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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

Please take some time to watch our investigation if a massacre in Ethiopia. (Warning - strong graphic content)

Looking for clues in video of forgotten massacre

As a truce is agreed in Ethiopia's bitter civil war, we investigate a massacre caught on video.

www.bbc.co.uk

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BBC investigates the shooting of Armenia POW's on the border of #armenia and #azerbaijan

Massacre on the border: Could allegations of an Azerbaijani war crime in September derail Karabakh...

Additional reporting by Paul Myers.

bbcrussian.substack.com

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War crime investigation from the recent conflict on the #Armenia #Azerbaijan border. Thanks to all who helped with the research. Deeply appreciated.

Кто убил армянских военнопленных и как это повлияет на мирные переговоры между Баку и Ереваном?...

В сентябре азербайджанские военные застрелили восьмерых невооруженных армянских военнослужащих, утверждает Ереван. Подробности трагедии выяснили журналисты Би-би-си, расследовательская группа...

www.bbc.com

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@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

BBC Verify is not just about verification. It’s also about investigation, OSINT, data journalism & debunking disinformation. It’s a team of experts in various disciplines & subject specialties. We collaborate with journalists and teams across the corporation & across the world.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Google offers a simple way to find account holders and user names on twitter. Just search for intitle:name site: -inurl:search -inurl:hashtag -inurl:status - of course "name" should be the target's user name, real or company name. There is no space after -

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

So if #imlie is gonna time leap 20 years into the future, it will be set in the year 2042, with robots and hover cars? Nope.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

OSINT tool developers, please remember that most end users are not developers, not techies, just ordinary people doing detective work online. They aren’t gonna want to faff around compiling scripts and running python for stuff downloaded from GitHub. TLDR? Build a web interface!!

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@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

Okay, I can talk about this now. We are BBC Verify.

BBC News puts transparency at its heart with BBC Verify

BBC Verify will be seen on screen and online in the coming weeks

www.bbc.co.uk

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@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

Many are asking why our investigation of a war crime on the border of #Armenia and #Azerbaijan is in Russian rather than English. The reason is that the article was written & published by @bbcrussian service. There are plans to publish in English. 🤞

Кто убил армянских военнопленных и как это повлияет на мирные переговоры между Баку и Ереваном?...

В сентябре азербайджанские военные застрелили восьмерых невооруженных армянских военнослужащих, утверждает Ереван. Подробности трагедии выяснили журналисты Би-би-си, расследовательская группа...

www.bbc.com

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@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

@SerialActivists @StarPlus Leaps are a sign of a desperate, dying programme. Like bringing back an old favourite and filming for a week in Thailand.

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@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

@Shayan86 @realstewpeters Is there ANYTHING you don’t know Shayan? :))) Amazing.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

Thanks to @technisette for an AWESOME collection of OSINT tools, search engines, databases and links to tutorials. Great work.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

You can bring back some of Google Image's lost functions by adding codes into the search result web address. To search for faces add &tbs=itp:face To search for animation add &tbs=itp:animated To add a date range add (for example) &tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1/14/2010,cd_max:6/25/2011

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@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Sitting through an hour of #isspyaarkokyanaamdoon with no subtitles. Okay 95% of that hour is adverts for travel agents in Southall and dramatic closeups with no dialogue, but please @StarPlus sort it out! We can’t all speak Hindi.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

@IamRitupriya @samrin_s @SerialActivists @StarPlus So many of my favourites have been killed by SP. Rishton, Saathiya, Mere Agne Mein, Meri Durga. There seems to be no rhyme or reason most of the time. It erodes confidence, in the end. You can’t get emotionally attached if you think they are gonna kill it any day cos of the trps

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@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

My new list of #osint links is now up!

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@PaulMyersBBC

3 years

@juni2018 @farzanax__ Can someone please, please tell me why Shagun is living in that house?

