“This is how journalists figure out if all those Ukraine videos are real. Visual forensics allows reporters to pinpoint the location of images emerging from the conflict and verify their authenticity…While some newsrooms have their own teams (The Post has seven people doing this work, and the Times has a team of 17), there’s also a large online community of independent sleuths sharing their findings with one another. Bellingcat, a global investigative corps that’s been a pioneer in this kind of open-source work, particularly in Ukraine, has been helping to verify incidents on a crowdsourced map with the London-based nonprofit Center for Information Resilience…”