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Where Woodward meets Holmes: OSINT and investigative journalism
Season 1 · Episode 27

Where Woodward meets Holmes: OSINT and investigative journalism

NeedleStack · Authentic8

September 27, 202220m 33s

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Show Notes

The intersection of open-source information, disinformation, social media and journalism has spawned a new breed of investigator.

Meet Brecht Castel, fact-checking journalist and OSINT aficionado. In this episode, Brecht shares his advice on how to be good at both. Learn how his background as a journalist helps him dig deeper, beyond “hashtag OSINT” and get the bigger story. And how his passion for OSINT has led down many interesting paths — from locating one tree in the whole of Africa to explaining why a mosquito with a number on its back is not part of Bill Gates’ plan for world domination (or even a mosquito, for that matter).