Galen Reich
Bellingcat | Formerly BBC | PhD in Electrical Engineering | He/Him
🌐 https://galen.reich.me.uk
- Reposted by Galen ReichNEW: Previously unreported Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson discussing a Panama-linked tax avoidance structure for a £750k Rio apartment - with Epstein as his "chief life adviser". Exclusive Tax Policy Associates report:
- Reposted by Galen ReichJust hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
- It was a pleasure to talk with @pbump.com about the work of Bellingcat and our ongoing series of challenges! If you like newsletters, you should definitely subscribe to How To Read This Chart 📊 And check out Bellingcat's Challenge Newsletter here too 🔎 bellingcat-challenges.beehiiv.com/subscribe
- How Bellingcat is training people to take a critical eye to photos and videos, finding information buried beneath the surface. This week's newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-th...
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- Reposted by Galen ReichAn investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
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- Reposted by Galen ReichI'll be honest. There are a lot of awful things that are happening in the world. But I can sleep at night knowing that I work at a place that tries to make sure we do our part to make sure those wrongs don't go unnoticed. All I need to do is look at our homepage and know I'm in the right place.
- Reposted by Galen ReichAnother Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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- It's go time! Every month, @merelzoet.bsky.social and I bring together five open source research challenges! 👉 challenge.bellingcat.com 👈 After several specialist themed challenges, we're back to our roots with traditional geolocations. Can you track down our holiday snaps? 📸🏝️
- My latest Bellingcat tool is out! It lets you search what was said in council meetings across the UK and Ireland, and takes you directly to the right part of the video session to verify. Check it out and let me know what you think! 👇 council-search.bellingcat.com
- This WW2 map was drawn by my grandpa, Doug Reich, while in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp ✍️ Here's his story 👇
- The latest Bellingcat Challenge has just landed! Get ready to dive into the murky world of money, art, and relics 🪙🎨🗿 ➡️ challenge.bellingcat.com ⬅️ A huge thanks to @arca-artcrime.bsky.social for creating these amazing educational challenges! 🙌
- Reposted by Galen ReichWe did it before, we’re doing it now, and we’ll do it again. Big thanks to @beaudonelly.bsky.social @conplnk.bsky.social @koltai.bsky.social @charleymaher.bsky.social @merelzoet.bsky.social @galen.reich.me.uk
- Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Galen ReichWe’re back — the new open source challenges launch today! This month they were created by the one and only @gralhix.bsky.social, and take a deep dive into Bellingcat’s archives. Are you ready? Find the new challenges on Challenge.bellingcat.com
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- What a week! Take a breather from it all with the Bellingcat challenge and get lost among multicoloured satellite images! 🧩👉 challenge.bellingcat.com If you get stuck, you can always join our Discord server for advice from our amazing community! 🆘👉 discord.gg/bellingcat
- The Bellingcat challenge is back (and set by me this week)! 👉 challenge.bellingcat.com 👈 This week's challenge uses satellite images taken with Landsat 8 - but the colours aren't always 'normal'... 🛰️ Can you complete them? 🔍
- Finding relevant high resolution SAR imagery from Umbra's Open Data Program can be tricky 🛰️ With this new @bellingcat.com project you can browse all the currently available data in Google Earth📍🌏 github.com/bellingcat/u...
- The data refreshes every day, so it should always be (fairly) up to date!
- If you're looking for something to occupy your brain between napping and leftovers, the Bellingcat challenge is ready for you! ✨ Twenty open source challenges await at challenge.bellingcat.com 👀 It's been a lot of fun building the site and pulling the challenges together, I hope you enjoy them!
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- It's Friday! And the second week of Bellingcat open source research challenges are fully unlocked 🔓 Try them out now 👇 challenge.bellingcat.com
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- Challenge unlocked!🔓 If you've not tried them yet, the first batch of @bellingcat.com challenges are unlocked! Try them here 👇 challenge.bellingcat.com
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