Sudan's battle of the bridges - how an army counteroffensive that started with key bridges on the Nile led to today's dramatic capture of the presidential palace. A major moment in a brutal war approaching its third year. w/ Ivor Prickett and Abdalrahman Altayeb nytimes.com/video/world/af…

Together with our publishing partners, Bellingcat continues the work of drone journalists who had been killed while documenting the war in Gaza, visualising the unprecedented scale of destruction through detailed 3D aerial maps. bellingcat.com/news/2025/03/2…

Watch our 24-minute documentary on the investigation here: youtube.com/watch?v=ZLbvuz…

A January operation in the central Californian city of Bakersfield saw dozens detained by border patrol agents operating more than 300 miles from the US southern border. Bellingcat worked with Evident and CalMatters to piece together the operation bellingcat.com/news/2025/04/0…

"Hi Francesca, we are going to respectfully decline an interview" I am going to respectfully file a torrent of FOIA requests ... and you cannot stop me <3

NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the admin is trying to deport 100s of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why. Some, traffic offenses. Some didn't commit a crime. One's "record"? Being a domestic violence victim.zeteo.com/p/trump-is-try…

This isn't from a crashed aircraft. This is a drop tank from an aircraft, and none of the photos show any other aircraft parts.

Thread with Maxar Technologies satellite imagery showing the aftermath of two locations in Pakistan struck by India overnight.

Thread of munition remnants and unexploded ordnance from the Pakistan-India Conflict:

❌FALSE: A video showing #DonaldTrump threatening to destroy #Pakistan if it attacks #India is fake. Forensic audio analysis and deepfake tools confirm it was digitally manipulated. Trump has remained neutral during the India-Pakistan crisis. sochfactcheck.com/did-the-us-pre…

Filmed in this area: google.com/maps/place/31%… Parts of the Tel Sultan neighborhood were relatively -- compared to the rest of Rafah, which is almost entirely gone -- unharmed. Looks like the IDF is now destroying this large residential area.

Read this piece from +972 Magazine if you found our Rafah satellite analysis interesting. 972mag.com/israel-gaza-to…

Excited to be in Rio de Janeiro representing Soch Fact Check at our fourth annual Global Fact, as the only Pakistani member of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Looking forward to further collaboration with our IFCN colleagues around the world.

Coming up: reporters guide for detecting ai-generated images and videos, to be published by Global Investigative Journalism Network, with Shayan Sardarizadeh . Over 27 pages of tips and tools.

Viral posts claim that lawyer Imaan Mazari said Punjabi civilians killed in Balochistan by the BLA are not martyrs. However, Soch Fact Check investigated and found that the quote was falsely attributed to Siasat.pk. sochfactcheck.com/imaan-mazari-d…

I will never forget the moment Anas took off his helmet and press vest and was raised upon the shoulders of his people as he announced the ceasefire. The scale of this loss is immeasurable. May he finally rest with his creator, far away from this rotten, spineless world.

From Anas’s pre-written final message, to be posted upon his killing. ‘May God be a witness to those who remained silent, who accepted our killing, and whose hearts were not moved by the remains of our children and women, and who did not stop the massacre of our people.’