Ross Burley
@rwdburley.bsky.social
Co-founder of the Centre for Information Resilience. OSINT, foreign policy, disinfo, Spurs
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory
February 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory
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Proud of the Sudan Witness team at @cen4infores.bsky.social and the work with @nytimes.com to track the commanders in Sudan responsible for some of the horrific events happening in the country. A painful but impactful documentary.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan
Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Proud of the Sudan Witness team at @cen4infores.bsky.social and the work with @nytimes.com to track the commanders in Sudan responsible for some of the horrific events happening in the country. A painful but impactful documentary.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Ever since the shocking events of October 7th last year, the team & I at CIR have been recording, investigating & verifying human rights incidents from Israel, the OPTs & Lebanon. Take a look at our map that visualises the open source data we've collected.
www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...
www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...
Israel-Gaza Conflict Map
The Israel-Gaza Conflict Map is a map of incidents documented by CIR covering the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel and Lebanon since 7 October 2023.
www.info-res.org
December 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Ever since the shocking events of October 7th last year, the team & I at CIR have been recording, investigating & verifying human rights incidents from Israel, the OPTs & Lebanon. Take a look at our map that visualises the open source data we've collected.
www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...
www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...
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As personal and public lives are increasingly played out on the internet and through social media, a new frontier in the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) has emerged.
Exposing and combating online behaviour harmful to women and girls is core to CIR’s mission 🧵👇
Exposing and combating online behaviour harmful to women and girls is core to CIR’s mission 🧵👇
November 25, 2024 at 11:03 AM
As personal and public lives are increasingly played out on the internet and through social media, a new frontier in the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) has emerged.
Exposing and combating online behaviour harmful to women and girls is core to CIR’s mission 🧵👇
Exposing and combating online behaviour harmful to women and girls is core to CIR’s mission 🧵👇
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Old bombs, used in a new way.
Russia’s military developed “glide bombs” specifically for use in Ukraine, with devastating impact.
They are increasing in size and range, and Ukrainian forces are struggling to stop them.
What are #glidebombs and how do they work? 👇(1/2)
Russia’s military developed “glide bombs” specifically for use in Ukraine, with devastating impact.
They are increasing in size and range, and Ukrainian forces are struggling to stop them.
What are #glidebombs and how do they work? 👇(1/2)
November 21, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Old bombs, used in a new way.
Russia’s military developed “glide bombs” specifically for use in Ukraine, with devastating impact.
They are increasing in size and range, and Ukrainian forces are struggling to stop them.
What are #glidebombs and how do they work? 👇(1/2)
Russia’s military developed “glide bombs” specifically for use in Ukraine, with devastating impact.
They are increasing in size and range, and Ukrainian forces are struggling to stop them.
What are #glidebombs and how do they work? 👇(1/2)
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Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
November 19, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
Hello Bluesky!
I’m Ross, and I’m the co-founder of CIR - the Centre for Information Resilience. We expose disinformation, and use open source to verify war crimes and other human rights abuses. Here’s a good example of the stuff we do👇
I’m Ross, and I’m the co-founder of CIR - the Centre for Information Resilience. We expose disinformation, and use open source to verify war crimes and other human rights abuses. Here’s a good example of the stuff we do👇
In the small Ukrainian city of Beryslav, residents say they go out after dark, when the drones can’t see them.
A new documentary from DW, with support from CIR’s #EyesonRussia project, investigates how drones are terrorising civilians in the city and traces the Russian units likely responsible.
A new documentary from DW, with support from CIR’s #EyesonRussia project, investigates how drones are terrorising civilians in the city and traces the Russian units likely responsible.
How Russian drones target civilians in a small Ukrainian city | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Hello Bluesky!
I’m Ross, and I’m the co-founder of CIR - the Centre for Information Resilience. We expose disinformation, and use open source to verify war crimes and other human rights abuses. Here’s a good example of the stuff we do👇
I’m Ross, and I’m the co-founder of CIR - the Centre for Information Resilience. We expose disinformation, and use open source to verify war crimes and other human rights abuses. Here’s a good example of the stuff we do👇