News organizations are using sophisticated new technologies to transform the way they conduct investigations. That includes increasingly relying on publicly available, or “open-source” material from mobile phones, satellite images and security cameras.
The Post team is an outgrowth of efforts begun in 2019 to verify the authenticity of potentially newsworthy video. There are many ways to smoke out fakes, including examining shadows to determine if the apparent time of day in the video corresponds to when the activity supposedly captured actually took place.
Still new, the open-source storytelling isn’t bound by rules that govern story length or form. A video can last a few minutes or, in the case of “Day of Rage,” 40 minutes. Work can stand alone or be embedded in text stories. They can be investigations or experiences; The Times used security and cell-phone video, along with interviews, to tell the story ofLeaders in the field cite the work of the website Storyful, which calls itself a social media intelligence agency, and Bellingcat as pioneers.
The commercial availability of satellite images was a landmark, too. The Times used satellite images to quickly disprove Russian claims that atrocities committed in Ukraine had been staged.
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