Qais Alamdar
@qaisalamdar.bsky.social
#OSINT Investigator & Analyst | #Afghanistan and the region | Multilingual | Founder @ INTEL FOCUS | AI Disinformation Debunking | Fact Checker | Alumnus @Bard_Berlin | 📧: qaisalamdar@proton.me
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Qais Alamdar
@qaisalamdar.bsky.social
· Jan 14
EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
This open-source report contains a geospatial analysis of Iran’s eastern frontier with Afghanistan revealing security infrastructures, the…
medium.com
🚨Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
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Here you can hear me talking for about half an hour about my favorite topic: disinformation and how to fight it. Thank you @qaisalamdar.bsky.social for inviting me (and I am sure the voice echo on the recording was my fault somehow) open.spotify.com/episode/2T91...
How Fact Checkers Fight Back with Alice Echtermann
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December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Here you can hear me talking for about half an hour about my favorite topic: disinformation and how to fight it. Thank you @qaisalamdar.bsky.social for inviting me (and I am sure the voice echo on the recording was my fault somehow) open.spotify.com/episode/2T91...
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🧑💻🕵️🤖🛡 I was featured on Intel Focus' Intelligence Spotlight podcast, speaking with @qaisalamdar.bsky.social about information warfare evolving in the age of AI, and the challenges and opportunities for researchers and OSINT/SOCMINT investigators in the counter-infops/-misinfo space.
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Inside the Future of Information Warfare & AI Before 2030 With Sohan Dsouza — Intel Focus
Sohan, who has studied influence operations and artificial intelligence ethics through an OSINT lens, told The Intelligence Spotlight podcast that modern disinformation campaigns are less about pers...
www.intelfocus.org
September 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🧑💻🕵️🤖🛡 I was featured on Intel Focus' Intelligence Spotlight podcast, speaking with @qaisalamdar.bsky.social about information warfare evolving in the age of AI, and the challenges and opportunities for researchers and OSINT/SOCMINT investigators in the counter-infops/-misinfo space.
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Recent investigation on Taliban fake accounts on Twitter.
Vor über drei Jahren haben die #Taliban die afghanische Regierung gestürzt und die Kontrolle über das Land übernommen. Eine Recherche von CORRECTIV.Exile zeigt nun, wie diese seitdem den digitalen Raum verstärkt für ihre #Propaganda nutzt – etwa mit Fake-Identitäten und Bot-Accounts.
Das Algorithmus-Emirat der Taliban: Wie Bots ein politisches System festigen und formen können
Die Taliban fälschen Zustimmung im Netz – mit Bots und ausgerechnet weiblichen Fake-Accounts aus der Panjshir-Region verbreiten sie ihre Propaganda. Gemeinsame Recherche mit Osint-Experte Qais Alamdar...
correctiv.org
July 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Recent investigation on Taliban fake accounts on Twitter.
🚨Exclusive Report: I investigated how the Taliban use fake identities and bot accounts to simulate support and exploit the digital space for their propaganda.
It is now published on @correctiv.org. Special thanks to Viera Zuborova, Minou Becker and the others.
correctiv.org/en/internati...
It is now published on @correctiv.org. Special thanks to Viera Zuborova, Minou Becker and the others.
correctiv.org/en/internati...
The Taliban's Algorithmic Emirate: How bots can reinforce and shape a political system
How the Taliban use fake identities and bot accounts to simulate support – and exploit the digital space for their propaganda. An investigation into targeted manipulation, virtual control, and the thr...
correctiv.org
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨Exclusive Report: I investigated how the Taliban use fake identities and bot accounts to simulate support and exploit the digital space for their propaganda.
It is now published on @correctiv.org. Special thanks to Viera Zuborova, Minou Becker and the others.
correctiv.org/en/internati...
It is now published on @correctiv.org. Special thanks to Viera Zuborova, Minou Becker and the others.
correctiv.org/en/internati...
🚨 Iran’s IRGC reportedly prepares Sejjil ballistic missiles (MRBM) to target US bases if any hostile action is taken against Iran.
