Yang Mun: The Google AI-generated persona reaching millions in the wellness market spotlight.ebu.ch/p/yang-mun-a...

🚨 Inside Kahrizak morgue

New verified footage confirms the scale of the lethal crackdown in Tehran. Frame-by-frame analysis of body bags and transport trucks matches known sites, contradicting state narratives.

Read the full field guide:
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Piercing the Iran blackout 🇮🇷

Our latest Dispatch: How we verified Kahrizak morgue footage during a near-total internet shutdown.

Plus: 📍 Minneapolis ICE shooting analysis ⚙️ Snowflake, Sherlock & OSINT tools 🇬🇱 The Greenland crisis
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How do you find the signal in 50k Telegram messages? 🔍💻

My latest OSINT tutorial explores using Python & sentiment analysis to map emotional "divergence" in public discourse. A step-by-step guide for investigators to move from observation to evidence.

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How we verified the Kahrizak footage during a near-total internet blackout:

🏛️ Architecture: Matches known renderings of the Forensic Diagnostic & Laboratory Centre. 🗓️ Metadata: On-screen monitors show "Photo X out of 250" with Jan 9 timestamps.

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🇮🇷 With #Iran facing a nationwide internet blackout, verifying info is harder than ever. We’ve mapped the state organs, parallel intelligence agencies, and forensic tools needed to verify the ground truth. 🧵 #OSINT

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Das Verifikationsnetzwerk @spotlight.ebu.ch, zu dem auch der ORF gehört, hat Accounts gesammelt, mit denen man starten kann, sich einen Überblick über die Lage im Iran zu verschaffen.
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A slew of other similar images were also circulating, purporting to show Maduro being paraded around the airfield after his arrest by U.S. forces.

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Websites are more than digital storefronts—they are maps of hidden connections. 🕵️‍♂️💻

We've just released "The investigator’s guide to website infrastructure," a blueprint for using WHOIS, SSL, and server fingerprinting to uncover hidden networks.

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2025 was a wild year for facts. 🔍

From AI-generated Popes to $100k World Cup tickets and the digital frontlines of the Iran-Israel war, Eurovision News Spotlight spent the year deconstructing the noise. Check out our top investigations from a year of global crisis:

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What you get at spotlight.ebu.ch:
🔎 High-level cross-border fact-checks
🧠 Deep dives into synthetic media & CIB
🔦 Targeted election investigations
🗓️ OSINT monthly masterclasses & workflows
🛠️ Technical tutorials (geolocation, etc.)
📡 Rapid-response briefings

Social media hints aren't enough—investigative journalism needs the "gold standard" of evidence: court records.

New tutorial on navigating global legal databases: 🔹 ECLI (EU) & PACER (US) 🔹 Using SHA-256 to hash evidence 🔹 Private AI for legal translation

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France 24 and the EBU Investigative Journalism Network reveal how forensic OSINT and cross-border collaboration exposed global health and weapon crises
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📰 New Fact-Check Dispatch - The Bondi Beach terror attack: Unpacking the viral lies and fact-checking the hero's misidentification
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🚨 NEW Tutorial: Financial OSINT. 🚨

Learn the step-by-step methodology for legally tracing corporate assets, beneficial ownership, and sanctioned networks.
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Debunking viral claims about the #Eurovision 2026 boycott, Martin Rowson, Poland, and more #factchecking #OSINT
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