Richard Irvine-Brown
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Journo. BBC Verify.
Digital investigative journalism since 2014, cars/money data before, BBC Sport 2007-2011.
- Watch: How we put together what happened during Russian's renewed attacks on Ukraine, starting on Sunday. Particularly, how we could work out where at least 12 miners were killed, near Pavlohrad. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... How-to-open-source-this-yourself thread to follow.
- 1/ The widest part of the drone video is the first frame. Elements: Billboard, path, trees, pylon. Plus large building and chimney (left side of frame, behind/beneath the beneath). All reports say this happened in Ternivka, so we start looking for those elements there.
- 2/ Copernicus Browser has electricity lines dotted around many sites, including Ternivka, like constellations. (I've highlighted a couple of pylons, here.) We follow those to see if we can find the other elements nearby.
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View full thread9/ Team effort, as always. Video produced by @herdjemimah.bsky.social Additional verification by @sryder.bsky.social Peer review by @kayleendevlin.bsky.social Overseen by @olgar.bsky.social
- Gaza, with @paulybrown.bsky.social and @benedictgarman.com, locating three of the strikes from Friday and Saturday. Two from Gaza City, one from al-Mawasi. On the BBC Verify live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
- For an example of the work we're writing about, here's an approximate sketch for the key landmarks for the strike around Amer Ben Alaas road, Gaza City, the one for which we've labelled the projectile. Approximate strike location: 31.524866, 34.450788 (try it on a map site of your choice).
- Latest deadly Russian strikes in Ukraine. Copy from me on what we could say on Zaporizhzhia: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Here's a how-we-know on the strike on the miners: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
- And how-we-know on the maternity hospital: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
- Reposting to share we've posted the video on YouTube (should you wish to go to a separate social media platform to see it): www.youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...
- BBC Verify is trying to show the world (a) how we know what we know, and (b) how you can do it, too. Always needs a team. Here's a crash course, using examples from @shayan86.bsky.social, @paulybrown.bsky.social, @emmapengelly.bsky.social, @sryder.bsky.social and @danict89.bsky.social.
- If you liked BotW, try Necronomicon, a portmanteau Lovecraft movie from the Yuzna/Gordon stable starring Bruce Campbell and David Warner. Exactly as good as that sentence sounds to you, with Christopher Gans directing the first part. It’s a moody oddity versus the next two splatter-y stories.
- Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Brotherhood of the Wolf, the greatest 18th century France kung-fu/undercover nun/monster horror/action movie ever put to film! Seriously, go watch it. #dailynerdfix #moviesky
