Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit [bit.ly/bcattools]

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1	Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
2	bit.ly/bcattools \| last update: August 2023
3	This toolkit is not active anymore. Our new toolkit is here: https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit
4	Welcome to Bellingcat’s freely available online open source investigation toolkit.
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6	This toolkit includes satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive web pages, and much more.
7	Follow Bellingcat's work via the website or through social media. We provide workshops to familiarize with these tools, and learn open source investigative methods.
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9	We are currently in the process of updating this toolkit. If you have any feedback on the toolkit, please get in touch with Johanna Wild (toolkit@bellingcat.com, please do not use this e-mail address to suggest tools that you would like to see added to the toolkit!)
10	Tools marked in yellow are the most used per category by Bellingcat.
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12	Just getting started? Read these:	Sheet Map:
13	First Steps to Getting Started in Open Source Research	image/video 📸	stay safe ⚠️
14	A Beginners Guide to Social Media Verification	social media 🤳	archiving 🗃️
15		people (phone, email, username)🧑‍🤝‍🧑	dataviz 📊
16	Bellingcat links:	maps/satellites 🗺️	guides ❓
17	Website	transport ✈️	education 📐
18	Discord	websites 🌐	misc
19	Patreon	companies & finance 💵
20	Github	environment & wildlife 🌳🐯
21	Youtube	non-english 🌍
22	BlueSky
23	Reddit
24	Mastodon
25	Facebook
26	Twitter
27	Twitch
28	Soundcloud
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