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Today, Bellingcat launches its formal membership program. For over a decade, our investigations have contributed to international court rulings, identified state actors behind war crimes, and documented accountability failures on American streets. This work has always been free to access. That independence depends on individual supporters. If evidence-based accountability journalism matters to you
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When digital media is leaked or manipulated, it can be difficult to trace it back to its source. Today we're exploring how forensic watermarking is being developed to improve traceability and accountability in leaked intimate imagery. Join us live at 5pm CEST / 11am EDT: https://discord.gg/a9TVpY8R6?event=1521091627039592609
📊 Post engagement
35
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Today, Bellingcat launches its formal membership program. For ov · 97 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.5 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
621×
Follows 58 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Today, Bellingcat launches its formal membership program. For over a decade, our investigations have contributed to international court rulings, identified state actors behind war crimes, and documented accountability failures on American streets. This work has always been free …
Open source tools can help track every stage of a wildfire, from the first reports through to assessing the damage once the flames are out. Throughout July, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service helped researchers monitor how wildfi…
Bellingcat and The Press have uncovered a series of connections between a New Zealand-based man and the adult forum LeakedBB – a site with over 2.3 million registered users, including some who distributed leaked nude photos and videos. htt…
You can read Cerosetenta's full statement here, with comments from Bellingcat included: https://cerosetenta.uniandes.edu.co/cerosetenta-acudira-a-la-corte-constitucional-tras-fallo-de-juez-que-le-ordena-eliminar-investigacion-sobre-presunt…
Cerosetenta will now challenge that appellate decision in Colombia’s Constitutional Court. We support this challenge and of their right to inform their audience of important matters such as this. We also stand by the veracity of the story.
Initially, a court ruled in favor of Cerosetenta and freedom of expression, finding the publication did not violate the fundamental rights of the former candidate, as he had argued. But that decision was overturned on appeal.
The investigation was published on May 11 and used open sources and material from the former candidate himself to – among other things – demonstrate apparent interactions with a Bogota-based neo-Nazi group, the local branch of the interna…
Our Colombian partner, Cerosetenta, was ordered by a judge to remove a joint investigation we published with them about a political candidate and his alleged links to members of an international neo-Nazi group in Bogota. Cerosetenta will n…
We’re back with a brand-new open source challenge! This month they were created by a guest contributor who has manipulated a series of images. Can you spot what has been edited? Try them here: https://challenge.bellingcat.com/
More than 3,500 deaths are confirmed since the earthquakes in Venezuela, the UN reports that the death toll could reach 10,000. Bellingcat has geolocated footage that appears to show several coffins placed in newly dug trenches.
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When digital media is leaked or manipulated, it can be difficult to trace it back to its source. Today we're exploring how forensic watermarking is being developed to improve traceability and accountability in leaked intimate imagery. Join…
Extreme wildfire activity worldwide has more than doubled in the past 21 years. What tools can we use to track wildfires and report on the damage they leave behind? Find out in our latest guide: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos…
When digital media is leaked or manipulated, it can be difficult to trace it back to its source. Today we're exploring how forensic watermarking is being developed to improve traceability and accountability in leaked intimate imagery. Join…
Extreme wildfire activity worldwide has more than doubled in the past 21 years. What tools can we use to track wildfires and report on the damage they leave behind? Find out in our latest guide: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mstdn.social
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Oct 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 35 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.5× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.
Want to support our charity? http://bellingcat.com/donate/
Buy our book "We Are Bellingcat" here: http://bit.ly/2EP09EN
Our award-winning podcast series: http://apple.co/36LJURI
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