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Jack Sapoch

@JackSapoch

Borders, osint, & digital investigations | working @LHreports, sometimes more; past research @ForensicArchi

Katılım Ağustos 2020
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Jack Sapoch
Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
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
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Benjamin Strick
Benjamin Strick@BenDoBrown·
Fascinating application of NASA's free night lights data to detect light emissions linked to potential construction along the US/Mexico border. Nice one @JackSapoch, and glad to see the DarkLight Viewer was helpful 🤓
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Recent border wall construction in southern Arizona is visible not only in daytime satellite imagery, but also at night I made this timelapse w/ NASA Black Marble nighttime lights data, showing light signatures along the border next to Coronado National Forest b/w Jan + Mar 2026

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Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
Anyways, this observation originally came onto my radar while playing around with @BenDoBrown's great Darklight Viewer tool in GEE, which makes it easy to explore changes nighttime satellite data. Definitely worth checking out if you're interested in these methods!
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Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
Recent border wall construction in southern Arizona is visible not only in daytime satellite imagery, but also at night I made this timelapse w/ NASA Black Marble nighttime lights data, showing light signatures along the border next to Coronado National Forest b/w Jan + Mar 2026
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Border Forensics
Border Forensics@BorderForensic·
Today, Border Forensics together with @SociodigFutures launched a new investigation on the #UK's "stop the boats" policy and that is has in fact led to an increase in deaths. Things being are as they are we cannot post here but follow us on bsky.app/profile/border…
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Ollie Ballinger
Ollie Ballinger@oballinger·
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…
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Investigative Reporters & Editors
Investigative Reporters & Editors@IRE_NICAR·
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
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Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
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
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Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
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…
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We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
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
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Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
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.
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Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
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.
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Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour@amanpour·
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…
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Jack Sapoch@JackSapoch·
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
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