Benjamin Strick
@bendobrown.bsky.social
Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev at BBC Africa Eye. Bellingcat contributor.
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev at BBC Africa Eye. Bellingcat contributor.
Open source documentation by our Sudan Witness team at CIR on mass displacement, detentions & killings during the RSF takeover of El Fasher and the commanders linked to them: www.info-res.org/reports/disp...
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Open source documentation by our Sudan Witness team at CIR on mass displacement, detentions & killings during the RSF takeover of El Fasher and the commanders linked to them: www.info-res.org/reports/disp...
This is the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Absolutely horrific level of destruction, all visible on NOAA imagery. View the map here: storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/melis...
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Absolutely horrific level of destruction, all visible on NOAA imagery. View the map here: storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/melis...
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Reminder that mass killings of civilians are happening in Sudan after the RSF’s takeover of El Fasher this week.
And there’s still a severe famine.
And there’s still a severe famine.
New satellite imagery analysis from Yale shows detailed view of the site where footage showed RSF executing unarmed people in the berm just north of Sudan’s El Fasher.
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reminder that mass killings of civilians are happening in Sudan after the RSF’s takeover of El Fasher this week.
And there’s still a severe famine.
And there’s still a severe famine.
New satellite imagery analysis from Yale shows detailed view of the site where footage showed RSF executing unarmed people in the berm just north of Sudan’s El Fasher.
November 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
New satellite imagery analysis from Yale shows detailed view of the site where footage showed RSF executing unarmed people in the berm just north of Sudan’s El Fasher.
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For y’all interested in getting your own views into things like boat / naval activity in the Caribbean etc, this one’s for you.
I made a newsletter. I went overboard with detail, but I love sharing #OSINT tips and tricks.
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
OSINT Field Notes #1 - DIY Power Grid Map, Great Firewall Leak & Birds Eye View Tool
Technical teardown on how to make a custom KML for power grids. Plus: tracking tiny ships, detailed aerial views and a case file on the Geedge leaks. Read time: 8 min.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
For y’all interested in getting your own views into things like boat / naval activity in the Caribbean etc, this one’s for you.
Lots of folks sending me interesting case studies on NASA night lights data after I published this tutorial. Amazing to see so many applications used in Mali, North Korea, South China Sea and more.
Check out some case studies and how to use it here 👇
youtu.be/x9JR7myjivs?...
Check out some case studies and how to use it here 👇
youtu.be/x9JR7myjivs?...
How to Use NASA Night Lights Imagery to Track World Events
YouTube video by Bendobrown
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Lots of folks sending me interesting case studies on NASA night lights data after I published this tutorial. Amazing to see so many applications used in Mali, North Korea, South China Sea and more.
Check out some case studies and how to use it here 👇
youtu.be/x9JR7myjivs?...
Check out some case studies and how to use it here 👇
youtu.be/x9JR7myjivs?...
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[ #IMINT #SATELLITES ] How to Use NASA Night Lights Imagery to Track World Events (by @bendobrown.bsky.social):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JR...
How to Use NASA Night Lights Imagery to Track World Events
YouTube video by Bendobrown
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
[ #IMINT #SATELLITES ] How to Use NASA Night Lights Imagery to Track World Events (by @bendobrown.bsky.social):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JR...
Our world glows differently after dark and NASA’s satellites see it all. From wars to disasters and even the movement of vessels.
So I made a tutorial on how you can read those patterns using night lights imagery. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JR...
So I made a tutorial on how you can read those patterns using night lights imagery. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JR...
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Our world glows differently after dark and NASA’s satellites see it all. From wars to disasters and even the movement of vessels.
So I made a tutorial on how you can read those patterns using night lights imagery. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JR...
So I made a tutorial on how you can read those patterns using night lights imagery. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JR...
Reposted by Benjamin Strick
“We want to send a message to all authoritarian leaders: choose ballots, not bullets.”
Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado: “She is an extraordinary example of civilian courage.”
youtu.be/2JSAqdkT6z4
Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado: “She is an extraordinary example of civilian courage.”
youtu.be/2JSAqdkT6z4
Chair of Norwegian Nobel Committeeon why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado
YouTube video by ONEST
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“We want to send a message to all authoritarian leaders: choose ballots, not bullets.”
Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado: “She is an extraordinary example of civilian courage.”
youtu.be/2JSAqdkT6z4
Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado: “She is an extraordinary example of civilian courage.”
youtu.be/2JSAqdkT6z4
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New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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I love me a good newsletter, especially one jam packed with open source investigation goodness. Nicely done @bendobrown.bsky.social 🕵🏽♂️
I made a newsletter. I went overboard with detail, but I love sharing #OSINT tips and tricks.
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
OSINT Field Notes #1 - DIY Power Grid Map, Great Firewall Leak & Birds Eye View Tool
Technical teardown on how to make a custom KML for power grids. Plus: tracking tiny ships, detailed aerial views and a case file on the Geedge leaks. Read time: 8 min.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I love me a good newsletter, especially one jam packed with open source investigation goodness. Nicely done @bendobrown.bsky.social 🕵🏽♂️
Reposted by Benjamin Strick
A great new newsletter. Check out the section on exporting the great firewall.
I made a newsletter. I went overboard with detail, but I love sharing #OSINT tips and tricks.
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
OSINT Field Notes #1 - DIY Power Grid Map, Great Firewall Leak & Birds Eye View Tool
Technical teardown on how to make a custom KML for power grids. Plus: tracking tiny ships, detailed aerial views and a case file on the Geedge leaks. Read time: 8 min.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A great new newsletter. Check out the section on exporting the great firewall.
Reposted by Benjamin Strick
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
I made a newsletter. I went overboard with detail, but I love sharing #OSINT tips and tricks.
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
OSINT Field Notes #1 - DIY Power Grid Map, Great Firewall Leak & Birds Eye View Tool
Technical teardown on how to make a custom KML for power grids. Plus: tracking tiny ships, detailed aerial views and a case file on the Geedge leaks. Read time: 8 min.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I made a newsletter. I went overboard with detail, but I love sharing #OSINT tips and tricks.
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
New from @elisethomas.bsky.social on the laundering efforts of A7, a political and commercial enterprise aimed at enabling large-scale evasion of sanctions levelled against Russia. 👇
New @cen4infores.bsky.social investigation: Sanctions, shell companies and Russian state-backed money laundering.
Here’s how Ilan Shor and the Kremlin are laundering tens of billions of dollars around the world.
www.info-res.org/reports/a7-a...
Here’s how Ilan Shor and the Kremlin are laundering tens of billions of dollars around the world.
www.info-res.org/reports/a7-a...
A7 Abroad: Sanctions evasion as a service
A7, led by convicted fraudster Ilan Shor and backed by sanctioned Russian banks, claims to have moved over $86 billion in less than a year. CIR’s investigation details how A7 uses shell companies and ...
www.info-res.org
October 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New from @elisethomas.bsky.social on the laundering efforts of A7, a political and commercial enterprise aimed at enabling large-scale evasion of sanctions levelled against Russia. 👇
Reposted by Benjamin Strick
New @cen4infores.bsky.social investigation: Sanctions, shell companies and Russian state-backed money laundering.
Here’s how Ilan Shor and the Kremlin are laundering tens of billions of dollars around the world.
www.info-res.org/reports/a7-a...
Here’s how Ilan Shor and the Kremlin are laundering tens of billions of dollars around the world.
www.info-res.org/reports/a7-a...
A7 Abroad: Sanctions evasion as a service
A7, led by convicted fraudster Ilan Shor and backed by sanctioned Russian banks, claims to have moved over $86 billion in less than a year. CIR’s investigation details how A7 uses shell companies and ...
www.info-res.org
October 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
New @cen4infores.bsky.social investigation: Sanctions, shell companies and Russian state-backed money laundering.
