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First Steps to Getting Started in Open Source Research

First Steps to Getting Started in Open Source Research

Open source research has “come of age”, according to a recent article published by The Economist. What was once the niche realm of a relatively small number of individuals with free time and obsessive internet habits is now informing…

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John Doe 29: Image From FBI Child Exploitation Case Geolocated to Turkey

Mahbere Dego: Clues to a Clifftop Massacre in Ethiopia

Mahbere Dego: Clues to a Clifftop Massacre in Ethiopia

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Using the Sun and the Shadows for Geolocation

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‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right

‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right

A skinhead carrying a guitar takes his place in front of the microphone in a Budapest park. A few hundred metres away, a police cordon and steel fence buffers the crowd of about 600 people, mostly men dressed in black,…

How Janez Janša’s Media Empire Pushed Slovenia’s Extremes into the Mainstream

How Janez Janša’s Media Empire Pushed Slovenia’s Extremes into the Mains...

Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise

Far-Right

Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right ...

Male State: The Russian Online Hate Group Backing Putin’s War

Male State: The Russian Online Hate Group Backing Putin’s War

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How Russia’s Offensive Damaged Critical Donbas Water Infrastructure

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ILPs

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Meet the Irregular Troops Backing up Russia’s Army in the Kharkiv Region

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GRU

The Brazilian Candidate: The Studious Cover Identity of an Alleged Russian Spy

How Janez Janša’s Media Empire Pushed Slovenia’s Extremes into the Mainstream

How Janez Janša’s Media Empire Pushed Slovenia’s Extremes into the Mainstream  

Clues to the Fate of Five Damaged Cultural Heritage Sites in Ukraine

Clues to the Fate of Five Damaged Cultural Heritage Sites in Ukraine

Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise

Far-Right

Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise

Unravelling the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

Unravelling the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

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QAnon
Russia

Russia’s QAnon Followers Can’t Make Up Their Minds About Ukraine

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Russia’s Kramatorsk ‘Facts’ Versus the Evidence

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