Avery Schmitz

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Avery Schmitz

@avery__schmitz

Open-source reporting @CNN | Views my own. [email protected]

Atlanta, GA Katılım Temmuz 2015

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Avery Schmitz@avery__schmitz·1 Eki

NEW: We spent 6 months digging into the cartel networks recruiting Americans as smugglers Uncovering hundreds of recruitment posts and speaking with cartel recruiters + law enforcement about their tactics With Norma Galeana, @David_Culver, and @evelio cnn.com/2025/09/29/ame…

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@ChrisOsieck Oh gosh...

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Chris Osieck@ChrisOsieck·1d

@avery__schmitz Haha, I went outside and even fell asleep there while sitting on a bench.

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Chris Osieck@ChrisOsieck·1d

Over the past 3 wks, I’ve been working around the clock with barely any rest. I rarely feel exhaustion when I’m focused, until it catches up with me and I crash, like today, falling asleep several times. Colleagues and friends often have to be quite stern with me to take a break.

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Chris Osieck@ChrisOsieck·3d

Using interviews, satellite imagery and atmospheric modelling, we reconstructed how smoke from strikes on oil infrastructure spread across Tehran. The plume extended across much of the city. Investigation by @weatherwar, @ntabrizy, @wammezz and myself. newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-…

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Benjamin Strick@BenDoBrown·4d

Loving this newsletter that tracks the public GitHub repos of news organisations looking at tools, notebooks, experiments and datasets. Link: openjournalism.news

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Chris Osieck@ChrisOsieck·6d

Told @guardian that for those who have lost loved ones, accountability risks being overshadowed by misinformation, suspicion and doubt. Imagine losing a child and then seeing AI used online to claim the event never happened. theguardian.com/global-develop…

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Ollie Ballinger@oballinger·16 Mar

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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Avery Schmitz@avery__schmitz·12 Mar

Footage shows a plume of smoke rising in the direction of Tamnine al-Tahta in the Bekka Valley POV: 33.899373, 36.029845 for @GeoConfirmed

لبنان اليوم@lobnanlyawm

سلسلة غارات على البقاع طالت مناطق عدّة منها تمنين والمنطقة الواقعة بين سهل الناصرية وسرعين وعلي النهري whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va…

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Bilawal Sidhu@bilawalsidhu·12 Mar

Everything is sensor

Yohan@yohaniddawela

Tracking unregistered dark ships is notoriously difficult and expensive. But a new automated system uses existing underwater internet cables to passively detect them. Here's the breakdown:

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Avery Schmitz@avery__schmitz·11 Mar

This is incredibly cool

Yohan@yohaniddawela

Tracking unregistered dark ships is notoriously difficult and expensive. But a new automated system uses existing underwater internet cables to passively detect them. Here's the breakdown:

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Brenna T. Smith@brenna__smith·8 Mar

For the last year, the Trump administration claimed that immigration officers have been under attack. Vehicle rammings. Bitten fingers. All signs of a rampant uptick in assaults against federal officers. The government has labeled alleged perpetrators on X as "domestic terrorists" and "extremists." But, who are they? Citizens — for the most part. Yet none have been convicted at trial. Read our latest story to learn how the Department of Homeland Security, created to protect Americans, has turned its force against them. 👇 wsj.com/us-news/immigr… cc @HannaCritch @emmatscott @bellecushing @kdombsadof

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Ioan Grillo@ioangrillo·9 Mar

Psyched to make my debut in the New Yorker with this profile of the bloody life and (grim) legacy of El Mencho "He was ruthless taking over business” Chicago cocaine king Margarito Flores says. His corrido goes: “They say I'm very violent, It’s true, why should I lie about it?”

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Trevor Ball@Easybakeovensz·8 Mar

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed.

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Chris Osieck@ChrisOsieck·8 Mar

A review of open-source evidence and satellite imagery, including expert consultation, by @ntabrizy and me shows the March 5 strike destroyed a first responders’ outpost in Zibashahr Park, leaving a nearby military site about 200 meters away untouched. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/airs…

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Avery Schmitz@avery__schmitz·5 Mar

@maxsaltman @GeoConfirmed Another angle shared by @Faytuks, geolocated at 26.096521, 50.595559 @GeoConfirmed x.com/Faytuks/status…

Faytuks News@Faytuks

More footage from Bahrain's Petroleum Company Refinery following Iranian ballistic missile attack

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Avery Schmitz@avery__schmitz·5 Mar

Footage shows smoke rising over oil infrastructure in Bahrain Geo with @maxsaltman to eastern Bahrain, coords at 26.109426, 50.635369 @GeoConfirmed

MenchOsint@MenchOsint

Another angle

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Gianluca Mezzofiore@GianlucaMezzo·4 Mar

CNN Investigates: How Iran strikes have damaged US military sites - w/@ThomasBordeaux7 @tamaraqiblawi Oscar Featherstone @ArvanitidisCNN cnn.com/2026/03/03/wor…

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Joe@joedyke·4 Mar

A few weeks ago, the US released its copy of the Iranian Shahed 'drone' - the Lucas. This week the US military used it for the first time, and we just added our first remnants to our Iran War munitions collection page

Open Source Munitions Portal@MunitionsPortal

🟥The OSMP's Iran War collection page has been updated with additional munition images: -American-made LUCAS OWA UAV in Iraq -Arrow 2 surface-to-air missile in Syria -Patriot PAC-3 CRI surface-to-air missile in the UAE -MGM-140 ATACMS ballistic missile osmp.ngo/collection/the…

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Chris Osieck@ChrisOsieck·4 Mar

I plotted the location of the Minab school (green dot) onto the map shared by the U.S. military, for those interested.

Nilo Tabrizy@ntabrizy

Genuine question for the reporters that were in the room — there’s an icon near Minab. Did the US confirm they struck the school?

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Avery Schmitz@avery__schmitz·3 Mar

@Vahid Smoke rising in western Tehran @GeoConfirmed Coords at 35.760562, 51.155198

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Vahid Online@Vahid·3 Mar

حجم عظیم دود سیاه و آتش‌سوزی ویدیوی دریافتی با شرح: پایین‌تر از ایستگاه مترو وردآورد در غرب #تهران #Iran #Tehran

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Vahid Online@Vahid·3 Mar

حجم عظیم دود سیاه و آتش‌سوزی عکس دریافتی با شرح: پایین‌تر از ایستگاه مترو وردآورد در غرب #تهران #Iran #Tehran

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Benjamin Strick@BenDoBrown·3 Mar

I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth. Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇

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@ChrisOsieck @weatherwar @ntabrizy @wammezz @guardian @GeoConfirmed @HannaCritch @emmatscott