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How to maintain mental hygiene: OSINT-investigator, volunteer, heroic Ukrainians?

Tips from the Molfar OSINT community on how to maintain mental health and emotional balance under martial law and information overload. The article is written based on the experience of professional investigators, which will be useful for volunteers and Ukrainians who suffer daily from the information invasion in the form of cruel, extremist and emotionally heavy content.

05/12/2022

Fact-checking of the attack on the Russian fascists base: geolocation by photo

Educational material on finding the exact geolocation of the area by analyzing social networks. A real case of the Molfar OSINT community, in which we show step by step how to find the geolocation using a photo from social networks and news resources.

07/11/2022

Fact-checking of the attack on the training ground of Russian soldiers: reverse search for the coordinates

Educational material on local identification using social media analysis. We publish a real case in which a step-by-step way of establishing the location is presented through news reports and photos from social networks.

26/10/2022

How to find a hidden YouTube channel email address

Instructions on how to find an email address if there is only a link to the user's YouTube account.

19/10/2022

60 pseudo-sites and thousands of Russian bots spread Kremlin propaganda. How to detect fake news?

Recently, Meta discovered an extensive network of fake accounts and sites that were spreading Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine. The campaign to spread Kremlin lies was targeted to European countries. This was one of the largest disinformation operations, which was detected and neutralized by Meta.

13/10/2022