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The Public Tech Media Lab hosts a boot camp training for open-source investigation techniques. by Aaron R. Conklin June 8, 2026 Back in 2017, Mexico City was devastated by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that leveled parts of the city and beyond, killing nearly 400 people and injuring more than 6,000. For Gisella Peréz de Acha, who was living there …
Call for Papers The Routledge Handbook of Open Source Investigations Open source investigations (OSINV) leverage the widespread availability of natively digital or digitized data to build narratives about “what actually happened” that rely on source and methodological transparency and replicability to convince readers. Given their close ties to the digital subcultures that emerged on the …
Would you like to get familiar with open-source investigations or refresh your knowledge of the latest OSINT tools and techniques? At Factchequeado, in partnership with the Public Tech Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, we will offer an intensive OSINT course for journalists, led by Guillén Torres Sepúlveda, an open-source investigations specialist. It will be offered in Spanish …