— Via IRGC-affiliated Telegram channel
— Via IRGC-affiliated Telegram channel
June 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
🚨 Iran’s IRGC reportedly prepares Sejjil ballistic missiles (MRBM) to target US bases if any hostile action is taken against Iran.
— Via IRGC-affiliated Telegram channel
— Via IRGC-affiliated Telegram channel
Live traffic data on Google Maps shows heavy congestion on major roads linking #Tehran to other cities and regions. The Tehran–Karaj highway, which leads towards Qazvin, indicates a significant westward movement of people leaving the capital.
June 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Live traffic data on Google Maps shows heavy congestion on major roads linking #Tehran to other cities and regions. The Tehran–Karaj highway, which leads towards Qazvin, indicates a significant westward movement of people leaving the capital.
🚨 A partially collapsed residential building in central Tehran, reportedly hit during an Israeli strike, has been geolocated to Shahr Ara Street in District 6, within the Sattar Khan neighbourhood–a densely populated area.
🗓️ 13 June 2025
🏙️ Sattar Khan, Tehran, Iran
📍35.714513, 51.370638
🗓️ 13 June 2025
🏙️ Sattar Khan, Tehran, Iran
📍35.714513, 51.370638
June 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🚨 A partially collapsed residential building in central Tehran, reportedly hit during an Israeli strike, has been geolocated to Shahr Ara Street in District 6, within the Sattar Khan neighbourhood–a densely populated area.
🗓️ 13 June 2025
🏙️ Sattar Khan, Tehran, Iran
📍35.714513, 51.370638
🗓️ 13 June 2025
🏙️ Sattar Khan, Tehran, Iran
📍35.714513, 51.370638
Russia parades its fleet of UAVs.
Among them are:
1. Orlan-10, Russian-made, used reconnaissance, electronic warfare, and artillery adjustment.
2. KUB-BLA, Russia-made kamikaze (suicide drone).
3. Lancet-1 and other variants, Russian-made kamikaze drones.
Among them are:
1. Orlan-10, Russian-made, used reconnaissance, electronic warfare, and artillery adjustment.
2. KUB-BLA, Russia-made kamikaze (suicide drone).
3. Lancet-1 and other variants, Russian-made kamikaze drones.
May 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Russia parades its fleet of UAVs.
Among them are:
1. Orlan-10, Russian-made, used reconnaissance, electronic warfare, and artillery adjustment.
2. KUB-BLA, Russia-made kamikaze (suicide drone).
3. Lancet-1 and other variants, Russian-made kamikaze drones.
Among them are:
1. Orlan-10, Russian-made, used reconnaissance, electronic warfare, and artillery adjustment.
2. KUB-BLA, Russia-made kamikaze (suicide drone).
3. Lancet-1 and other variants, Russian-made kamikaze drones.
Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting hints at Crimea strike, Medvedev: "Think twice, Nazi!"
open.substack.com/pub/qaisalam...
open.substack.com/pub/qaisalam...
Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting hints at Crimea strike, Medvedev: "Think twice, Nazi!"
Germany’s CDU leader Friedrich Merz suggests Ukraine could use Taurus missiles to strike Crimea. Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev reacts with fury, branding Merz a “Nazi” in a personal attack.
open.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting hints at Crimea strike, Medvedev: "Think twice, Nazi!"
open.substack.com/pub/qaisalam...
open.substack.com/pub/qaisalam...
The US Air Force covert C-17 mission to Tajikistan and the disinformation that followed
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The US Air Force covert C-17 mission to Tajikistan and the disinformation that followed
Flight tracking data reveals a US Air Force C-17 may have landed in Tajikistan, not Bagram airbase in Afghanistan followed by waves of misinformation and speculation.
open.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The US Air Force covert C-17 mission to Tajikistan and the disinformation that followed
open.substack.com/pub/qaisalam...
open.substack.com/pub/qaisalam...
