellingcat #stagetalk #missingpersons #coldcase #opensourceresearch #foias #publicrecords | Bellingcat
What does an OSINT investigation look like when the internet doesn’t appear to have the answer? Bellingcat’s Peter Barth shares how FOIAs helped identify a cold case victim after three decades and wha...
www.linkedin.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:49 PM
snobwho.neocities.org
Anyway, nice list .

github.com/xaotica/Open...
GitHub - xaotica/OpenSourceResearch: Open source research documents, free to use or share or modify. Enjoy!
Open source research documents, free to use or share or modify. Enjoy! - xaotica/OpenSourceResearch
github.com
July 16, 2026 at 2:41 AM
xaotica.bsky.social
Mistakes are deliberate-ish to overload the tokens.

I love breaking Grok so much that I even wrote a guide for how to do this, then submit the AI to the FBI.

It's on Github account Xaotica in the OpenSourceResearch folder.

What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? Let us know in the comments! 🤣🇺🇲
June 15, 2026 at 5:59 AM
sunlightresearch.bsky.social
💼 Learn to:
• Map global corporate structures
• Uncover foreign lobbying + hidden influence
• Use open-source tools + multilingual searches

#GlobalInvestigations #OpenSourceResearch #Accountability
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
panvladyslav.bsky.social
Just released a small python tool I built: Explosion Distance Estimator — a simple code to estimate how far an explosion occurred based on video footage.

Open source & easy to use — feel free to test it out!

github.com/wodleyy/expl...

#OSINT #OpenSourceResearch #GEOINT #Geolocation #Python
April 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM