Benedict Garman
@benedictgarman
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Investigative journalist. Passive account. I no longer share here. Find me on Bluesky: @benedictgarman.com (https://t.co/KXRivinSeP)
Joined March 2009
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More than two thirds of the tents at Trump's migrant camp at Guantanamo Bay have been taken back down #gitmo
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Some 175 tents raised as part of an expansion to the base's migrant detention centre have been removed.
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The situation in Gaza, 15 months after Oct 7
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BBC Verify examines how fighting has impacted civilians lives in Gaza, after over a year of fighting.
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The area in Gaza which Israel's military has told people to go to "for their safety" has been hit by 97 strikes since May, BBC Verify analysis has revealed. By @benedictgarman Richard Irvine-Brown and @paulybrown
https://t.co/DTjOLu0JcK
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The area in Gaza which Israel's military has told people to go to "for their safety" has been hit by 97 strikes since May, BBC Verify analysis has revealed.
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BBC Verify has identified what appears to be damage to a storage unit at the Abadan Oil Refinery based in Iran's Khuzestan province following Israeli strikes on Saturday. This is a comparison of @planet images showing the refinery on 25 and 27 October. With @benedictgarman
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@BashaReport @IAFsite Reportedly, a Lebanese Hezbollah (Mirsad-1, an Iranian Shahed-101 variant) drone passes an IDF AH-64D Saraf [Viper] Apache. POV 32.850458, 35.090335 GeoLocated by @benedictgarman Proof for @GeoConfirmed
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From @BowenBBC: A year of killing and broken assumptions has taken Middle East to edge of deeper, wider war. With analysis from BBC Verify’s @paulybrown and @benedictgarman on the condition of Gaza:
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Twelve months on from the 7 October attacks which led to Israel's war in Gaza, our international editor says the region is on the edge of something even worse.
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Israeli forces have been laying tarmac along a key road in Gaza, long known by its military codename: the Philadelphi Corridor. BBC Verify analyses satellite imagery, photos and video. Reporting from @benedictgarman:
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BBC Verify looks at roadwork that analysts say shows Israel is unlikely to fully withdraw from Gaza any time soon.
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Latest piece is on Israel paving Philadelphi Corridor while it remains sticking point in ceasefire negotiations, with insight from @andreas_krieg, and contrib from @joshcheetham and @lameesaltalebi
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BBC Verify looks at roadwork that analysts say shows Israel is unlikely to fully withdraw from Gaza any time soon.
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A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee. There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...
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Latest disinformation debunk from BBC Verify: Baseless claim that Kamala Harris was involved in an alleged hit-and-run incident spread by mysterious website. Reporting from @Shayan86, @MerlynThomas and @lh_gilder: https://t.co/JqR97UHJol
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The false story has been viewed millions of times online - we break down how you can know it was fake.
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This pernicious lie demonstrates the alarming scale of misinformation being spread online. I implore all users of social media to think critically and act responsibly.
Russian Telegram channels are circulating a fake BBC screenshot claiming UK’s chief rabbi has called for mosques to be closed. The first time @Shayan86 and I have seen channels routinely churning out imposter fakes like this post about the disorder in the UK.
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Russian Telegram channels are circulating a fake BBC screenshot claiming UK’s chief rabbi has called for mosques to be closed. The first time @Shayan86 and I have seen channels routinely churning out imposter fakes like this post about the disorder in the UK.
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“With Telegram...follow a ton of channels related to a specific story, & organize those into folders, then when you run a search using Telegram’s default global search, you’re more likely to get results.” — @benedictgarman, investigative journalist.
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This viral image purporting to be leaked Twitter/ X code stemming from the url "protected-users.twitter.okta[dot]com" is fake. An Okta spokesperson told me, "We can confirm that this is definitely an invalid url and we confirm the screenshot is fake."
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For this story, GIJN spoke with the BBC team — @AbdirahimS, @benedictgarman, Richard Irvine-Brown, @emmapenggelly, @JamievRyan, & @leguape — behind the October 7 Hamas hostage tracking project, about the methods and tools underpinning their reporting.
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BBC Verify analysis from @BBCRosAtkins already highlighted multiple missed warnings, and now WPXI report the shooter was photographed on the roof 26 minutes before he fired: https://t.co/a3hr9NAh5p -
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Ros Atkins examines the evidence about crucial warnings in the minutes before the attack on Donald Trump.
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Our latest analysis of the attack on Donald Trump. Exclusive vid shows onlookers tried to warn law enforcement officers about the gunman
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BBC Verify examines footage, eyewitness testimony and satellite imagery showing how the attack unfolded.
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