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Our Global Authentication Project is a vibrant volunteer community that explores, verifies, and sheds light on stories using open source data. At Bellingcat, we seek to democratise investigative work, fostering a collaborative environment for continuous learning and meaningful contributions. Join us in our mission to build a more transparent global community through collective efforts and shared expertise.
Our Global Authentication Project is a vibrant volunteer community that explores, verifies, and sheds light on stories using open source data. At Bellingcat, we seek to democratise investigative work, fostering a collaborative environment for continuous learning and meaningful contributions. Join us in our mission to build a more transparent global community through collective efforts and shared expertise.
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Our Impact in the Courts
Bellingcat and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)’s Justice and Accountability Unit helped build mechanisms for open source research to enhance legal accountability processes, particularly in cases of atrocity crimes. The unit has now published their final report detailing the use of cluster munitions in civilian areas in Kharkiv at the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Recent Highlights & Achievements
August 13, 2025
In May, we, alongside our partners’ CBC’s Visual Investigation Unit, TjekDet and Politiken, revealed the identity of the key administrator behind one of the largest AI porn sites. In August, Dutch politicians across political parties joined politicians in Denmark in calling for the Canadian to be extradited to Europe. The website MrDeepFakes was shut down on May 4 after our collective told Mr. Do that it would be naming him and revealing his role in the enterprise.
August 28, 2025
Bellingcat won the AI Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award at the Online Journalism Awards for our investigative series with the Texas Observer uncovering extremist networks in the USA.
August 13, 2025
In May, we, alongside our partners’ CBC’s Visual Investigation Unit, TjekDet and Politiken, revealed the identity of the key administrator behind one of the largest AI porn sites. In August, Dutch politicians across political parties joined politicians in Denmark in calling for the Canadian to be extradited to Europe. The website MrDeepFakes was shut down on May 4 after our collective told Mr. Do that it would be naming him and revealing his role in the enterprise.
August 28, 2025
Bellingcat won the AI Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award at the Online Journalism Awards for our investigative series with the Texas Observer uncovering extremist networks in the USA.
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