Pleased to have our latest piece in collaboration with @nikkei.com finally out. Thanks to @beaudonelly.bsky.social @conplnk.bsky.social and @merelzoet.bsky.social

Our Discord stage talk where Arthur Brand @artdetective.bsky.social will discuss some of his fascinating art recoveries is happening tomorrow. No excuses - you have to be there

Illustration by Ann Kiernan for Bellingcat

We’re back with a new series of open source challenges! Bellingcat researcher @oldpete45.bsky.social created five exercises that allow you to uncover some dark secrets buried in time. Welcome to a world of forgotten files, and (confusing) historic maps! ➡️ challenge.bellingcat.com

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site | Bellingcat Get more from Bellingcat on Patreon

In the latest Bellingchat Premium episode we talk about how we investigated MrDeepfakes, current state of non-consensual AI deepfakes pornography and what is coming up next

www.patreon.com/posts/131814...

Day 2 art crime challenge is on!

These challenges were created by The Association for Research into Crimes against Art @arca-artcrime.bsky.social, a research organisation dedicated to the study of art crime and promotes the protection of cultural heritage. Check out their work here: www.artcrimeresearch.org

This week we’re showing you what investigating art crimes takes. Test your skills and learn some new ones with our fascinating challenges!

My big thanks to @sauterne.bsky.social, @merelzoet.bsky.social and @galen.reich.me.uk

My latest. I heard about this growing up and spent the last few years seeing what FOIAs, interviews, and archives can tell us. It’s a glimpse into the murky, ruthless underworld of 1970s Texas. Grateful for my brilliant editors @gycsak.bsky.social @liseolsen.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social

CBC's visual investigation unit, in partnership with @bellingcat.com, @tjekdet.dk , and @politiken.dk revealed for the first time who the key person behind it is.

A hospital pharmacist from Canada — David Do.

He's the key person behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. And he's Canadian | CBC News A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-...

INVESTIGATION: With Bellingcat, Politiken, and Tjekdet, our team identified the person behind MrDeepFakes—the largest non-consensual deepfake porn site that shut down after our reporting.
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We 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

The Life and Death of Leonardo Patterson: A Dealer in Stolen History "A blog about art crimes, illicit trafficking, forgery, art theft and cultural heritage protection."

The Life and Death of Antiquities Trafficker Leonardo Patterson: A Dealer in Stolen History

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Auto Archiver, our free in-house archiving tool, just got a major update. It archives social media posts, videos, images, and webpages in a secure and *verifiable* way and is very easy to use.

Join the Bellingcat Discord Server! Come hang out with open source research enthusiasts, share knowledge and experiences, and learn lots! | 34512 members

Art crime office hours today (19/03) at 6 pm CET / 1pm ET - come along discord.gg/MTRGXpCZ?eve...

Tomorrow in De Telegraaf one of the craziest international art thefts I have ever solved. A story about a fantastic painting and a murder. A story worthy of a Spy novel.

New from me!
This article dives into a sketchy non-profit (so they claim) that Clothoff is supposedly donating money to.

Lots of dodging of questions, and no evidence to suggest that they exist beyond a website.

Copyfish 🐟 Free OCR Software - Chrome Web Store Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

A handy chrome ext to capture, recognise, and copy in-browser text in many languages with an option to send it straight to google translate or deepL. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/eenjd...

Join our first Discord #artcrime office hours on 19/02 at 5pm UK!

Link: discord.gg/kNCJtNhrHw

Thanks to @sauterne.bsky.social for accepting our invitation to join us. You can listen to the Stage Talk with Lynda on the topic here: rss.com/podcasts/bel...

Apple users can enjoy it too

Happy to have contributed to this piece with our fantastic Financial Investigations Team

Chinese Suppliers Behind Ads Deadly For Nitazenes Targeting Europe Investigation finds more than 1,000 online ads for nitazenes, including from Chinese companies, and links European shipments of the deadly drugs to China.

Adverts selling an opioid up to 500 times stronger than heroin are all over the internet, from social media platforms to trade sites. Bellingcat and partner Postimees investigate how this deadly drug is infiltrating Europe: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01...

In case you missed it, we got you

Join us tomorrow, it’ll be fun

Join the Bellingcat Discord Server! Come hang out with open source research enthusiasts, share knowledge and experiences, and learn lots! | 32605 members

🎨 On 16/01/25 ARCA's CEO Lynda Albertson @sauterne.bsky.social will be talking about investigating art crimes. Join our very first Discord Stage Talk of 2025 to learn more about the fascinating world of art crimes! Register here: discord.gg/8WhQpZ8B?event=1318250313257324554 #ArtCrime

Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativit... and one day we’ll find this beauty

First stage talk speaker & channel activities for our new #artcrime channel on Discord coming up soon! 🖼️🔍 Explore, discuss and use your skills to untangle fascinating cases of art theft, laundering, looting, trafficking of cultural heritage and more! Join here: discord.gg/5CgmKVG3