I've watched these techniques develop over the last several years over on /r/syriancivilwar. The good talent has left (often scooped up by intelligence services

I've watched these techniques develop over the last several years over on /r/syriancivilwar. The good talent has left (often scooped up by intelligence services or private companies), but at its height the forum users were mapping the rates of offensives by geolocating propagandistic combat footage, falsifying Russian claims of fighting ISIS by pinpointing rebel positions hit on airstrikes, and assembling shockingly detailed summaries of the flow of weapons between factions.