Press


Some of the impactful media mentions on my work and that of the teams I have been supporting.

BBC News – Sudan Conflict: Ethnic Cleansing Committed in Darfur, UK Says

VoA – Open Source Investigators Use Satellites to Identify Burned Darfur Villages

Politico – The End of Photographic Truth

GIJN – 10 Tips for Using Geolocation and Open Source Data to Fuel Investigations

Channel 4 – Ukraine from Above: Secrets from the Frontline

Vice I Debunk Putin’s Lies

France 24 Ukraine: A collaborative map to compile verified videos of the war

The Washington Post This is how journalists figure out if all those Ukraine videos are real

New York MagazineThe Hunt for the Butcher of Bucha

Washington Post – The Rise of the Twitter Spies

The Telegraph Mass graves in Russian held territory increasing rapidly, satellite photos show

BBC News – The Media Show How Digital Sleuths Changed Journalism

Wired If Russia Invades Ukraine, TikTok Will See It Up Close

BBC News Farm Laws: Sikhs Being Targeted by Fake Social Media Profiles

Financial Times The Open-Source Investigators Trying to Bring Justice to Myanmar

France24 Myanmar Witness verifies citizens’ photos and videos to document human rights concerns

NHK News Killings in Myanmar’s Bago behind Information Blackout

Washington Post Anatomy of a crackdown

BBC News How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda

Taylor & Francis Online From Gatekeeper to Gate-opener: Open-Source Spaces in Investigative Journalism

NiemanLab Network analysis enters the journalism toolbox

NPR How India is Confronting Disinformation On Social Media Ahead of Elections

ABC Pacific Beat Investigation claims fake European social media accounts are attempting to influence the West Papua independence movement

BBC World Sudan’s Livestream Massacre

NOS Netherlands Digital Researchers Investigate Execution of Women and Children in Cameroon

Bloomberg Cybersecurity China’s Disinformation Effort Targets Virus, Researcher Says

Layer8 Podcast OSINT takedown of West Papua disinformation network

The Intercept  White House Forced to Retract Claim Viral Videos Prove Antifa Is Plotting Violence

BBC News – Asia  Papua unrest: Social media bots ‘skewing the narrative’

SBS World – Australia – West Papuan Disinformation Network Revealed

Tech Against Terrorism Podcast  The power and responsibility of Open Source Intelligence

ABC News – Pacific Beat – Facebook removes pages from Indonesia amid violence in Papua and West Papua provinces

IHS Janes’ World of Intelligence – Open Source Investigations with Ben Strick

Reuters World News – Analysis Three Americans killed in al Shabaab militant attack on base in Kenya

WIRED – Why can’t Twitter stop Elon Musk Scams?

The Hill – Technology – The frontline of information warfare is literally in your hand

BBC News – Sudan crisis: Security forces ‘move against protesters’

France 24 – Les Observateurs – Au Soudan, des lycéens tués lors d’une manifestation à al-Obeid : “Ils ont été instrumentalisés”

NHK World – Japan – A pioneering quest for the truth

FACTCHECK.KZ – Видео из села Масанчи: проверка достоверности