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@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

@LeGrove And an eight-and-a-half year contract

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

I don't know who wrote this, but here's an excellent, in-depth article on how to construct FB Graph searches

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

Latest draft of possible @Facebook Graph combination searches - e.g. people who live in Rome & like pizza, pilots that work for Lufthansa. These searches use keywords rather than FB ID codes. Religious & political views not included as they can't be combined in a search.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

I just realised I’ve been training OSINT for 20 years! Over that time the biggest challenges have been 1)finding information 2)verifying it 3)protecting stories & sources. The research landscape keeps changing. New opportunities & new problems, but always exciting new solutions.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

Did you know that you can now search Companies House by location? Just add location: followed by the place into your search. Use quotation marks for phrases. For example, "Donald Trump" location:"New York"

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

@LeGrove Now if they can just make the cannon blue, face it right way and darken the yellow…

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

8 months

Ben Strick @BenDoBrown on how to spot AI generated images

AI-Generated Fakes: How to spot them, how they're made and how they...

Welcome to this deep dive into the world of AI-generated images - a realm where technology blurs the lines between reality and fabrication.In this video, I u...

www.youtube.com

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 months

New verification link on BBC Stories

Transparency tool launched by BBC Verify

BBC Verify has introduced a new feature to show audiences how we know what we know.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

Great advice from @mariannaspring Israel-Gaza war: How to spot disinformation on social media

Israel-Gaza war: How to spot fake news online

The BBC's Marianna Spring shares tips to help you spot what's real and what's fake on your timeline.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

9 years

Wow - an amazing Reverse Image metasearch (multiple sources) offered by - find where photos appear online - love it!

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

In an era when social media is being used to promote extremism and undermine democracy, it’s heartening to see campaigns like #saverahaf and campaigners like @monaeltahawy using it to save lives and promote #humanrights

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

“Courage - Journalism is not a Crime” - an excellent documentary on the dangers faced by investigative journalists and the importance of the profession:

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

@xNeelambari @narayanishastri The ending seems totally seamless and so natural. Not rushed. The story wasnt compromised at all. This professionalism totally sums up the class of everything & everyone involved. I feel sure they will go on to more greatness in the future. Well done all at #RishtonKaChakravyuh

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

This month just keeps getting worse. First Facebook callously ditch Graph. Then we lose inteltechniques tools. Then the free version of pipl goes. And now this essential tool for finding witnesses is going. What next? Is Google gonna ban advanced search?

Twitter removes support for precise geotagging because no one uses it

But it will remain available for photographs

www.theverge.com

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

“Brothers in search” with @henkvaness at #gijc23

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@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

Using OSINT to locate Prigorzhin meeting

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Thanks to all who attended my @gijn webinar and left such amazing feedback. I really enjoyed it and have agreed to do a repeat performance for those that couldn’t attend. Thanks to Eunice, @AnneCKoch10 , @KaplanDave and all at @GIJN

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

@arseblog Well it's a good job he wasn't interviewing Country Joe McDonald

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@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

@Arsenal @LacazetteAlex @BukayoSaka87 @kierantierney1 @emilesmithrowe For me it’s @lacazettealex who has made a personal comeback, inspired the team’s comeback and scored some important goals. It gives us all hope.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

Tweetbeaver is a simple, amazing Twitter account research tool.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

An interim update to my Facebook Graph search commands list, with advice on using workarounds like the mighty Searchbook by @s0wdust

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

3 years

Are the #imlie writers gonna drag this wedding on to 2023?

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

3 years

If it was 5 years ago, I'd be researching this war on Facebook. If it was 15 years ago, I'd be researching this war on MySpace. If it was 25 years ago, I'd be researching this war on USENET. It's today, so I'm researching it on Twitter, Telegram and Tiktok (and others of course).

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

Sorry @Google , but your captcha is relentless. Yes, I’m using a VPN. That’s quite normal these days. Why do I have to do a million tests before you let me search? This one was particularly ridiculous. And you still didn’t let me in.

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@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

@Shayan86 I once had a guy at a journalism conference tell me that 911 was a false flag op set up by the West. I told him I had some secret intel about it and pulled him into a corner. After nervously looking around, I whispered in his ear “Elvis did it”. Sometimes only ridicule will do.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

A list of my favourite research & investigation sites and links to study material can be seen on my personal website

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

Free historical whois info available from and

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Interesting - a car license plate spotting website!

