Christiaan Triebert

Christiaan Triebert

@trbrtc.bsky.social

Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.

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Logan Williams
@obtusatum.bsky.social

It seems that the European Union's restriction on up-to-date Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery has expanded to include Gaza and the Red Sea. This may have happened a while ago — the EC's corrigendum on 2026/1716 removes transparency from Copernicus censorship. Does anyone have more info/observations?

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John Ismay
@johnismay.bsky.social

A Centcom conference to discuss ways to reduce civilian harm in their operations comes shortly after a member of the HASC intervened to stop an Army official from reassigning all remaining staff working on the problem. w/ @malachy.bsky.social & @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Leaders Will Examine Ways to Limit Civilian Deaths in WarU.S. Central Command will hold a daylong conference at its Tampa headquarters after seven months of war in Iran.

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Malachy Browne
@malachy.bsky.social

NEW: U.S. Central Command will hold a conference on reducing civilian harm at its Tampa HQ this month. It follows multiple U.S. strikes that killed hundreds of civilians in Iran this year and in Yemen in 2025. W/ @johnismay.bsky.social @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Leaders Will Examine Ways to Limit Civilian Deaths in War (Gift Article)U.S. Central Command will hold a daylong conference at its Tampa headquarters after seven months of war in Iran.

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Eliot Higgins
@eliothiggins.bsky.social

New York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AI reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-yor...

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukNew York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AIWhen Malachy Browne started piecing together videos of the Arab Spring in early 2011, he wasn’t thinking about building a new kind of journalism. He was just trying to figure out what was real.What be...

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The Upshot
@upshot.nytimes.com

It's a remarkable, alarming demonstration of A.I. capabilities that were thought to be in a distant future. Via @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/s...

nytimes.comAnatomy of an Autonomous Attack: 5 Alarming A.I. Capabilities (Gift Article)When OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, they demonstrated ingenuity and drive beyond what many experts imagined — a dangerous harbinger of what such bots could do in the future.

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Dylan Freedman
@dylanfreedman.nytimes.com

OpenAI voluntarily let three researchers from A.I. safety nonprofits investigate how its rogue A.I. agents hacked Hugging Face, leading to the most comprehensive account yet of the alarming incident — but on OpenAI's terms. My latest for NYT:

nytimes.comHow OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face (Gift Article)A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.

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Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming. Cybersecurity is going to become a mess soon collusion.wiki

collusion.wikiDiscovery of a new OpenAI agent message boardA swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

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Jake Godin
@godin.bsky.social

Additional geolocation using @planet.com SkySat imagery from July related the piece below: CCTV footage showed the strikes in Kuhestak, Iran as they happened. Appears to have been filmed near the town's destroyed police station. Map link: www.google.com/maps/place/2... TG link: t.me/Pelenya/31384

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Using weapon remnants, satellite images, witness accounts, here's our report on the U.S. airstrike on a wedding gathering in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed 5 and wounded 67. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...

nytimes.comIn Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy (Gift Article)The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.

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Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc.bsky.social

Using weapon remnants, satellite images, witness accounts, here's our report on the U.S. airstrike on a wedding gathering in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed 5 and wounded 67. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...

nytimes.comIn Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy (Gift Article)The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc.bsky.social

Among those killed in Kuhestak was Amir-Mohammad Karimi, a 6-year-old who was starting kindergarten, according to his mother. (Initially reported 4yo Amir-Ali. Interview w/ mother corrected that.) His face matches a video of a dead body inside morgue. t.co/wZhVm0fjbC

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Three other named victims are Mohammad Malahi, 16, whose body was so badly disfigured that they used the mobile phone found on his body to confirm it was him; Kolsoum Malahi Najandnia, 43; and Zarkhatoun Taheri, 50. The bride and groom survived the attack.

Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc.bsky.social

A JSOW bomb also appeared to be loaded under the wings of a F/A-18E Super Hornet taking off in a video published by the U.S. Central Command last night alongside a statement that it had conducted strikes on targets in Iran. Image annotation via Army Recognition: x.com/ArmyRecognit...

Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc.bsky.social

The Kuhestak wedding strike is the fourth episode reported by @nytimes.com in which U.S. strikes with no military use were bombed and civilians were killed. Feb 28: Tomahawk on Minab school Feb 28: PrSM on Lamerd sports hall July 31: 2K bomb on residential area

Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc.bsky.social

(For transparency: I have deleted earlier tweets that cited an analysis identifying some components incorrectly as a SLAM-ER cruise missile. There's also a photo of a GBU-39 component that we didn't include because we cannot verify where it was taken.)

Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc.bsky.social

Regardless, we believe the U.S. used multiple munitions across various sites in Kuhestak last night. One strike destroyed a communications tower, but two witnesses (the bride’s father and a young guest) report the wedding location was hit by two separate strikes.

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The strike happened at 21:30 local time. Within 30 mins, reports spread online. One came from Motahareh, a henna party guest. Her last photo before the blast showed them smoking shisha. She survived and documented the aftermath online.

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High-resolution satellite imagery from Vantor shows the aftermath of the devastating floods along the Nepal-China border. This is the Gyirong Port/Rasuwagadhi border post (location: 28.280, 85.377).

Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc.bsky.social

I had the chance to meet this year's cohort of the @pulitzercenter.org's Ocean Reporting Network. Such an impressive group, such important work. You could be part of the next cohort of fellows spending a year on an in-depth ocean story. Applications are open: pulitzercenter.org/grants-fello...

pulitzercenter.orgApply To Join the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN)The Network will establish a collaborative ecosystem of journalists around the world. Together, they will uncover the harmful and illegal practices of the fishing and extractive industries, systemic.....
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Ecuadorean fishermen say drones attacked them in the Pacific — English-speaking men in US-flag uniforms, no insignia. 8 missing, several injured. Flight data shows a patrol plane shifting course to stay pointed at all 3 boats. It's on no Pentagon roll, registered to a UPS store mailbox in Virginia.

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Patrick Chovanec
@prchovanec.bsky.social

Pirates could easily impersonate the US military these days, and no one would know the difference. Just like criminal gangs could easily impersonate ICE, and who could tell?

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Ecuadorean fishermen say drones attacked them in the Pacific — English-speaking men in US-flag uniforms, no insignia. 8 missing, several injured. Flight data shows a patrol plane shifting course to stay pointed at all 3 boats. It's on no Pentagon roll, registered to a UPS store mailbox in Virginia.

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@trbrtc.bsky.social

Ecuadorean fishermen say drones attacked them in the Pacific — English-speaking men in US-flag uniforms, no insignia. 8 missing, several injured. Flight data shows a patrol plane shifting course to stay pointed at all 3 boats. It's on no Pentagon roll, registered to a UPS store mailbox in Virginia.

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@trbrtc.bsky.social

Ecuadorean fishermen say drones attacked them in the Pacific — English-speaking men in US-flag uniforms, no insignia. 8 missing, several injured. Flight data shows a patrol plane shifting course to stay pointed at all 3 boats. It's on no Pentagon roll, registered to a UPS store mailbox in Virginia.

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The Verge
@theverge.com

Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping News, the closest vessel was actually Mark Zuckerberg’s super yacht, Launchpad.

theverge.comZuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boatThe small cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued the skiff that ran out of fuel.

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Tom Dannenbaum
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social

I spoke w @trbrtc.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social re grave IHL concerns w this attack -What was the target? Likely a building, given munition. -Homes are presumptively civilian. What, if any, basis was there to believe it was being / about to be used to make effective contrib. to mil action? 1/2

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The U.S. struck a family home on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb, according to an analysis of videos, photos and satellite imagery by weapons experts and The New York Times. Iranian officials said the strike killed a boy and his parents.

nyti.msEvidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 CiviliansThe weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

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Adil Haque
@adhaque.bsky.social

"The United States struck a family home on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb, according to an analysis of videos, photos and satellite imagery by weapons experts and The New York Times." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

nytimes.comEvidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 CiviliansThe weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

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The New York Times
@nytimes.com

The U.S. struck a family home on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb, according to an analysis of videos, photos and satellite imagery by weapons experts and The New York Times. Iranian officials said the strike killed a boy and his parents.

nyti.msEvidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 CiviliansThe weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.