Explained: how international aid shaped Afghanistan from 2018 to 2021
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Explained: how international aid shaped Afghanistan from 2018 to 2021
Billions flowed in to sustain Afghanistan’s government, army and economy—but between 2018 and 2021, foreign aid exposed as many cracks as it covered.
open.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Explained: how international aid shaped Afghanistan from 2018 to 2021
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open.substack.com/pub/qaisalam...
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It was a pleasure to speak about online misinformation and the importance of - and processes for - verification for Intel Focus’ Intelligence Spotlight Series, with @qaisalamdar.bsky.social & @leilabelmoh.bsky.social.
Link to the podcast below:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/int...
Link to the podcast below:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/int...
The Importance of Fact-Checking for Activists and Human Rights Defenders by The Intelligence Spotlight Series
The first virtual panel of the Intelligence Spotlight series features two distinguished guests from Italy and the UK. Guest speakers bio:Nick Vant is a UK Fact-Checking Producer at Reuters Fact Check ...
creators.spotify.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It was a pleasure to speak about online misinformation and the importance of - and processes for - verification for Intel Focus’ Intelligence Spotlight Series, with @qaisalamdar.bsky.social & @leilabelmoh.bsky.social.
Link to the podcast below:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/int...
Link to the podcast below:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/int...
The full episode is now up on our channels: links below!
Very glad to have hosted @techjoe.bsky.social for the upcoming Intelligence Spotlight podcast series talking about #OSINT and investigative journalism.
Full episode is up on Thursday, Jan 20.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1T8hIfu...
YT: youtube.com/@intelligenc...
Full episode is up on Thursday, Jan 20.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1T8hIfu...
YT: youtube.com/@intelligenc...
January 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The full episode is now up on our channels: links below!
Very glad to have hosted @techjoe.bsky.social for the upcoming Intelligence Spotlight podcast series talking about #OSINT and investigative journalism.
Full episode is up on Thursday, Jan 20.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1T8hIfu...
YT: youtube.com/@intelligenc...
Full episode is up on Thursday, Jan 20.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1T8hIfu...
YT: youtube.com/@intelligenc...
January 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Very glad to have hosted @techjoe.bsky.social for the upcoming Intelligence Spotlight podcast series talking about #OSINT and investigative journalism.
Full episode is up on Thursday, Jan 20.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1T8hIfu...
YT: youtube.com/@intelligenc...
Full episode is up on Thursday, Jan 20.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1T8hIfu...
YT: youtube.com/@intelligenc...
Reposted by Qais Alamdar
🚨Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
This open-source report contains a geospatial analysis of Iran’s eastern frontier with Afghanistan revealing security infrastructures, the…
medium.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🚨Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
🧵 #OSINT | Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
The 930-km Iran-Afghanistan border spans rugged terrains like mountains and rivers, facing challenges from smuggling, tribal tensions, and Taliban-era instability, with intense border control.
*Heat map: border security
The 930-km Iran-Afghanistan border spans rugged terrains like mountains and rivers, facing challenges from smuggling, tribal tensions, and Taliban-era instability, with intense border control.
*Heat map: border security
January 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🧵 #OSINT | Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
The 930-km Iran-Afghanistan border spans rugged terrains like mountains and rivers, facing challenges from smuggling, tribal tensions, and Taliban-era instability, with intense border control.
*Heat map: border security
The 930-km Iran-Afghanistan border spans rugged terrains like mountains and rivers, facing challenges from smuggling, tribal tensions, and Taliban-era instability, with intense border control.
*Heat map: border security
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great work from @qaisalamdar.bsky.social
🚨Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
This open-source report contains a geospatial analysis of Iran’s eastern frontier with Afghanistan revealing security infrastructures, the…
medium.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
great work from @qaisalamdar.bsky.social
🚨Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
This open-source report contains a geospatial analysis of Iran’s eastern frontier with Afghanistan revealing security infrastructures, the…
medium.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🚨Iran’s $3 billion wall and border strategy with Afghanistan
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
A detailed geospatial analysis of #Iran’s eastern frontier with #Afghanistan, presenting key findings, security data, and an open-source interactive map to visualise the region's defence infrastructure.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
An Uzbek commander of the Imam Bukhari Battalion posted a video from Latakia in Syria, congratulating his ''fellow Mujahideen''.
