OSINT & Image Verfiication
This OSINT tool helped trace images back to their original or earlier online appearances.
What is reverse image search?
Russia’s tactic of flooding media spaces with confusing or conflicting claims is called this.
What is muddying the waters?
According to Niblett, Russia’s economic future is increasingly linked to this country.
What is China?
Wirtz says this percentage of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050.
What is 60%?
After Mao’s death, China’s image in Southeast Asia shifted away from permanent revolution toward modernization and diplomacy.
What is post-Mao pragmatism?
In the Galwan Valley image, winter clothing, rocky terrain, and military uniforms helped identify this type of environment.
What is a high-altitude border region?
Russian state media copies the style of Western media to create this impression.
What is legitimacy or journalistic credibility?
Russia’s resentment toward the United States is centered largely on this alliance expanding into Eastern Europe.
What is NATO?
Wirtz discusses this disease as a possible risk for a future global pandemic.
What is avian flu?
Deng Xiaoping’s reforms helped China move toward foreign trade, modernization, and this type of diplomacy.
What is state-to-state diplomacy?
The first image was linked to a confrontation between Chinese and Indian troops along this disputed river area.
What is the Galwan River / Galwan Valley?
true or false: Russian propaganda often labels enemies and dissidents as fascists, terrorists, and this World War II-related label.
What is true?
Russia’s worldview is shaped by pride in the Great Patriotic War and humiliation over this event.
What is the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Malthus argued that population grows geometrically while this grows only arithmetically.
What is food supply?
China opposed Soviet-backed Vietnam after Vietnam’s invasion of this country.
What is Cambodia?
The Hezbollah image showed this kind of weapon system used for rapid, high-volume fire.
What is a multiple-rocket launcher system (MLRS)?
Putin’s regime uses the memory of this war to justify the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
What is World War II / the Great Patriotic War?
Russia has invested in the Sahel partly to gain access to funds from this type of resource wealth.
What are minerals?
Infectious disease threats may increase because of refugee movements, flawed food production, and this environmental factor.
What are land use practices?
In the uploaded memo, China became useful to U.S. strategy because it helped counter Soviet and Vietnamese influence in this region.
What is Southeast Asia?
The biggest lesson from the OSINT assignment was not to rely on one clue, but to confirm findings using this.
What is corroborating evidence from multiple sources?
A major goal of Russian disinformation is not always to make people believe one lie, but to make them feel this way about truth itself.
What is Muddy the waters?
Geopolitics is pushing Russia and China together now, even though their relationship during the Cold War was damaged by this split.
What is the Sino-Soviet split?
Niblett argues climate change is harder to address because collective action is now happening during this type of international competition.
What is great power competition?
The memo warns that China’s improved reputation could help Beijing gain diplomatic leverage independent of this country.
What is the United States?