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• The motto of this new platform would be ‘Identify, Verify, Amplify’: • Identify issues both overlooked and discoverable online. • Verify all evidence, and never indulge in speculation. • Amplify what we learn, while amplifying the field as a whole.
• That was it: our name and our mission. Belling the cats.
• A correspondent for RT, Sara Firth, resigned in protest at the broadcaster’s falsehoods, saying, ‘Every single day we’re lying and finding sexier ways to do it.’ An RT spokeswoman responded: ‘Sara has declared that she chooses the truth; apparently we have different definitions of truth.’6
• After geolocating the garage image, our next step was to estimate the time of the image, which we did using an app designed for photographers, SunCalc, which measures shadows in pictures. I had not been familiar with the app, so experimented in my garden, taking snapshots at different moments of the day, testing whether SunCalc correctly extrapolat...
• Yet the Buk launcher itself had a notable difference: one missile was gone.