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🕵️ OSINT Tools for Documenting War Crimes

This is a curated list of open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools to assist with identifying, verifying, and reporting individuals or entities responsible for war crimes, hate speech, and other atrocities. This toolkit is built for transparency, ethics, and justice.

[osint website]

https://osintframework.com/

List of tools hosted on one plateform.

📸 Reverse Image Search

  • Google Images
    Upload or paste an image URL to find visually similar images across the web.

  • Yandex
    Russian search engine known for powerful facial image matching.

  • TinEye
    Finds where an image appears online, useful for checking image origin or edits.

  • RevEye
    Browser extension to reverse-search images across multiple engines.

🧠 Facial Recognition

  • PimEyes
    Face recognition tool that can trace where a face appears online.

  • Social Links
    Advanced OSINT tool for mapping individuals’ online presence.

🎭 Deepfake Detection

  • Deepware Scanner
    Detects deepfake videos using AI analysis.

  • InVID
    Browser plugin for verifying videos, extracting metadata, keyframes, and social data.

  • YouTube DataViewer
    Extracts metadata and upload date from YouTube videos for verification.

🗺️ Geolocation

  • Picarta.ai
    AI-based tool for image geolocation through object and terrain recognition.

  • Google Earth Pro
    Satellite imagery and terrain analysis, great for matching landmarks.

  • SunCalc
    Sun position calculator to confirm timestamps using shadow angles.

  • Sentinel Hub
    Access satellite data from Sentinel satellites for conflict zone analysis.

  • Planet Labs
    High-res satellite images, often updated daily (free access for researchers).

  • SkyWatch
    Satellite data platform for Earth observation and analysis.

  • Geosint
    Open-source geolocation intelligence tool tailored for OSINT investigations and media verification.

🏷️ Metadata & Redaction

  • ExifTool
    Powerful metadata extractor and editor for all media types.

  • Metapicz
    Easy-to-use metadata viewer via drag-and-drop.

  • FFmpeg
    Command-line tool for video/audio manipulation and metadata stripping.

  • Exif Pilot
    Windows tool for viewing and editing image metadata.

🌐 Social Media OSINT

  • Twint
    Twitter scraping tool without API; good for timelines, followers, etc.

  • Instaloader
    Download Instagram photos, stories, metadata, and comments.

  • Check by Meedan
    Collaborative tool for verifying social media content.

  • HateSonar
    Classifies social media content for hate speech.

  • TweetScraper
    Another Twitter scraper without API, ideal for large-scale collection.

  • Tweepy
    Python wrapper for Twitter’s API, useful for custom scraping bots.

  • Osintgram
    Instagram OSINT tool with account interaction mapping.

    OsintTube
    YouTube OSINT tool for extracting metadata, comments, transcripts, and mapping user activity from public videos.

📱 Phone Number OSINT

  • Epieos
    Email/phone lookup with social media footprint detection.

  • PhoneInfoga
    Advanced phone number recon tool using open data and carriers.

  • OSINT Industries
    Intelligence platform offering detailed phone number lookups.

  • Sync.me
    Phone number identity checker for spam and caller ID.

  • WhoCalledMe / NumBuster
    Community-based spam number identifier.

  • Truecaller
    Global caller ID and spam blocking service with public directory.

  • Scamcallfighters
    Investigate scam reports related to specific numbers.

🕰️ Web Archiving & Evidence Storage

Wayback Machine

archive.org

Freeze and Store any web link with all datas at a T time on internet for hate speach comments, crimes videos, images . . .---

🛡️ Privacy & Encryption

  • Tails OS
    Live OS designed for anonymity and secure communication.

  • ProtonVPN
    Swiss-based no-log VPN provider with free tier.

  • VeraCrypt
    Open-source encryption for files, partitions, and full disks.

🤖 Browser Automation

  • Selenium
    Automate browser actions for data extraction and testing.

  • Puppeteer
    Headless Chrome automation useful for stealthy scraping.

🧬 AI-Based Image Matching

📰 News Monitoring

  • GDELT Project
    Global database of events, news, and social indicators in real-time.

  • News API
    Programmatic access to news headlines and full articles.

  • Common Crawl
    Open archive of web data, great for OSINT search at scale.

🗺️ Live Conflict Mapping

  • Liveuamap
    Real-time conflict tracking across multiple countries.

  • MapHub
    Collaborative mapping tool for geolocation and documentation.

🔗 Blockchain Analysis

  • Mempool Explorer
    Visualize Bitcoin mempool and trace unconfirmed transactions.

  • Bitquery
    GraphQL-based blockchain explorer across chains.

  • Chainalysis
    Enterprise-level analytics platform for tracing crypto crimes.

📢 Reporting Resources

  • International Criminal Court (ICC)
    Official portal for submitting war crime evidence and reports.

  • Bellingcat
    Investigative journalism group with guides and submission support.

  • Syrian Archive
    Archive for preserving and verifying media from Syrian conflict zones.

  • SecureDrop
    Whistleblower platform for safely submitting classified or sensitive info.

⚠️ Use these tools responsibly. Always respect privacy laws, obtain proper consent, and focus on public interest investigations related to human rights and international justice.