Bellingcat’s Digital Forensics Tools
This is an up-to-date list of open source verification and investigation tools and methods from Bellingcat.
Verification
If you want to tell a story you have to make sure you got the facts right. Verification is about fact checking, but also about verifying where your content came from. Is your source reliable?
Trust or Trash
A guide to help you think critically about information. The tool leads you through the process in three simple steps. You can dig deeper if you want.
Wolfram Alpha
Find out everything about a subject with this tool. Enter a keyword or select a category and check all the facts.
B.S. Detector
The B.S. Detector is a browser extension that searches all links on a webpage for references to unreliable sources. Through warnings it tells you if the source is reliable and if not why that is.
Visual Verification Guide
Found a photo on the internet? This infographic will help you find out through questions and rates if your photo is safe to use.
Pipl
Search a person on the deep web with Pipl. You’ll find photo’s, websites, socials and so on. Everything there is to find about a person on the internet.
TinEye
TinEye is a reverse image search engine that will tell you where the photo came from originally.
BotOrNot
With this tool you can check if the Twitter account is a bot or not.