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A Bellingcat and @mongabay investigation has identified nine Facebook groups, in which coded language has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade bans on the platform for years. Facebook says it prohibits any form of animal trading on its platform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQNZlVO21o

How are the leaders of the Kinahan cartel, known for drug trafficking, arms smuggling and violence in Europe, linked to Hezbollah and the Iranian state?Find out in short:https://youtube.com/shorts/xb5ZF9QBrCI?feature=shareWatch the full documentary with Search Party on our YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj0GLUXWhWo

Wildlife traffickers selling protected animals on Facebook use coded language to evade moderation. Research by Bellingcat and @mongabay has identified nine groups, with more than 70,000 members combined, leading back to six profiles and one broker in Indonesia. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/19/how-wildlife-traffickers-are-using-coded-language-to-sell-protected-animals-on-facebook/?utm_source=mastodon

@Bellingcat Disasters and human misery always brings out the scammers. Such creatures might even be lower than scabs and that's saying something.

@Bellingcat https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/investigation-finds-kinahan-cartel-leaders-living-openly-dubai

@Bellingcat I setup a feed from NL to the adsblol servers, they copied the adsbexchange code verbatim but they should elaborate a bit on the setup, it was something of a puzzle to say the least.Also they manage to annoy the openstreetmap people, while their use is generally permissive they are showing tiles saying 'access blocked' instead of map tiles.https://adsb.lol/

How do you monitor live events in real time, know what to look or listen out for and archive before it disappears? OSINT researcher Aram Shabanian joins us tomorrow to break down his favourite public tools for tracking natural disasters and civil emergencies:https://discord.gg/XDvTb8v8?event=1475541963477487847

Exactly four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bellingcat’s Volunteer Community looks back at the data we have collected on civilian harm during this time - documenting attacks on cities and the near-total destruction of rural villages. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02/24/how-russias-war-has-devastated-civilian-life-in-ukraine/?utm_source=mastodon In over 2,500 cases of civilian harm that we have verified, more than 1,100 residential structures were hit. The data only represents a snapshot of the extent of civilian harm across Ukraine.