Pallabi Munsi

Watch: CNN investigates Israel’s strikes on key Iranian officials — and their civilian toll | CNN Israel’s strikes not only took out top Iranian leaders, they also caused civilian deaths. CNN’s Katie Polglase breaks down the human toll at the locations where top Iranian officials were killed.

Investigating Israel's strikes on Iran and their impact on civilians. We cross referenced addresses of Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists from a public database with geolocated footage of strikes.

@pallabimunsi.bsky.social & Oscar Featherstone

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YouTube video by CNN How Ukraine's growing sky power is redefining modern warfare

Our data-led analysis of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia. Plus we interview a drone maker whose equipment was likely used in the Russian airbase attacks.

Thanks to Vica Butenko, Julie Zink, Oscar Featherstone
@vascocotovio.bsky.social @pallabimunsi.bsky.social

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Iran’s shadow war with Israel is ensnaring Swedish teens, security services say Teenagers are being hired by gangs to carry out crimes in Sweden. Now, security services say, some are unwittingly acting on behalf of the Iranian regime.

Swedish gangs have been exploiting children and teenagers as hired guns in a wave of violence. Now, intelligence sources say, the Iranian regime is using them in a shadow war against Israel. @katiepolglase.bsky.social and @pallabimunsi.bsky.social investigate: edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Iran’s shadow war with Israel is ensnaring Swedish teens, security services say Teenagers are being hired by gangs to carry out crimes in Sweden. Now, security services say, some are unwittingly acting on behalf of the Iranian regime.

Our latest: we've been digging on why Swedish teenagers carried out missions against Israeli interests in Europe at the behest of Iran.

@pallabimunsi.bsky.social @elizamackintosh.bsky.social Barbara Arvanitidis, Mark Baron, Alex Platt, Li-Lian Ahlskog-Hou & many more.

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Honoured to be on such an impressive panel at the Frontline Club tomorrow. Discussing OSINT in visual investigations.

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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This story is bananas.

"A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20 ... They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort."

Myanmar junta intimidates aid groups in effort to hide hunger crisis Myanmar’s army has warned aid workers not to release data showing millions are hungry. Fearing retaliation, aid groups have held back publicizing their findings

Myanmar’s ruling junta has suppressed information about a severe food crisis gripping the country by pressuring researchers not to collect data about hunger and aid workers not to publish it, Reuters reports reut.rs/3ZA2JEh

MSF, and local sources on the ground, reporting heavy RSF artillery fired into ZamZam displacement camp in North Darfur.

For months, monitors have warned that RSF could commit massacres in ZamZam if el-Fasher falls to the paramilitary.

Trump press secretary pick removed post praising Pence on January 6, then ran for Congress as an election denier | CNN Politics Karoline Leavitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, deleted two social media posts she shared after the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol — including a retweet...

NEW on CNN: We uncovered that Trump's incoming-White House press secretary purged tweets from her timeline praising Pence for certifying the election on January 6 and praising Capitol police .

Just a year later she ran for Congress denying the 2020 election results.

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Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research' A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.

New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...

Table from NetBlocks showing online platform feature restrictions by ISPs in Pakistan for the social media platform Bluesky from November 19 to November 20, 2024. The table lists major ISPs including Nayatel, Jazz, and Wateen, with restrictions affecting both website access and content delivery networks (CDN). The status for all entries is "DOWN," with reachability recorded at 0% across the board. The incident corroborates user reports of access issues to Bluesky and reflects Pakistan's broader trend of targeting social media platforms and VPN services in recent months. The table highlights widespread and systematic restrictions across ISPs.

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show social media platform Bluesky, a popular X alternative, has been restricted in Pakistan, corroborating user reports of issues accessing the service; Pakistan has imposed a growing number of social media platform bans and is also targeting VPN services

Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think One expert says her views are ‘so wildly fringe that her potential appointment as DNI is genuinely alarming’, Richard Hall and Andrew Feinberg write

Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Crucial tools for bluesky osint

This is good - Chinese state media (and the govt's trolls and bots) started to find their way on Twitter, only for users to abandon the platform. Now they'll be heading for Bluesky, although the lack of an algorithm to game might make things more challenging

Billionaire Gautam Adani indicted in New York on bribery charges | CNN Business Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and other executives were indicted in New York for roles in a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice said Wednesday.

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and other executives have been indicted in New York for roles in a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice says.

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate V...

President-elect Donald Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency is looking at ending remote work as a way to reduce the number of federal employees through attrition.

New era, new platform. Let’s do this.