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"The paramedic who filmed the video was later found with a bullet in his head in the mass grave."

Visual investigations become a mainstay of news "Visual investigations are poised to move from niche desks to standard operating procedure in newsrooms in 2025."

"Journalists will need to pair technical verification with contextual analysis to uncover what visual material reveals, what it excludes, and how it shapes competing narratives," @stalebg.bsky.social writes.

Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months.

Now you can follow this year's Nieman Lab Predictors to keep up with their insights in 2025:
bsky.app/starter-pack...

Advanced Solar Geolocation Tutorial: Proof of Concept 1 Recently, I worked with Bellingcat to develop the Shadow Finder. Previously, people mostly combined the sun and a location to find the…

Advanced Solar Geolocation Tutorial:
For everyone who works with geolocation or chronolocation, I wrote a guide for new method to locate images based only on the time and *a part* of a shadow.
In this scenario, object heights and full shadows are not necessary anymore.
medium.com/@gaborfriese...

Media industry platform adoption of Bluesky moving at lightning pace; the @financialtimes.com has a proper handle and is already using bluesky posts in their stories

New bot alert 🤖🚨This tracks the use of bluesky across a range of international news outlets, showing which skeets are embedded in articles. Check it out at @citations.bsky.social

There’s now a way for journalists to verify their Bluesky accounts through their employers (while still keeping control of them) It may be too late for @edwardrmurrow.cbsnews.com, @huntersthompson.rollingstone.com, or @mikewallace.60minutes.com, but today's reporters have another way to prove who they are on the rapidly growing...

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There’s now a way for journalists to verify their Bluesky accounts through their employers (while still keeping control of them)

www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ther...

YouTube video by Stockholm University Historical maps help us understand how countries have developed over time

Stockholm University's amadestam.bsky.social & team are making an "historical Google Earth" by digitizing 1.8 milion aerial photos from 60 countries (comissioned by 🇬🇧 between '39-'99). Potentially a very valuable source for doing historic visual investigations/OSINT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABvM...

Denne kontoen følger med på hvilke skeets som siteres i skandinaviske nettaviser 🤖

Sill Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Excited to announce the public beta for Sill, my new link collection tool for Bluesky and Mastodon! Sill connects to your accounts and watches your timelines for new links. It then aggregates those and shows you the most popular links in your network. Yes, it's like Nuzzel. Sign up at sill.social!

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads

In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

Et skjermbilde fra TV 2s sending. Jarle Roheim Håkonsen holder opp en stor plakat hvor det står "Avtale mot bruk ac deepfakes stortingsvalget 2025"

TV 2 melder at samtlige stortingspartier har underskrevet en avtale (i regi av IKT Norge) om å ikke bruke "deepfakes" i forbindelse med stortingsvalget neste år. Det skal også omfatte "humor og satire".

I made a starter pack for journalism thinkers on Bluesky. Let me know who I've missed! go.bsky.app/aWdSPb

New feed on open source journalism 📍

For more on verification, visual investigations, open source investigations and OSINT – mostly in a journalistic context– start here (will be updating! ⚠️)

go.bsky.app/JqCpSro

Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X Twitter co-founder’s decision to leave rival social network he helped start was apparently unexpected

"Bluesky began as an internal Twitter team tasked with developing an open source infrastructure on which the entire platform could shift" www.theguardian.com/technology/a...