Kolina Koltai

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Senor researcher & Trainer @Bellingcat
Social media misinfo expert

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A popular AI undress/nudifying service on Telegram is now offering AI powered geolocations on your 'crush's' images. They are using GeoSpyAi's service. Regardless of how accurate the geolocations are, this is another way to threaten women's safety online.

I had a super fun time talking to Dr. Biagio Palese, Russell Devereaux, and Dr. Amin Khezerlou for the Gateway. Check it out if you wanna hear me babble about misinfo, social media, and weird stuff in between rss.com/podcasts/the...

The Gateway - Staying Informed on Misinformation | RSS.comrss.com For this episode, Amin, Biagio, and Russ are excited to have to speak with Kolina Koltai! Kolina is a senior investigator and trainer at the open-source investigation outlet, Bellingcat. Kolina is an ...

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Last week, I had the absolute honor of attending a 5-day, in-person @bellingcat.com workshop in D.C.,led by @koltai.bsky.social and @michaelsheldon.bsky.social. If you have the chance to take any Bellingcat training you should do so as you will receive some of the best #OSINT training out there!

There are at least 3 different viral AI generated images from tonight's #MetGala featuring Rihanna and 2 from Katy Perry. These have gotten millions of views on just these tweets alone, and counting.

Whew! It was a bit of a whirlwind but very thankful to have been invited to be on a panel and give a talk about AI and misinformation around the upcoming 2024 global elections at Google's Fighting Misinformation Online event.

Every wanted to know how to do the work we do at Bellingcat? It's not too late to sign up for our in-person workshop in DC!

Want to learn Bellingcat research techniques? Learn how we dig into topics using only online sources? We have some public workshops coming up in May, including an in-person five day course in Washington DC. Find the details here: www.bellingcat.com/workshops/ma...

May 6-10, 2024: Five-Day, In-Person Workshop in Washington, DC, USA - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com Register for this workshop here. This workshop is a five-day in-person training that will teach digital investigation techniques and provide extensive guided, hands-on practice. The workshop will run ...

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Our Bellingcat Monitoring Podcast is back, discussing research on the far right. In this first episode, @colborne.bsky.social and @koltai.bsky.social speak to Dr. Kathleen Blee on the roles of culture and emotion on the far right. Listen on your favourite podcast platforms! rss.com/podcasts/bel...

Bellingcat Monitoring Podcast - Episode 1, The Return: Emotions, Culture and White Supremacy in the U.S. | RSS.comrss.com In our first episode of 2024, Bellingcat’s Michael Colborne and Kolina Koltai spoke to Dr. Kathleen Blee. A sociologist at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Blee has spent decades researching far-righ...

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Want to learn digital investigation techniques from our researchers and based in the USA? Join us for a five day hands-on workshop in Washington, DC, on May 6th-10th. There's only 20 seats available, sign up now here: www.bellingcat.com/workshops/ma...

Got to speak with Brenna Smith at the Baltimore Banner about how racist and xenophobic disinformation and narratives are being weaponized in the Key Bridge disaster. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tr...

How racist, anti-immigrant disinformation added to the Key Bridge tragedywww.thebaltimorebanner.com Baltimore has become the latest target of a national far-right campaign spreading thinly veiled racism after a catastrophic event.

If you read anything today, or this week, or this month on the war in Gaza, please let it be this. Israel is using an AI targeting system with very little human oversight, mass casualties, and little verification of hitting their actual targets. Absolutely horrifying www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gazawww.972mag.com The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

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Finding the financial transaction services of an organisation can be important to pinpoint payment pathways. In our latest guide @koltai.bsky.social demonstrates methods to find out how a company is processing payments… www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

How to Get Started: Investigating Payment Gateways Online - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com Investigating the financial transactions of an organisation can reveal details about its connections and funding. Here's a quick guide on how to do it.

The combo of predatory journals, the pressure to publish, and ChatGpt is going to accelerate the destruction of the trustworthiness scientific articles. These authors didn't even edit the AI output and the journal published it. 😭 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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On International Women's Day, we are highlighting one of our most referenced guides. Sexual and Gender-based violence disproportionately affects women but this type of violence can impact anyone. Here's how to take a considered approach in your research. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Recognising Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as an Open Source Researcher - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com Bellingcat examines strategies to approach sexual and gender-based violence content in open source research and investigations.

"Just imagine the expressions on your friends' faces when they receive a personalized Woman's Day card that's a tad on the...nude side" Today, on International Women's Day, some of the biggest NSFW deepfake services are running promo days to celebrate.

Cell phone cameras are also helpful for people who experience visual hallucinations. They can use their phone's camera to verify if what they are seeing is actually happening or not.

