from putinbecause russia has been kicked out of organisations like the g8, which is now the g7. and he wants to show that russia is there in the club ultimately. let me bring in benjamin strick. because i said i wanted to look at the role open source investigators are playing in our understanding of the situation and, ben, you re the investigations director at the centre for investigation resistance, which is a not for profit dedicated to exposing disinformation operations by governments. so you re an expert in sifting through satellite imagery, social media, anything digital that s out there hence the term open source. what are your team finding in respect of russia and ukraine? our team, we re not really establishing any findings. what we re really trying to do is identify what s really happening on the ground. because while we are identifying narratives that are coming up, we re not necessarily working to counter our battle against those narratives but ratherjust pick out and teas
by governments. so you re an expert in sifting through satellite imagery, social media, anything digital that s out there hence the term open source. what are your team finding in respect of russia and ukraine? our team, we re not really establishing any findings. what we re really trying to do is identify what s really happening on the ground. because while we are identifying narratives that are coming up, we re not necessarily working to counter or battle against those narratives but ratherjust pick out and tease out the details of what s happening on the ground. as you said, there s so much information that s doing that from locals filming vehicles driving past to aerial traffic to satellite imagery as well. and it s the combination of all those sorts of things that, when cross referenced with the narratives that are coming out in state media and different organisations and representatives, that there is a difference in occurrence of perhaps less intimidation of military build u
necessarily to counter our battle against those narratives but ratherjust pick out and tease out the details of what s happening on the ground. as you said, there s so much information that s doing that from locals filming vehicles driving past to aerial traffic to satellite imagery as well. and it s the combination of all those sorts of things that, when cross referenced with the narratives that are coming out in state media and different organisations and representatives, that there is a difference in occurrence of perhaps less intimidation of military build ups in comparison to what we re really seeing, which is quite heavy intimidation of these build ups as well. before we came on air, i went down a rabbit hole on twitter, looking at your stuff, what you re putting out, and other open source investigators who are tracking, as you say, those military convoys they re geo locating these videos by identifying road signs, bends in the road, and we ll come on to some of those techniq
necessarily to counter our battle against those narratives but ratherjust pick out and tease out the details of what s happening on the ground. as you said, there s so much information that s doing that from locals filming vehicles driving past to aerial traffic to satellite imagery as well. and it s the combination of all those sorts of things that, when cross referenced with the narratives that are coming out in state media and different organisations and representatives, that there is a difference in occurrence of perhaps less intimidation of military build ups in comparison to what we re really seeing, which is quite heavy intimidation of these build ups as well. before we came on air, i went down a rabbit hole on twitter, looking at your stuff, what you re putting out, and other open source investigators who are tracking, as you say, those military convoys they re geo locating these videos by identifying road signs, bends in the road, and we ll come on to some of those techniq