The independent investigators tracking Russia's military buildup
TikTok isn't just for dance memes -- it's now being used by amateur investigators to track the Russian military buildup along Ukraine's borders. Among those researchers is the Conflict Intelligence Team, or CIT, a tight-knit collection of investigators based between Russia and Ukraine. CIT practices open-source intelligence, a method of gathering and analyzing information that, as its name suggests, draws on publicly available data like social media posts and satellite imagery.