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Benjamin Strick

Open Source Investigator BBC

Biography

Benjamin Strick is an open source investigator with BBC Africa Eye specialising in data analysis, networks, geospatial intelligence and conflict. He worked on the Peabody Award-winning Anatomy of a Killing, Turkey's Ghost Ships, Sudan’s Secret Hit Squads, and Sudan’s Livestream Massacre and has been the lead trainer/investigator for the EUArms Bellingcat collaboration project.

Ben has investigated for online investigations site Bellingcat, providing case studies on satellite image filtering, geospatial intelligence and bot network analysis. He has a background in law and the military, and focusses on using OSINT/GEOINT and intelligence methods for good, through human rights, conflict, and privacy.

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Data visualisation Case studies Data analysis Data collection Covering issues Quality journalism

Investigating Information Operations in West Papua: A Digital Forensic Case Study of Cross-Platform Network Analysis

A new open source investigation has analysed a well-funded and co-ordinated social media campaign aimed at distorting the truth about events in the restive Indonesian province of Papua has been operating on major social media platforms, and identified those likely to be responsible.

Case studies Data analysis Data collection Covering issues Quality journalism

Facebook Analysis: Pro-Indonesian Government Propaganda Bots Use Facebook Ads To Target Europe

Censorship has surged in West Papua with targeted internet disruption, banning of counter-narrative YouTube content, and disinformation. In this post, I will identify how the information is dispersed on Facebook, and how Facebook Ads are used to promote the pro-Indonesian Government propaganda to European countries.

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