Seeing plenty of old videos from the Middle East plus some video game footage going viral tonight, mostly posted by accounts seeking clout and engagement during a major news event by spreading misinformation and fear.

Double-check everything you see online tonight.

Known among Ukrainians as mopeds for the sound they make. Brilliant piece from Airwars team.

You are going to hear a lot about Iranian ‘Kamikaze drones’ such as the Shahed in the coming days.

Sanjana and the rest of our team wrote a brilliant visual piece if you want to understand them and the physical and psychological toll they have

airwars.org/investigation/…

Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities intensify, with casualties every day and Kyiv’s largest power station knocked down last night. Republicans in the House have blocked the supply of military aid, especially air-defense missiles, with which Ukraine could have…

“The same number of missiles used in the [2022-23] winter attack are now being directed at five to six energy facilities in one region,” said Maria Tsaturian, head of communications at Ukrenergo, Ukraine’s national transmission system operator.

Read Isobel Koshiw's great story for…

Zelensky pleads with western partners to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems ASAP. “Russians began using guided aerial bombs against the city almost daily,” he says. These bombs are devastating and a weapon for which Kyiv’s forces have “practically no countermeasures,”…

Last Friday, to mark a full year that Evan Gershkovich has spent in jail, we stepped out with friends and colleagues in Berlin. Thank you to Bel Trew for covering:

independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

Happy international fact-checking day! This Thursday, I'm hosting a webinar with Poynter on using Telegram in investigations or fact-checks.

This primer will be ideal for those who have never used Telegram before or used it occasionally and want to go deeper. It's free, sign up!

This World Fact Checking Day, the Prose team has a gift for fact checkers, journalists, disinformation researchers and OSINT analysts.

TelepathyDB - our new Telegram search and analysis tool, is now in open beta and available to trial for free!

➡️ telepathydb.com

Can't say enough good things about this tool and Jordan Wildon, who built it. It's the Telegram tool of my dreams. Run, don't walk, to try it.

Using imagery from the aftermath, Bellingcat geolocates overnight strikes, by Israeli forces, on The World Central Kitchen vehicles to the outskirts of Deir al-Balah. bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/0…

This is the accumulation of my half a decade labour of love trying to better understand (and help make understandable) what happens on Telegram.

I'm so excited to announce we now have a Telegram research and analysis tool complete with UI and analytics.

telepathydb.com

Q&A: Jane Lytvynenko on disinformation and how journalists can navigate an increasingly cloudy social media landscape rappler.com/technology/fea… Hello Jane Lytvynenko! via Rappler

Pioneering disinformation reporter Jane Lytvynenko (Jane Lytvynenko) will host a International Fact-Checking Network webinar about investigating Telegram on April 4.
poynter.org/ifcn/2024/qa-j…

Footage of missile that struck the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant in Zaporizhzhia today, was filmed from an area on the south side of the river, showing a missile flying over the building here: 47.865849, 35.092206

Job alert 📢 We are hiring three fellows to join our #OSINT , #data & reporting teams! If you’re passionate about collaboration & experimenting with investigative tools, apply for our new #fellowship program by April 8 lighthousereports.com/lighthouse-rep…

Meet the shortlisted candidates for our first ever Open Source Film Awards at Centre for Information Resilience. There were some absolutely amazing entries, and these are the entries that made the shortlist. Some incredible open source investigative techniques seen in these, so do check them out!…

It was a total honour to be one of the judges for the inaugural Open Source Firm Awards.
The scope of the submitted works was so inspiring — and SO hard to choose from. A real ode to how the industry has developed both technically and creatively.
Congratulations to all finalists!

I wish I’d never made this film.

I wish I’d been able to exchange this for Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities, never killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. But I cannot change the history. I cannot change the past. But we all together can…

'Probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I’d never made this film. I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine.” speech by my amazing The Associated Press colleague and now Academy Award-winning director Мstyslav Chernov