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Facebook search tip: If the filters don't show up on any of the tabs (e.g. People), change your interface language settings to English(US). That immediately cured the problem for me. Now I can add company, town, university & friends into the search.

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@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

#WHOIS is dead. @icann just seemed to lack the will to fight for it. Privacy won. But trolls, scammers, dodgy companies, criminals & extremists also won. Transparency, accountability, investigation, due diligence, #osint & journalism all lost. A sad day IMHO. Find another way!

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Why is Holland so hot on OSINT?

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

What happened to the old Trump @POTUS tweets? They're now @POTUS45 . How did I find this? Before @POTUS switched to Biden, I used @tweet_beaver to find the Trump POTUS Twitter ID number. When it switched over, I used @tweet_beaver to look up the current username for the old ID.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

are developing an interesting-looking social media search: +

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

People are working on solutions to searching Facebook. Here’s a great new tool that finds people, posts, pages etc:

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Google image tools stopped offering “Face” as a type of image. However, you can bring it back as an option by going into Google Image settings and then to advanced search for images.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

3 years

@theJeremyVine The longer you keep these people on the phone, the less people they can scam.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

3 years

@Shayan86 @wolfblitzer I love this so much

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

#RishtonKaChakravyuh seems wide open for a second season. Or maybe a movie adaptation.

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@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

It's always worth checking out an Instagram account on the mobile app. If the user has switched to a "business account" the app will often display their email address, phone number or location. This information is not available via the web version of Instagram.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

9 months

Before I forget, is a really useful, simple to use tool that takes a technical look at a webaddress,

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@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Another article on how @facebook restricting access to #graphsearch is wrecking our ability to investigate war crimes, corruption, violent extremism, people trafficking. Facebook PLEASE RECONSIDER!

Facebook Turned Off Features Used To Catch War Criminals, Child Predators, And Other Bad Actors

The changes by Facebook are “a potential disaster for the human rights and war crimes community.”

www.buzzfeednews.com

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

A good article on how hate sites are hosted, the layers and services involved in protecting them and how big companies are finally deplatforming them.

8chan's new internet host was kicked off its own host just hours later | TechCrunch

The bottom-feeding forum 8chan, which grew popular by embracing fringe hateful internet cultures, is having trouble staying online. After Cloudflare dropped its protection of the site yesterday,...

techcrunch.com

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Sadly @facebook graph search seems to be down. I hope this is just temporary. Does anyone know? @fbplatform @fb_engineering

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

@arseblog Xhaka giveth. Xhaka taketh away.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Rocketreach is a really good people research tool that finds people connected to a company. It can be searched via Google like this:

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

Amazing Twitter/bot analysis tools from OSOME

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

A lovely collection of free tech #osint tools on this site, but I especially love the subdomain finder:

Find DNS Host Records | Subdomain Finder | HackerTarget.com

Online tool to enumerate subdomains of a domain. Find host records for a domain during the discovery phase of a security assessment or penetration test.

hackertarget.com

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

@Apple This will be about the new Teasmade

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@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

@EliotHiggins

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@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

5 things that suck about @instagram 1) No iPad version 2) No keyword search 3) No search by multiple hashtags (this is really, REALLY dysfunctional) 4) No search by geo-coordinates 5) Can't save images. But really, not being able to search with multiple hashtags is the suckiest.

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@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

The importance of Time in the verification process. This photo is not from the September 2019 climate strike

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

3 years

I've just been pointed to . I've been teaching "searching by username" for years. It's useful to find accounts when a real name is too common. There are a few other sites that do this, but it's def worth checking out, as it draws on some interesting sources

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@PaulMyersBBC

10 months

Chuffed to bits with my top, top, top, top world class (well, not world class) Ian @Fiveankles socks which arrived today. The first competition I’ve ever won. Thank you @Exploding_Heads

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

8 years

Twitter handles are easily changed, but Twitter IDs are constant. Find them with this tool & keep track of accounts

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

is a fake face generator. A little bit ghoulish in principal. In practice, useful for anyone wanting a fake profile pic. It won't generate a series of similar pics, so that can hinder anyone wishing to be truly convincing with their fake profiles.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