Best evidence IMO that UFOs aren't real is that the sightings stopped cold once everyone started carrying cell phones with cameras.

🚨Job alert: @bellingcat.com is hiring an editor to join our team. The position is fully remote (so you can work from anywhere)!

We're looking for an experienced editor to join our team! You'll need to be able to commission, edit and publish major stories and investigations with a strong and critical eye. The role is remote and open to anyone around the world. You can find the details here www.bellingcat.com/editor-posit...

Editor Position Open at Bellingcat - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com We are looking for an experienced editor to join our growing team. An exciting position with lots of responsibility, you will commission, edit and publish major stories and investigations produced by ...

There is going to be no shortage of stories like these. This is a middle school! It is far too cheap and far too easy to make convincing non-consensual deepfake nudes, including making CSAM. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Police open criminal investigation into Beverly Hills middle school AI-nude photos incidentwww.nbcnews.com Reports from a middle school allege that students were using AI tools to create and share fake nude photos of their classmates.

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Have you read @koltai.bsky.social 's latest on non-consensual deepfake generation and the companies profiteering off the practice? The work has led to accounts being disabled on many of the payment providers and bans/investigations introduced by the gaming marketplaces IGV, Steam, Skinsback and G2A.

Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social unpacks how a network of AI Porn sites that make nonconsensual deepfakes have been disguising their sales and misusing financial and online service providers that ban adult content. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/02...

Behind a Secretive Global Network of Non-consensual Deepfake Pornography - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com An online video game marketplace says it has referred user accounts to legal authorities after a Bellingcat investigation found nonconsensual pornographic deepfake tokens were being surreptitiously so...

🚨This one was a doozy to put together! There is this crazy network behind some of the most popular AI deepfake porn sites and we dig into their connections, how they are skirting payment rules and 🕵️‍♀️even uncover some of the people behind it.

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2 things 1) It has been so frustrating to see the way Syrian war footage, esp of kids, is misused in the Gaza conflict. 2) I hated that I had to update the number of journalists who died while covering this war while this article was being written.

NEW: @koltai.bsky.social identifies a trend of footage and images from Syria’s civil war being recycled and misattributed to the current Israel-Hamas conflict. We found deniers of chemical weapon attacks in Syria sharing false claims about Israel and Gaza. www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/12...

Images of Syrian Civil War Take on a Second Life in Gaza Conflict - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com Bellingcat has also identified a trend of footage and images from Syria’s long-running civil war being recycled and misattributed to the current Israel-Hamas conflict.

I gotta respect the hustle

Time to update the meme

You go on one Black Flag binge and suddenly you're in the top 0.5% of listeners.

Another win. Reddit has now taken down the AnyDream subreddit!

This article has everything. ✅Sketchy Tech bros ✅Skirting payment rules ✅AI technology ✅Non-consensual deepfake pornography ✅International incorporation ✅And more! Check out my newest piece with @bellingcat.com below👇

Shortly after we published yesterday's article on AnyDream, Discord shut down their server. Looking at their other modes of communication, it looks like those who posted on the server got their accounts banned, and lurkers just got this warning message below.

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Following the publication of this investigation, the discord server used for the AnyDream application has been shutdown by Discord for violating community guidelines.

In her latest research, @koltai.bsky.social delves deep into the dirty side of AI, exposing an AI Porn company’s tool that’s being used to generate nonconsensual deepfake pornography and alleged CSAM. www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11...

AnyDream: Secretive AI Platform Broke Stripe Rules to Rake in Money from Nonconsensual Pornographic ...www.bellingcat.com A US artificial intelligence company surreptitiously collected money for a service that can create nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes using financial services company Stripe, which bans processing p...

My first time getting coverage in Japan! Spoke with Asahi Shimbun about misinformation going viral about Israel/Gaza. digital.asahi.com/articles/ASR...

偽情報への対抗策「『わからない』でいい」　ベリングキャット研究員：�...digital.asahi.com イスラム組織ハマスとイスラエルの軍事衝突をめぐって、誤情報や偽情報がソーシャルメディア上にあふれています。私たちは、どのようにして情��...

New piece by the team and I, geolocating a neo-Nazi and white supremacist event in my home state of California in the US. Yes, there are neo-Nazis in Los Angeles.

This summer a group of white nationalist groups gathered in Los Angeles for a mixed martial arts tournament. Bellingcat reveals where and why it took place… www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11...

From Pixels to Punches: Geolocating a neo-Nazi and White Nationalist Combat Event in Los Angeles - b...www.bellingcat.com Chapters of an emerging white nationalist network from across the United States participated in a joint combat sports event in the Los Angeles area this August, according to open source evidence geolo...