
Strick, a digital investigator in his free time, first became involved after the BBC reached out to him on Twitter asking for help. RELATED ARTICLE: A 5-point guide to Bellingcat’s digital forensics tool list “We suspected there was enough in the video to geolocate it, so we took a close look,” Adamson said. In July, when the video first went viral, the government there dismissed the allegations as “fake news” on the basis that the soldiers depicted were not wearing the right gear or carrying the right weapons. So the BBC started looking into the video, which allegedly took place in Cameroon. “We thought it was important to at least try to find out who was responsible for the killing of those women and children.”
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“We were - like everyone who saw it - appalled by the video of the killing,” said Daniel Adamson, a series producer with Africa Eye, in a message to Poynter. Then they’re forced to the ground and shot 22 times. The video depicts a group of soldiers escorting two women and two young children, all blindfolded. #BBCAfricaEye investigated this atrocity. They are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. In July 2018, a horrifying video began to circulate on social media.Ģ women & 2 young children are led away by a group of soldiers.

The thread, which summarized a video report, outlined how a team of open-source investigators verified a video from sub-Saharan Africa that had gone viral on social media. The media requests (including this one) came after the news organization’s new investigative unit, Africa Eye, published the project in a Twitter thread Monday morning, racking up nearly 70,000 likes and more than 50,000 retweets as of this posting. After all, it took three months to finish the in-depth, open-source investigation that he helped produce for the BBC. While exhausted by the attention, Strick said it was welcome.
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“I have a TV crew coming in about 10 minutes.

“I am bogged down with interviews at the moment,” the web developer told Poynter in a message Tuesday, a few hours before connecting on Skype. Benjamin Strick’s Twitter mentions were blowing up.