It strikes me that successful #OSINT is a combination of tools, genius, help & luck. By “genius” I mean the inspiration you have along the way. Other people’s genius can help you. Luck is a minor factor. Genius creates much of the luck. Without the tools & help, genius is stuck.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

So lovely to see the formidable Rupal Patel back in action in #YehRishteyHaiPyaarKe - I kind of tuned out of #starplus because they kept cancelling my favourite shows, but I have soft place in my heart for the actors from #saathnibhaanasathiya & #MereAngneMein

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

Great news - the Wayback Machine is saving youtube pages complete with videos. Sadly this isn't the case for every YT page, but worth a look

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

Twitter has an amazing, dynamic way of finding conspiracy-addled, dimwitted, deluded knobheads. You just have to search for a hashtag followed immediately with the word FALSEFLAG. Works like a dream. Well...more of a surreal nightmare.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

A useful article on verification. How old is a webpage?

Find the Date When a Web Page was First Published on the Internet - Digital Inspiration

How old is a web page? Find the publication date of any webpage on the Internet with a simple Google trick.

www.labnol.org

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

If a domain has been registered via @GoDaddy you may still be able to get its whois domain registration details at this address:

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

8 years

My list of essential @Facebook Graph search commands & syntax: Have I missed anything important? #facebookgraph

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

Easily the best collection of ingenious OSINT tools Thank you Michael Bazzell @IntelTechniques

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

@ruskin147 @YvetteCooperMP There’s only one sort of chip I want in me 🍟

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

This site is great for Reverse IP - seeing what else is stored on a server besides the website you investigate:

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@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

I just found out that Windows 10 has a free screen video recording tool. Just hit the Windows key + G

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

7 years

@anamkha98711563 @ankitsiwach16 @ChangeOrg_India @StarPlus @BhupinderPSingh #RishtonKaChakravyuh epitomised Nayi Soch. It broke away frm stupid story lines, around-the-room reaction shots, religious miracles, weak men, stultifying village morality & the same old saas/bahu schtick. It gave us convincing stories & acting with professional production values

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

3 years

Every time I watch #Imlie she’s getting married. In fact, every time I watch anything on Utsav someone is getting married. Or kidnapped.

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@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

@EliotHiggins I’m tempted to run some of them through biometric search and comparison sites.

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@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

Amazing & super important work by @HarrietAgerholm & team. Anyone trying find a dentist to accept them as an NHS patient will relate to this. Private dental treatment is prohibitively expensive for many people. They are left with 2 choices: debt or decay.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

10 months

I always remember Tony Blair’s rather threatening looking Christmas Card. “Do you want some?”

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@PaulMyersBBC

8 years

You can now search the Wayback Machine. It's in Beta & incomplete, but fantastic news! h/t Margot & Jan Gunnar. See:

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@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

I am compiling a list of brilliant links for journalists and investigators. What have been your top 3 #OSINT tools, this year?

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@PaulMyersBBC

2 years

@Exploding_Heads Love to the family

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

4 years

Bashing journalists is a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of corruption, paranoia and tyranny. A good leader has nothing to fear from a free press.

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@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

@trbrtc @EliotHiggins OSINT adapts and changes. The battle moves elsewhere. Facebook used to mean everything. Hell, USENET used to mean something! I’m already thinking of Twitter in the past tense. The stories we need to look at will be elsewhere, as he slowly, blithely breaks the platform he bought.

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@PaulMyersBBC

1 year

I’ll draw another analogy. Imagine you are in a band and spent a year recording an album. Would you only release it on cassette tapes? No. Because your audience want it on streaming services or available as a download or perhaps vinyl.

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

Journalism in not a crime. #ijasia18

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Paul Myers

@PaulMyersBBC

6 years

The two main ways to find people who "like" something on Facebook. Method 1 - by page ID number, e.g. people who like the FC Barcelona page: or Method 2, by keyword - e.g. people who any page with the word Barcelona in its name:

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@PaulMyersBBC

5 years

@arnavkhushipr @StarPlus @hotstartweets @hotstarUK @hotstar_helps I think so

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@PaulMyersBBC