Jack Sapoch

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Private satellite imaging companies are restricting access to imagery over Iran, making it difficult to verify destruction caused by U.S./Israeli strikes. I developed a method to detect building damage in open source radar imagery, now peer reviewed: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

IRE calls for the immediate release of Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias and Univision 42 Nashville, who was taken into custody while in a marked news vehicle, according to reports. Detaining journalists for doing their jobs is a direct threat to press freedom and the First Amendment. We stand with Rodríguez and all reporters working to hold power accountable. Read the rest of our statement: bit.ly/4sto4Mh

In an IDF TikTok published following the last round of strikes on Iran, members of the "After Effects" cell within the IDF Spokesperson's Unit Post Production wing soldiers described working weeks prior to strikes under “prime-minister-level secrecy” to prepare visuals

The animation centers on a few buildings (implied targets) displayed as point geometry evocative of LiDAR data The extent to which this is a generated effect vs data derived geometry is unclear, but past work on IDF animations suggests the former x.com/JackSapoch/sta…

Amidst strikes on Iran by the US and Israel today, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit released a pre-made 3D animation of strike targets in Kermanshah, Iran

Three years ago:

This investigation was a collaboration with @MotherJones, @nashvillebanner, @NC5, Nashville Noticias, and @psr_memphis You can find links to all the publications as well as our methodology write-up here: lighthousereports.com/methodology/ho…

By linking federal detention data to traffic stops, we followed people from roadside encounters through ICE custody and onto deportation flights. We found 75% of those detained had no criminal record.

Last May, Tennessee Highway Patrol joined ICE on the streets of Nashville. We @LHreports + partners mapped the traffic stops and used 1M+ ICE records, dashcam video, and court files to show how supposed routine encounters became deportations.

A @CNN investigation has uncovered horrific details about atrocities in Sudan, exposing ethnically targeted killings at the hands of the Sudanese Armed Forces and its allies. Worth reading in full: edition.cnn.com/interactive/20…

I’m in Kuala Lumpur this week for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference #GIJC2025 If you’re here + want to talk visual investigations, open source methods, remote sensing, etc. def feel free to reach out! Super happy to meet potential collaborators/fellow practitioners

@SamDoak5 @HRL_YaleSPH @Cen4infoRes Location E - Road to Garni Another video posted appears to show elements of this same group having progressed approx. 3 km NW on the dirt road to Garni. At least one set of persons seen in the video matches a group seen in a previous location 13.7316, 25.2380

@SamDoak5 @HRL_YaleSPH Location D - RSF collection point 2 @Cen4infoRes has published several geolocations from this site. Clips were filmed around here: 13.7103123, 25.2572195 Across various clips, persons can again be spotted in matching clothing to previous vids

THREAD: Last week we @LHReports w/ @SkyNews + @sudanwarmonitor published an investigation into RSF actions against escapees from Al Fashir Much of the open-source material we analyzed didn’t make it into the publications + many original posts have since been since scrubbed