Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Developers like the Bellingcat Investigative Tech Team offer plenty of amazing publicly available research tools, such as applications you can use to analyze TikTok hashtags, or connect Telegram accounts to phone numbers. These resources can be very useful for journalists and non-technical researchers but might require some technical skills to access. This series aims to introduce you to some of the basics, starting off with an introduction to the command line in Windows.

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GitHub: github.com/bellingcat

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