As a non-profit, Bellingcat relies on the support of kind individual donors to continue building tools and providing research guidance. If you’d like...

   Struggling to find the right tool for your work on our GitHub repository? The Bellingcat Toolkit guides you through a wider list of research tools by...

   Our latest tool helps you visualise historical trends in flight data and identify unusual patterns.Turnstone aggregates ADS-B data across multiple...

   One of our most widely used tools is the auto-archiver, designed to preserve online content before it can be modified, deleted, or taken down. It’s...

   At Bellingcat, we’re not just producing investigations we also want to empower you to carry out your own. That’s why we build tools to help you dig...

   An analyst and researcher, Chu Yang is experienced in studying Chinese and Iranian digital audiences. She also contributes to the China Media Project...

   The Chinese social media landscape can feel unfamiliar and harder to access for research especially on a foreign device. On Thursday Chu Yang joins...

   New: Bellingcat has identified at least 80 police stations and law enforcement or Basij paramilitary group infrastructure which were damaged or...

   Researching China is hard many foreign sites are blocked, making domestic platforms vital for journalists. Even under tight controls, Chinese apps...

   India has exported more than 320 million unapproved synthetic opioid pills to West Africa in just three years. Trade data shows over 1,400 shipments...

   Looking to develop your investigative skills?Our latest challenges focus exclusively on audio analysis, without visual cues an increasingly relevant...

   Latest: Bellingcat has found close to 800 Hungarian government emails and associated passwords online, which in some cases have exposed confidential...

   With widespread internet blackouts in Iran and new restrictions on some satellite imagery in the region, Bellingcat is launching a tool to help...

   A new set of challenges is live today This month, we’ve removed all visuals, so you can put your open source investigative skills to the test using...

   As Iranian drones target the UAE, Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions....

   Not one, but two waves of bombings appear to have struck the area near an elementary school in Minab, Iran. According to Iranian media, 175 people...

   Bellingcat and Josimar identified the representative of an Asian bookmaker who used a false name to sign a sponsorship deal with Croatia’s national...

   What work goes into tracking the traffickers? Join us live on Thursday at 11am EDT 5pm CEST as we speak to Foeke Postma , the Bellingcat researcher...

   Videos of explosions have fueled misunderstanding and misinformation in the conflict between US, Israel and Iran, with munition types incorrectly...

   Two new videos have emerged showing the deadly strikes that hit an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound, as well as an adjacent girls’...