Centre for Information Resilience

When videos were shared online, showing dozens of people reportedly killed by an airstrike in Ka Nan village in Myanmar, the authorities denied everything on national tv.  We can show you what really happened: https://lnkd.in/eTHsF6Pk

Earlier this year, an airstrike and a follow-up mortar strike reportedly hit the location of a wedding in Myanmar. At least 19 people, including women and children, were killed. Read the full report to see how the team at CIR's Myanmar Witness project used OSINT to get closer to the truth: https://lnkd.in/e5yKA2pX #Myanmar #OSINT #opensource

Dubbed Asia’s most powerful storm this year, Typhoon Yagi, left a trail of destruction last week. In Myanmar, more than 200 people have reportedly died, and over 80 are missing due to flooding and mudslides caused by the typhoon. Here are some of the resources that can help you to predict & monitor the situation on the ground: 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗯 ⬛ “Real-time global flood forecasting” 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eSKDGFBf 𝗭𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵’𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲 ⬛ Forecasts through interactive rain, wind, temperature, and pressure maps. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eReXZA8v 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀’ 𝗨𝗡𝗢𝗦𝗔𝗧 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗠𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆) ⬛ AI-based satellite-detected surface waters as observed from Sentinel-1 images. Has not yet been validated in the field. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJASE2Mc

When reports of airstrikes in Khartoum and East Darfur emerged online in August, a number of pro-SAF social media accounts celebrated the incidents, encouraging ethnic violence. Many of these posts claimed that the airstrikes were a legitimate response to RSF shelling elsewhere in the country, and called for the SAF to increase their efforts. CIR’s Sudan Witness identified a wave of social media posts containing misinformation, hate speech, and inflammatory language while monitoring Sudan in August. Read more to understand what damage mis and disinformation surrounding airstrikes can cause to local communities: https://lnkd.in/e8R6AdV5

Listen to Humaira, a Research Analyst at CIR's Afghan Witness project, reflecting on how women are protesting and resisting the Taliban restrictions against women and what changed as opposed to the first Taliban takeover in the 1990s. CIR’s voice memo interviews are intended to give insight into various people and roles at CIR and its projects in a conversational style. This voice memo has been edited for structure.

𝗠𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 save the date 👇 𝟭 - 𝟭𝟱 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 Next month, Myanmar plans to conduct a national census during the ongoing conflict and violence in the country, which has persisted since the military coup in 2021. The census is being framed as preparation for next year's planned election, though some observers have raised concerns about its legitimacy. Meanwhile, an estimated 18.6 million people urgently require humanitarian assistance, including six million children, according to the UN. Sources: https://lnkd.in/emkuqyWD https://lnkd.in/eCuGti-q #WhatshappeninginMyanmar #myanmar

Reporting from Sudan has been difficult due to safety risks to journalists and activists. But fortunately, there is a lot of evidence online. In collaboration with The Guardian, CIR’s Sudan Witness project verified footage in the Western region of Darfur that appears to show Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters torturing prisoners and glorifying burned homes: https://lnkd.in/ewaAVy8P These men are not hiding what they’re doing - they are proudly recording themselves for the world to see. Watch our investigation ‘Meet the men burning down Sudan’ to see the scale of the destruction in the country and the men behind it: https://lnkd.in/dnN2bf9y #Sudan #SudanWitness

When journalism meets OSINT CIR collaborated with DW News to investigate claims in the Ukrainian city of Beryslav of drone attacks targeting civilian vehicles in an attempt to hinder movement near the frontline. Read more to see what tools helped to trace the Russian units responsible: https://lnkd.in/eqXTT2Sn #russiandrones #osint #ukraine

In August, the Taliban published new laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing faces outside their homes. These laws effectively bar female journalists from broadcasting. “Without female journalists, hearing from women in Afghanistan will become increasingly difficult,” writes Zahra Nader, founding editor-in-chief of Zan Times, a women-led, investigative newsroom covering human rights violations in Afghanistan. Growing up with stories of women who lived under Taliban rule in the 1990s, when the group seized power for the second time, Zahra found a way to resist the Taliban from outside the country. She would use words. Read her latest piece for The Globe and Mail where she explains how Zan Times works to find ways for Afghanistan’s female journalists to continue reporting: https://lnkd.in/eHwz44Xq CIR’s Afghan Witness collaborated with Zan Times to create a live portal of arrests, disappearances and killings of women with public roles in Afghanistan. You can explore the map here at map.zantimes.com

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