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Eoghan
@eoghanmacguire.bsky.social
Journalist. Editor @Bellingcat.com. @jskstanford.bsky.social alum
There is no greater game than football
Kenny McLean sends Scotland to the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1998. I love sports. This is what it’s all about.
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There’s no way Paul goes through with this fight www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...
Anthony Joshua v Jake Paul fight scheduled for 19 December
YouTuber Jake Paul will fight ex-world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in a professional bout in December.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Recent GPS interference near Venezuela and Trinidad, per GPSJAM, as noticed by a Bellingcat workshop participant. I believe this is a recent development for the area. CC @lemonodor.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I went to the opening of this exhibition last week

It features a cool Bellingcat display, showing the work we (primarily Ollie Ballinger @yoruk.bsky.social, Bridget Diakun @godin.bsky.social & Youri van der Weide) produced to track Russian ships surreptitiously exporting grain from occupied Crimea
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️

From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.

Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Russia’s Grain Smuggling Fleet Continues Undeterred - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged vessel exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen.
www.bellingcat.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs
The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Apply now for the JSK Journalism Fellowships and join a network of journalists shaping what’s next. Deadline: Dec 3. buff.ly/a2mE59q
October 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A small plane crashed in Brazil recently; amongst the wreckage was the body of a former Melbourne stockbroker and 200kg of cocaine. Bellingcat and @thetimes.com reveal how the deceased Australian pilot was linked to an associate of the notorious Kinahan cartel: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
Australian Cocaine Pilot Killed in Brazil Plane Crash Linked to Kinahan Drug Cartel - bellingcat
An Australian pilot who died when his plane crashed in Brazil during a failed drug run has links to an alleged Kinahan cartel associate who is facing drugs charges in Western Australia.
www.bellingcat.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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AI mode within regular Google search, available outside the EU, is the best of these at geolocation now, barely beating GPT o4-mini-high and way, way faster. Will test GPT-5 when I can
We ran 500 tests and: LLMs are quickly passing the threshold of being the most useful tool out there, if you're looking for the location of a photo from scratch.
August 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
August 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Together with partners at @bellingcat.com and @calmatters.org we collected videos of over 100 incidents of DHS operations between June 6 and June 30, picking out what appear to be recurring trends and tactics used by officers in and around Los Angeles.
youtu.be/6BuxaVdv7po?...
Masked, Armed, Forceful: Finding Patterns in California Immigration Raids
YouTube video by Evident Media
youtu.be
July 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We published this story yesterday looking at the ongoing LA immigration raids. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we collected over 100 videos and images, mapped incidents and picked out key trends from the data
July 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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⚽️🧨💰Fit and proper person?

Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan

Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social

Free to read on link below:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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The Ferret is delighted to join the Global Investigative Journalism Network ‪@gijn.org – Scotland's first and only member!

bit.ly/3IcWW28
GIJN Welcomes 12 New Members, from Cyprus to Eswatini
New members include organizations probing cross-border abuses or promoting civic engagement, as well as digging into environmental and human rights violations.
bit.ly
June 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Social media displaces TV as the top way Americans get news. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...
For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source
Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.
www.niemanlab.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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“AI is not what its developers are selling it as,” Tyler Austin Harper writes, suggesting that the abundance of pure hype and total doom that dominate the discourse are contributing to a dangerous AI illiteracy among the general public. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
www.theatlantic.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Poor Federico Dimarco. Worst performance in a #ChampionsLeague final since Linkin Park
May 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I got to spend time with Morgan and @tiffany.thetriibe.com last year. Both are amazing and inspiring. It’s so cool to see @thetriibe.com go from strength to strength
NEW — “The TRiiBE has finally reached the point where we are embracing a future that we always knew was ours.”

Our publisher Morgan Elise Johnson pens this piece about our exciting new chapter.

thetriibe.com/2025/05/the-...
The TRiiBE announces West Side studio • The TRiiBE
The TRiiBE is launching its new chapter, which includes producing documentary films and more.
thetriibe.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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📊 As the new hosts of the competition that celebrates the best data journalism from around the world, GIJN is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 #SigmaAwards.

🏆 Please join us in celebrating — and being inspired by — this year’s winners: https://twp.ai/9PSyXj
gijn.org
From Flammable Buildings to Slavery’s Hidden Legacy to Tainted Groundwater: Projects from 10 Countries Win GIJN’s 2025 Sigma Awards
twp.ai
May 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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There are a myriad of reasons why reporters decide to launch their own news sites, but these enterprising journalists often face a series of new, daunting challenges.

Here's how to dodge these pitfalls: https://twp.ai/9PSaPi
gijn.org
Journalists as Founders — Intrepid Pioneers or Reluctant Managers?
twp.ai
May 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Latest: How a deepfake video infiltrated Indian media coverage of the escalating India and Pakistan conflict…
www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...
India-Pakistan Conflict: How a Deepfake Video Made it Mainstream - bellingcat
A manipulated video falsely claiming to show a General in the Pakistani army stating two of its fighter jets had been shot down was picked up and spread by Indian media outlets.
www.bellingcat.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Big story from @bellingcat.com this morning, working with @tjekdet.dk CBC and @politiken.dk to identify a key administrator behind MrDeepfakes -- one of the largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography in the world
Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat
Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.
www.bellingcat.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Why it’s time we change how we talk about conspiracy theories

www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/p...
Why it’s time we change how we talk about conspiracy theories | CNN Politics
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, who interviews people with crazy beliefs, reflects on some of his own.
www.cnn.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM