Bellingcat Challenge #34 "Future Plans" Writeup

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Challenge

Nearly two years after Bellingcat registered their organisation in The Netherlands, the group released a document outlining their plans for the future.

The author of this document also published several articles on the Bellingcat website.

Your task is to find the article they published closest to when the document was created, and provide its last word (answer format: word).

Solution

According to Bellingcat’s General Information page, Stichting Bellingcat was registered in the Netherlands in 2018. Based on the challenge’s reference to “nearly two years,” I searched for an official document from 2020.

I checked the General Information page and tried searches such as site:bellingcat.com filetype:pdf after:2020-01-01 before:2021-12-31, but did not find the document. The Policy Plan listed on the General Information page seemed the closest match for a document about future plans, so I focused on finding an earlier PDF.

A DuckDuckGo search led to the Bellingcat Policy Plan 2019–2021. Its PDF metadata records a creation time of June 23, 2020, at 12:43:16 AM JST and identifies Aric Toler as the author.

I searched Aric Toler’s author page for the article published closest to the PDF’s creation date. The closest article was How (Not) To Report On Russian Disinformation, published on April 15, 2020. The final word of the article body is record.

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