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Open source analysis finds increasing damage to Myanmar’s schools with more than 170 incidents since military coup
Damage to Myanmar's schools and universities has left a generation of school children “caught in the crossfire”.
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Sudan Witness
Jul 184 min read
Sudan monthly update: the RSF makes strategic gains across Sennar State, with takeover of Jebel Moya and Sinja
(Image source: RSF X) The RSF made strategic gains in Sennar in June. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled.
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Dr Adam Ure
Jul 45 min read
Information warfare: five ways Russia captured Ukrainian media
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw forces attempt to occupy not only land but minds.
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CIR
Jul 18 min read
Islamic State Crocus City Hall attack: analysing the background and online responses
CIR examines the perpetrators behind the Moscow Crocus City Hall attack, the responses from ISKP and reactions from their supporters online.
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CIR
Jun 263 min read
Open source analysis reveals more than 200 mining contracts set up since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan
In September 2023, the Taliban announced that they had signed more than $6.5 billion in new mining deals. CIR’s Afghan Witness project...
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Benjamin Strick
Jun 1312 min read
Return of the RealSikhs: the fake network targeting Sikhs across the world despite platform takedowns
A network that labels Sikh activists as "extremists" and attempts to undermine calls for Sikh independence has reappeared on social media.
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CIR
Jun 68 min read
The challenges of open source research in conflict zones: “What we see is the most violent footage – some days, that’s all you see”
Several CIR open source investigators shed light on the challenges of investigating human rights abuses and war crimes.
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CIR
Jun 42 min read
Mapping the media landscape in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories
CIR, together with Detector Media, reveal the network of actors behind the “media occupation” of Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories.
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CIR
May 233 min read
Pro-Kremlin content targets South African social media users, pushing narratives around Ukrainian neo-Nazism
Narratives were spread through official Kremlin-aligned and controlled channels, but also via Western-based social media influencers.
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CIR
May 156 min read
How the Kremlin launders disinformation around the globe
CIR explores the Russian influence operations that have attempted to spread disinformation, sow division and undermine democracy.
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CIR
May 124 min read
More than 200 villages and towns damaged or destroyed by fire since the start of the war in Sudan, with April the worst month on record
Open source shows 72 villages and settlements were damaged or destroyed by fire during April - more than the previous three months combined.
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CIR
May 84 min read
Silenced, shamed, threatened: new research reveals how online abuse has become normalised for Ethiopian women
Online abuse targeting Ethiopian women has become “so normalised it’s invisible”, according to research carried out by CIR.
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Sudan Witness
Apr 252 min read
Fire damage to Muqrin, North Darfur
Sudan Witness has geolocated footage of fire damage to an internally displaced person’s (IDP) camp in Muqrin, North Darfur. Darfur...
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Sudan Witness
Apr 242 min read
Fire damage to the commercial area of Zamzam IDP camp
CIR verified that fires destroyed the northern section of the market area of Zamzam, a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in...
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Ross Burley
Apr 223 min read
The CIR Open Source Film Awards
The transcript of the opening speech at the CIR Open Source Film Awards.
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Afghan Witness
Apr 216 min read
Rising reports of femicide: new digital map documents cases of violence and repression of Afghan women in ‘public’ roles
Female-led newsroom Zan Times used investigative reporting and open source techniques to document the killings, disappearances and arrests
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CIR
Apr 43 min read
Afghan media outlet Etilaatroz launch fact-checking unit as a result of Afghan Witness partnership
CIR is delighted to announce the launch of a new fact-checking unit by Afghan media outlet, Etilaatroz. The unit, named ‘Sanjah’ – a...
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CIR
Mar 284 min read
More than 100 villages devastated by fire since start of Sudan conflict last April
لقراءة المقال بالعربية At least 108 villages and settlements have been partially or completely destroyed by fire since the start of the...
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Sudan Witness
Mar 283 min read
Fires following reported SAF airstrike in El Daein, East Darfur
لقراءة المقال بالعربية CIR verified that large fires broke out in at least two locations in El Daein, East Darfur, on 20 February 2024....
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CIR
Mar 222 min read
Dnipro Dam Attack: a wave of Russian strikes hits Ukraine
On 22 March 2024, Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, hitting the hydroelectric power plant in...
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