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Coming — identifying narratives that are coming up we are not necessarily to counter our battle _ necessarily to counter our battle narratives but rather pick — battle narratives but rather pick out _ battle narratives but rather pick out and tease out the details _ pick out and tease out the details of what's happening on the ground. as you said, there's_ the ground. as you said, there's so much information that— there's so much information that is— there's so much information that is doing that from locals, vehicles — that is doing that from locals, vehicles driving past, aerial tr...

Every month or every few months so that we could really see what was happening. but the cost of satellite imagery can absolutely be a barrier where that public data doesn't already exist. alexa, you're the executive director of the human rights centre, berkeley school of law, which is a giveaway that you talked about in terms of bringing people to justice. is having a global news outlet using your techniques more effective than an ngo? the power of journalism, in other words? i actually think they're very complementary. l almost as if they are links in a chain. - if you look at what these - in...

I actually think they're very complementary. l almost as if they are links in a chain. - if you look at what these investigative reporters. are doing, they're both consumers of digital. open source information. but they're also putting a lot of closed source information| out into public spaces - where it can then become leads for legal investigators to know who they should be talking - to to get the testimonial evidence, what physicall evidence may actually exist. for example, if they got over a whatsapp communication l a video or a photograph of where an attack- has taken place. ultimately, i...

To identify how the chinese government was building a massive infrastructure to detain muslims. allison, i mentioned how open—source investigators are often amateur — they're certainly not all trained journalist. and your dayjob is in fact as an architect. and here you are winning a pulitzer. yeah, i mean, i'm trained as an architect and i worked in commercial practice for a number of years but, in fact, my work has been moving away from construction and building for quite some time. i would say for the past four or five years, in fact. so this sort of work is now in fact my dayjob. fantas...

About it is when i put something out under my name, most people won't believe it. but because i'm transparent and most of us are transparent they can dig through and see what ourfindings are. that's the best thing about a lot of this that we're sitting online. someone might post a video imposed a location but cross—referencing and identifying that information with trees, signs — a mcdonald's sign in the background for instance — might actually reveal that that information is true. and that's all were able to use those tangible facts to cross reference and improve what's actually there on...