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Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
Analysing One Federal Agent’s Use of Less-Lethal Launcher in Minneapolis
After the fatal shooting of Renee Good, Border Patrol agent "EZ-17" was filmed shooting less-lethal munitions at protesters five times in five minutes.
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January 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.
January 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
New from me!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
How We Found the Man Behind Two Deepfake Porn Sites
Business documents, website code and leaked data all led us back to one person profiting off non-consensual sexual imagery of women.
www.bellingcat.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New from me!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.
www.bellingcat.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
Believe it or not, I started looking into Crushmate/CrushAI a year ago! And just got too busy with other projects.
But with Meta announcing they are suing Joy Timeline, one of the entities linked to CrushAI's nudify ads, we were ready to hit publish on our investigation.
Check it out!
But with Meta announcing they are suing Joy Timeline, one of the entities linked to CrushAI's nudify ads, we were ready to hit publish on our investigation.
Check it out!
On its website Crushmate claimed to specialise in “crafting an AI girl of your dreams”, but on social ads it promoted a tool for making nonconsensual nude images of real women. @koltai.bsky.social & @melzxy.bsky.social pull back the layers of the “CrushAI” network. www.bellingcat.com/news/america...
New Companies Linked to 'Nudify' Apps That Ran Ads on Facebook, Instagram
Meta is suing Joy Timeline HK Limited, the entity it says is behind the CrushAI apps. But Bellingcat has linked these apps to two other companies.
www.bellingcat.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Believe it or not, I started looking into Crushmate/CrushAI a year ago! And just got too busy with other projects.
But with Meta announcing they are suing Joy Timeline, one of the entities linked to CrushAI's nudify ads, we were ready to hit publish on our investigation.
Check it out!
But with Meta announcing they are suing Joy Timeline, one of the entities linked to CrushAI's nudify ads, we were ready to hit publish on our investigation.
Check it out!
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
On its website Crushmate claimed to specialise in “crafting an AI girl of your dreams”, but on social ads it promoted a tool for making nonconsensual nude images of real women. @koltai.bsky.social & @melzxy.bsky.social pull back the layers of the “CrushAI” network. www.bellingcat.com/news/america...
New Companies Linked to 'Nudify' Apps That Ran Ads on Facebook, Instagram
Meta is suing Joy Timeline HK Limited, the entity it says is behind the CrushAI apps. But Bellingcat has linked these apps to two other companies.
www.bellingcat.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
On its website Crushmate claimed to specialise in “crafting an AI girl of your dreams”, but on social ads it promoted a tool for making nonconsensual nude images of real women. @koltai.bsky.social & @melzxy.bsky.social pull back the layers of the “CrushAI” network. www.bellingcat.com/news/america...
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
It’s already hard to judge whether products you buy online will be the right size or not, but what if the product doesn’t even exist? @koltai.bsky.social helps you to distinguish between real and AI-generated products online. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
How to Spot AI-Generated Scam Products
It's harder than before to tell what’s real and what’s fake, but if you look closely there are often tell-tale signs.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It’s already hard to judge whether products you buy online will be the right size or not, but what if the product doesn’t even exist? @koltai.bsky.social helps you to distinguish between real and AI-generated products online. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
@koltai.bsky.social delves deeper into Clothoff. The app notorious for generating non-consensual deepfake pornography now claims it is funding an organisation to support those affected by AI. The ownership of this organisation, or how it helps victims, is unclear. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
Deepfake Porn App Claims to be Donating to Help AI Victims
Clothoff says it is working with “ASU Label” to support those affected by AI. The ownership of this organisation, or how it helps victims, is unclear.
www.bellingcat.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@koltai.bsky.social delves deeper into Clothoff. The app notorious for generating non-consensual deepfake pornography now claims it is funding an organisation to support those affected by AI. The ownership of this organisation, or how it helps victims, is unclear. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
Finding relevant high resolution SAR imagery from Umbra's Open Data Program can be tricky 🛰️
With this new @bellingcat.com project you can browse all the currently available data in Google Earth📍🌏
github.com/bellingcat/u...
With this new @bellingcat.com project you can browse all the currently available data in Google Earth📍🌏
github.com/bellingcat/u...
February 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Finding relevant high resolution SAR imagery from Umbra's Open Data Program can be tricky 🛰️
With this new @bellingcat.com project you can browse all the currently available data in Google Earth📍🌏
github.com/bellingcat/u...
With this new @bellingcat.com project you can browse all the currently available data in Google Earth📍🌏
github.com/bellingcat/u...
Reposted by Melissa Zhu
Watch along as we share our investigation into the deadly opioids Nitazenes, revealing what the online advertisements look like and sharing how the drugs, that can cause an overdose even with trace quantities, are being smuggled into Europe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qU...
The Rise of Nitazenes: The Deadly Opioids Targeting Europe
YouTube video by Bellingcat
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January 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Watch along as we share our investigation into the deadly opioids Nitazenes, revealing what the online advertisements look like and sharing how the drugs, that can cause an overdose even with trace quantities, are being smuggled into Europe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qU...