This week’s guest is Julia Bayer (@bayer_julia)

Julia Bayer is an investigative journalist, innovation manager and trainer at Deutsche Welle. At DW´s Investigative unit she is diving deep online collecting publicly available sources to uncover the (in)visible using OSINT. Before that she researched and verified UGC for (breaking) news at DW´s Social Media Newsroom.

At DW´s Research and Cooperation unit, she is involved in verification projects like Truly Media, InVid and Digger-Deepfake detection. For the DW Academy and other media organisations and NGOs, she travels around the world training journalists in OSINT techniques and digital verification.  

Julia is the founder of @quiztime. It is about little quizzes to train and strengthen your verification and geolocation skills on your own or in a team. Since she started around four years ago a number of journalists and verification enthusiasts have joined. They provide every day new challenges. Come over and verify with us.

Julia’s latest investigation: https://www.dw.com/en/china-convicts-uighurs-in-sham-trials-at-xinjiang-camps/a-53699982

People in this Episode

• Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy)
• Matthias Wilson (@mwOsint)
• Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
• Nixintel (@nixintel)
• Sector035 (@sector035)
• Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)

Links to what we discussed

• Quiztime on Twitter: https://twitter.com/quiztime
• NEW OSINTCurious blog post by Technisette: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/28/when-there-is-no-google-earth-or-street-view-what-can-you-do/
• NEW blog by Matthias Wilson: SOCMINT on foreign platforms: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/10/04/social-media-around-the-world/
• Real satellite tracking website: https://t.co/5DT5Hr8IJG?amp=1
• Updated browser extension by OSINTSupport: https://osint.support/chrome-extensions/2019/09/29/osint-socmint-tooling.html
• Google dorks to access confidential information: https://benjaminstrick.com/dear-x-your-staff-passwords-numbers-and-confidential-data-is-on-google/
• NEW blog post by Nixintel: https://nixintel.info/osint/do-dns-records-prove-that-jim-watkins-is-q/
• NEW blog post by Rae Baker: https://medium.com/@raebaker/using-foca-for-osint-document-metadata-analysis-6745c8d709fa
• Search for emojis: https://www.fastemoji.com/
• NEW update by Telegram: https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1311591571498971136
• 2020 OSINT tools & resources handbook by @i_intelligence: https://i-intelligence.eu/resources/osint-toolkit
• FREE online investigative training course for journalists: https://twitter.com/KnightCenterUT/status/1312508586216497153
• Create your own bookmarks database: https://www.aware-online.com/en/create-your-own-osint-database-with-bookmarks/
• Thread on how to investigate websites: https://twitter.com/aware_online/status/1308312883248467975
• How discover relationships between websites using Maltego: https://www.maltego.com/blog/tracing-internet-relationships-with-maltego/

Self Promotion

• Make sure to check out https://sector035.nl where you can find the weekly OSINT newsletter
• Julia will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming GOSINTCON. More info here: https://gosintcon.de/
• Julia will host a session during the European Investigative Conference at the end of September. There will be also a live Quiztime session at the end of October. Make sure to follow Julia on Twitter https://twitter.de/bayer_julia
• Dutch OSINTguy will be busy this week. Check out his website: https://dutchosintguy.com