How I solved Fresh Faced - Finding the Founder
How I solved ‘Fresh Faced - Finding the Founder’
BellingCat challenge
Given a newspaper photo clipping you were meant to find a corresponding youtube interview regarding the founder of Bellingcat: Eliot Higgins and provide the code at the end of the link.
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I first translated the words in the newspaper clipping by using autodetect and found that they were in croatian.
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Inserted that phrase into google led me to a site “https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/kako-sam-otkrio-da-hrvati-salju-oruzje-u-siriju-532428” . I then went astray from the next logical step.
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I then tried basic catchhrases that might trigger something on google such as: “eliot higgings youtube interview 2013” and “eliot higgins croatian 2013”
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Then I searched for the actual conflict “Croatia sending weappons to Syria”. I ran some sites though the wayback machine finding myself to Eliot Higgin’s blog he operated under the alias “Brown Moses”
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Then I searched for the biggest newspapers in croatia getting a list of a few I ran them with the same keywords as before: “eliot higgins 2013”
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This leads me to a google query result of the same original link I got to and right b=loe that was the youtube video where the thumbnail matched the picture in the challenge and the youtube video was uploaded by the same person who wrote the first article I read (the logical step from there).