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1. Did a US report really applaud Sisi’s war on terror?

On May 16, a wave of virtually identical stories appeared in Egyptian newspapers, ranging from state-owned flagship Al-Ahram, privately owned Youm7 and the Wafd Party’s newspaper, Al-Wafd, each claiming that US-based think tank The Jamestown Foundation had published a lengthy report on Egypt’s war on terror. According to these stories, the report found that the Muslim Brotherhood was behind terror attacks in Sinai and that the Egyptian military had the support of the Egyptian people and had put Egypt back on the right course. News of this report came as a surprise to The Jamestown Foundation, an organization based in Washington DC that produces publications focusing on terrorism and other global issues.

2. Inside Storyful: Syrian helicopter crash exposes hidden view of Assad’s barrel-bomb campaign

Storyful has a rigorous verification process for establishing and confirming the authenticity of video content from the social web. Last week, journalists Alan O’Riordan and Lobna Hassan examined footage circulated by activists after it was obtained from a Syrian-forces helicopter crew whose aircraft crashed in Idlib province.

3. Verification cartoon of the week: Duty, by Loading Artist

That moment when you break the debunk to your friends.

4. How We Can Use Livestreaming Apps to Promote Justice

Live video takes many of the possibilities of recorded video and accentuates them. It pulls in and engages a distant audience with the visceral experience of what is happening on the ground — and makes it much more tangible because it is “now.” It makes us all, even if we are not in the same physical space, direct witnesses to rights violations. And when live video is tied to your social graph it can engage people who know or care about you already directly in the middle of a dramatic experience in your life.

5. Reported.ly Beta Goes Live

[…] one of the challenges of serving as a “social-first” news startup is that it’s hard for people to get a sense of how our coverage on different news topics builds up over time. Plenty of us love living in the moment on social, but let’s face it — it’s an ephemeral experience. We knew that eventually we’d need some sort of home base to document all the work our team has been doing, so this website beta is our first attempt at doing just that. The new website is set up so you can keep up with our daily coverage or dive deeper into the stories we’ve done on a particular topic.

6. Advanced Geolocation: Translation + Mirroring + Mashups

Ruslan Leviev and his team of investigators recently released an in-depth report on three Russian soldiers who died fighting in Ukraine. Leviev and his team members managed to track down the gravesites of each of these soldiers, all of which belonged to and were still active servicemen in the Russian 16th Separate Spetsnaz Brigade, military unit 54607. One of these soldiers was Timur “Mamai” Mamayusupov, photographed in May next to a distinct APC with shark teeth. This location was assumed to be Luhansk, but only now can this location be confirmed via geolocation.

7. Debunk of the week: Dublin Double Rainbow Debunk

Sadly this one isn’t real — though notice the RTs & favourites of the original tweets vs. the debunk.