Verifisering er praksisen eller prosessen i etterforskning for å bekrefte nøyaktigheten eller påliteligheten til kilder eller innhold. En kilde kan være en video, et bilde, en nyhetssak, et innlegg i sosiale medier osv., og verifiseringsmetoden er avhengig av kilden din. Hvis du for eksempel har et bilde som du trenger for å bekrefte tidspunktet og […]
Verification & Social Media
Verification is the practice or process in an investigation of confirming the accuracy or reliability of sources or content. A source could be a video, a picture, news story, social media post, etc. and the method of verification is dependent on your source. For example, if you have an image that you need to verify […]
The trillion-dollar gambling game
In this piece, Philippe Auclair dismantles the structure of foreign gambling investments in the United Kingdom’s Premier League. Unknown Asian gambling companies (predominantly from China and operating out of the Philippines) have in recent years become a dominant sponsor of football teams across Europe and particularly in the UK. They achieved this through proxy’s established […]
Visual storytelling: Sputnik for Sale
Sputnik for Sale is about a Dubai sheikh, a Norwegian businessman previously charged with money laundering, and Steven Seagal, together they have a plan to sell overpriced Russian made vaccines to countries with otherwise little access to vaccines elsewhere. The story by VG, a Norwegian newspaper, is one that highlights the issue of Covid vaccine […]
Visuelle fortellinger: ‘Sputnik for sale’
Sputnik for Sale handler om en Dubai-sjeik, en norsk forretningsmann tidligere siktet for hvitvasking av penger, og Steven Seagal, sammen har de en plan om å selge overprisede russiskproduserte vaksiner til land med ellers liten tilgang til vaksiner andre steder. Historien fremhever problemet angående Covid-vaksinetilgjengelighet i land som Ghana, som et resultat av overdreven hamstring […]
Pandora Papers: betydningen av offshore leaks
3. oktober 2021 lanserte den International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) Pandora parirene. Et resultatet av et samarbeid mellom 600 journalister i 117 land. De hadde brukt to år på å anlysere nesten 12 millioner dokumenter som viser til offshore-kontoer, eiendom, sosiale nettverker, selskaper, offentlige personer, organisasjoner – og mye, mye mer. Lekkasjen, kalt Pandora-papirene, […]
The trillion-dollar gambling game
I denne artikkelen demonterer Philippe Auclair strukturen til utenlandske gamblinginvesteringer i fotball, spesielt Storbritannias Premier League. Ukjente asiatiske gamblingselskaper (hovedsakelig fra Kina og opererer fra Filippinene) har de siste årene blitt en dominerende sponsor for fotballag over hele Europa og spesielt i Storbritannia. Ved å etablere frontselskaper på Isle of Ma, klarte de å unngå […]
Pandora Papers: the importance of offshore leaks for investigations
On October 3rd, 2021, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) announced that a collaborative effort between 600 journalists in 117 countries had spent two years deciphering nearly 12 million documents detailing offshore accounts, property, the relationships between people, companies, public figures, organisations – and much, much more. Called the Pandora papers, the leak is […]
Geolocation: AI in Open Source Investigations
Much has been made about Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used to spread disinformation. The latest threat (I use threat lightly here) to open-source investigations is AI created maps and satellite imagery (or deep fakes). However, little has been made about efforts to use AI for citizen investigations, at least on a level accessible to all […]