The insignia indicates that he is part of the Imam Bukhari Battalion (كتيبة الإمام البخاري) fighting in Syria. 1/2
📍35.546382, 35.760310
The insignia indicates that he is part of the Imam Bukhari Battalion (كتيبة الإمام البخاري) fighting in Syria. 1/2
📍35.546382, 35.760310
December 9, 2024 at 2:20 PM
An Uzbek commander of the Imam Bukhari Battalion posted a video from Latakia in Syria, congratulating his ''fellow Mujahideen''.
The insignia indicates that he is part of the Imam Bukhari Battalion (كتيبة الإمام البخاري) fighting in Syria. 1/2
📍35.546382, 35.760310
The insignia indicates that he is part of the Imam Bukhari Battalion (كتيبة الإمام البخاري) fighting in Syria. 1/2
📍35.546382, 35.760310
A troubling trend in ads of AI apps on TikTok where images of individuals are turned into kissing scene—it holds greater consequences for culturally sensitive societies and may lead to honour-based violence.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
The dark side of AI creativity: Privacy and sexual harassment concerns
A new wave of AI applications such as Reviva, SelfyzAI, Fotorama and others has taken social media platforms like TikTok by storm through…
medium.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
A troubling trend in ads of AI apps on TikTok where images of individuals are turned into kissing scene—it holds greater consequences for culturally sensitive societies and may lead to honour-based violence.
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
medium.com/@qaisalamdar...
🚨 #Afghanistan | AFF claims an explosion on a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul geolocated
🗓️ 18 November 2024
🌆 Chahar Qala Chahardhi Road, PD6, Kabul
📍 34°29'23.5"N 69°06'51.2"E
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
🌆 Chahar Qala Chahardhi Road, PD6, Kabul
📍 34°29'23.5"N 69°06'51.2"E
1/2
November 18, 2024 at 9:55 PM
🚨 #Afghanistan | AFF claims an explosion on a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul geolocated
🗓️ 18 November 2024
🌆 Chahar Qala Chahardhi Road, PD6, Kabul
📍 34°29'23.5"N 69°06'51.2"E
1/2
🗓️ 18 November 2024
🌆 Chahar Qala Chahardhi Road, PD6, Kabul
📍 34°29'23.5"N 69°06'51.2"E
1/2
A thread | 🚨Several layers surround why the Taliban allegedly abducted Canadian ex-soldier David Lavery.
David, a founding member of Canada’s elite counterterrorism unit, Joint Task Force 2, and the founder of a private security firm in Kabul, was likely captured as leverage. 1/6
David, a founding member of Canada’s elite counterterrorism unit, Joint Task Force 2, and the founder of a private security firm in Kabul, was likely captured as leverage. 1/6
November 16, 2024 at 1:06 PM
A thread | 🚨Several layers surround why the Taliban allegedly abducted Canadian ex-soldier David Lavery.
David, a founding member of Canada’s elite counterterrorism unit, Joint Task Force 2, and the founder of a private security firm in Kabul, was likely captured as leverage. 1/6
David, a founding member of Canada’s elite counterterrorism unit, Joint Task Force 2, and the founder of a private security firm in Kabul, was likely captured as leverage. 1/6
A UN sanctions monitoring team in July 2024 found that Al-Qaeda members enjoy freedom of movement throughout #Afghanistan, using training camps and madrassas across several provinces, including Ghazni, Laghman, and Parwan, for organisational purposes. 1/3
November 14, 2024 at 11:05 PM
A UN sanctions monitoring team in July 2024 found that Al-Qaeda members enjoy freedom of movement throughout #Afghanistan, using training camps and madrassas across several provinces, including Ghazni, Laghman, and Parwan, for organisational purposes. 1/3