@giancarlofiorella
Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat Assistant Professor | Utrecht University PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto www.giancarlofiorella.com Opinions my own
Screen shot from Grammarly listing "expert suggestions" from Julia Angwin, Craig Silverman, Bruce Schneier and Julie Brill
Grammarly is really cutting a wide swath -- from journalist @craigsilverman.bsky.social to cybersecurity expert @schneier.com to Microsoft chief privacy officer @julie-brill.bsky.social!
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
Reporter: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you're the only person in your government saying this. Why?
Trump: Because I just don't know enough about it.
“Iran has Tomahawk missiles, a fact we disclosed only after a Tomahawk was caught on camera striking a school, in Iran, during a US bombardment consistently of hundreds of Tomahawk missiles”
-if your news org isn’t openly attacking this claim you may as well run Sandy Hook false flag theories too
This experiment of putting the worst people in charge of government should be over.
Someone at the CIA noticed a new numbers station on the shortwave, and the administration is determined to revive fears of an Iranian fifth column illegals.
Come on guys. abcnews.com/US/iran-acti...
I know nothing matters any more but here's the president admitting that he accused Iran of bombing a school full of their own children based on absolutely nothing.
New footage reveals an apparent U.S. or Israeli strike near a boys' school in Abyek, west of Tehran, on Feb. 28. Satellite imagery suggests a comms tower was the intended target, but flying debris killed a child on the playground. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
The widely used satellite imagery provider, Planet Labs, has announced there will now be a two week delay on imagery related to the current conflict in Iran to commercial customers.
OpenAI’s Pentagon deal boils down to one thing: Total blind trust in the integrity of Sam Altman, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump.
theintercept.com/2026/03/08/o...
“It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation,” CENTCOM told The Intercept.
Images published by Iranian state media show remnants of a US Tomahawk missile at a girls’ school in Minab.
It’s not possible to independently verify the provenance of the remnants from this imagery alone. But Bellingcat previously detailed how a Tomahawk missile hit a structure next to the school.
Q: You said you have someone in mind to be the new Iranian leader. Someone internal?
TRUMP: I think the idear of eter -- internal and eternal, come to think of it. But I like the idear of internal because it workssssss well. I think we've proven that so far in Venezuela. We have a woman -- Delcy
Remnants seen in the imagery (left) with reference imagery (right)
We also matched details of the remnants to publicly available imagery of Tomahawk components in the Open Source Munitions Portal (OSMP) @munitionsportal.bsky.social osmp.ngo/model/tomaha...
Trump's assertion here that the Tomahawk is "generic" and that "Iran has some Tomahawks" is absurd and a lie.
The only party to this conflict that operates the Tomahawk is the United States.
Read our analysis into the Tomahawk strike in Minab here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Trump: "You daughter, she has to be of age. Like above 6 years old."
"When it comes to Op. Southern Spear, the legal loopholes Ottawa hides behind may not be enough to wash the blood off our hands."
My latest: a long-form context and analysis piece.
substack.com/@thestateoft...
Bellingcat analysis makes a strong case that a US tomahawk hit that girl's school in Iran, contrary to U.S. government claims
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
I spoke to CTV news about our @bellingcat.com analysis showing that a US Tomahawk missile struck the IRGC base near the Minab girls' elementary school on February 28, adding to evidence that the US was responsible for the deadly attack on the school.
youtu.be/Vi6VIDlyiRc?...
There are nearly 30 verified images of Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) in the OSMP archive, including from Syria, the U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen last year, and the ongoing Iran war.
See them all here: osmp.ngo/model/tomaha...
bsky.app/profile/bell...
Bellingcat researcher and weapons expert Trevor Ball ( @easybakeovensz.bsky.social ) will be talking to our Discord Server on Thursday about identifying key munitions being used in the Iran-US-Israel war. Join us live at 11am EDT: discord.gg/bellingcat?e...
We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7
Post from Drop Site News claiming Bellingcat geolocation confirms U.S. Tomahawk missiles struck a girls’ primary school in southern Iran, killing around 180 people, most of them children, with an embedded tweet describing footage of the strike.
Further confirmation of what Trump keeps denying and what Hegseth won't admit to. It was the U.S. that struck that girls’ school.
A real doctor hid behind a pseudonym to flood social media with AI-generated health slop — and sell books off the back of it.
He accumulated tens of millions of views & millions of followers and sold books like "Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally.” New investigation:
indicator.media/p/a-real-doc...
Human Rights Watch: The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor
www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
Israeli Air Force images posted on March 3 show a bomb not previously seen in Israeli service, reportedly from jets involved in strikes on Iran. Experts say the bombs appear to have an incendiary component and may be meant to destroy chemical or biological agents.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
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Over the weekend, Trump told reporters that Iran was responsible for the attack on the girls' school.
This analysis makes that assertion very difficult to believe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mNT...
The Washington Posts' Visual Forensics Team also examined the video and came to the same conclusion: that the base was hit by a US Tomahawk missile.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
NPR's analysis also comes to the same conclusion: that the site was attacked by the United States military with a Tomahawk.
Their analysis included comment from Jeffrey Lewis, a conflict expert, who also pointed out that the missile was unlike any Iranian weapon.
www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n...