Here’s how Ilan Shor and the Kremlin are laundering tens of billions of dollars around the world.
www.info-res.org/reports/a7-a...
Here’s how Ilan Shor and the Kremlin are laundering tens of billions of dollars around the world.
www.info-res.org/reports/a7-a...
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Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is
Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.
October 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is
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Pam Bondi's DOJ now running interference for far right influencers arrested by local cops in Portland. Opens investigation into arrest of Nick Sortor www.kgw.com/article/news...
Conservative influencer Nick Sortor among those arrested after fights break out at Portland ICE facility
Sortor posted Friday morning about his arrest on social media, telling PPB to "lawyer up." The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into his arrest.
www.kgw.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pam Bondi's DOJ now running interference for far right influencers arrested by local cops in Portland. Opens investigation into arrest of Nick Sortor www.kgw.com/article/news...
Reposted by Benjamin Strick
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Investigating War Crimes: The Global Arms Trade.
Great resource from Global Investigative Journalism Network & Iain Overton gijn.org/resource/gui...
Great resource from Global Investigative Journalism Network & Iain Overton gijn.org/resource/gui...
Investigating War Crimes: Arms Trade
This chapter is designed to assist journalists investigating arms sales that may have crossed the line into fueling national and international crimes or systemic human rights abuses.
gijn.org
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Investigating War Crimes: The Global Arms Trade.
Great resource from Global Investigative Journalism Network & Iain Overton gijn.org/resource/gui...
Great resource from Global Investigative Journalism Network & Iain Overton gijn.org/resource/gui...
Reposted by Benjamin Strick
You don't need to share location to weather apps, choose one that allows you to add forecasts for different locations. Also don't share location with dating apps - Bumble etc shouldn't need it and it doesn't make you safe or help you find a match for them to know your exact location.
October 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
You don't need to share location to weather apps, choose one that allows you to add forecasts for different locations. Also don't share location with dating apps - Bumble etc shouldn't need it and it doesn't make you safe or help you find a match for them to know your exact location.
Our open-source pipeline for detecting war crimes from space is live. Built by our Sudan team at CIR with BigData Republic, it uses NASA FIRMS & Sentinel-2 data to flag burn events near civilian sites, turning satellite imagery into evidence. Full details: bigdatarepublic.nl/articles/det...
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Our open-source pipeline for detecting war crimes from space is live. Built by our Sudan team at CIR with BigData Republic, it uses NASA FIRMS & Sentinel-2 data to flag burn events near civilian sites, turning satellite imagery into evidence. Full details: bigdatarepublic.nl/articles/det...
Want to see when changes pages are made to a website? There’s a cool function on the @archive.org that lets you track those changes, like where NASA edited out some interesting lines from their site in 2025.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Want to see when changes pages are made to a website? There’s a cool function on the @archive.org that lets you track those changes, like where NASA edited out some interesting lines from their site in 2025.
Reposted by Benjamin Strick
"Top 5 hacks to find deleted websites, posts and secret changes"
Guide to advanced use of the Internet Archive by Benjamin Strick:
How to track changes made to websites
How to view collections of archived sites
How to search through TV News archives
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...
Guide to advanced use of the Internet Archive by Benjamin Strick:
How to track changes made to websites
How to view collections of archived sites
How to search through TV News archives
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...
September 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Top 5 hacks to find deleted websites, posts and secret changes"
Guide to advanced use of the Internet Archive by Benjamin Strick:
How to track changes made to websites
How to view collections of archived sites
How to search through TV News archives
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...
Guide to advanced use of the Internet Archive by Benjamin Strick:
How to track changes made to websites
How to view collections of archived sites
How to search through TV News archives
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...
Bing Maps 'birds eye' view has a crazy amount of detail, like this US Navy base - open for the world to see.
www.bing.com/maps/?cp=36....
www.bing.com/maps/?cp=36....
September 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Bing Maps 'birds eye' view has a crazy amount of detail, like this US Navy base - open for the world to see.
www.bing.com/maps/?cp=36....
www.bing.com/maps/?cp=36....