Visual Investigations
A list of my favourite pieces that I have worked on during my time as OSINT Producer at NBC News.
Blog Posts & Articles
A list of my favourite pieces that I have written over the years.
Jane’s Intelligence Review (subscribers only | Apr 2020)
Investigators often need to track the digital footprint of threat actors, such as Islamist militants and far-right extremists, across social media and the web. Lorand Bodo presents a methodology for overcoming the challenges.
Jane’s Intelligence Review (subscribers only | Dec 2019)
The encrypted messaging app Telegram has become a vital platform for terrorists, extremists, and criminals seeking to connect and to disseminate content. Jane’s partners with Tech Against Terrorism to provide a guide to interrogating metadata that can be extracted from the platform.
Decentralised terrorism: the next big step for the so-called Islamic State (IS)? (Dec 2018)
What the decentralised web is and why terrorist entities could exploit it to circumvent account removals and takedowns on the world wide web.
Who are the White Pendragons? (Jan 2018)
Using OSINT to examine the digital footprint of a new UK far-right group, The White Pendragons, by exploring the group’s origins and looking at the ways in which extremist and radical groups blend online and in-real-life activities.
Account suspended: Twitter and Extreme Right-Wing Groups in the UK (Dec 2017)
While the enforcement of Twitter’s new rules can be interpreted as a step forward in the campaign to remove hateful content from the platform, it is likely that we will see reactive adaptations in the social media-related and other internet activities of extreme right-wing groups.
Excluded: a sense of non-belonging fuels violent radicalisation in the United Kingdom (Aug 2017)
Based on an interview with a former Salafi-jihadist recruiter, I have examined to what extent the sense of non-belonging leads to violent radicalisation in the UK.