Elise Thomas

OSINT investigator, freelance journalist

Australia

Portfolio
Centre for Information Resilience
04/04/2022
Report: The Separatist's Guide to Circumventing Sanctions

A new report from the Centre for Information Resilience lays out how a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme is helping leadership figures in the breakaway region of Donetsk avoid sanctions. Download the report below. The findings of CIR's open-source investigation focus on two cryptocurrencies linked to high-ranking individuals in the DNR.

bellingcat
10/11/2019
Investigating Information Operations in West Papua: A Digital Forensic Case Study of...

These findings were made by BBC open source investigator Benjamin Strick and Elise Thomas, a researcher with the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. A new open source investigation has analysed a well-funded and co-ordinated social media campaign aimed at distorting the truth about events in the restive Indonesian province of [...]

ASPI
Mapping Rakhine State

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre has collected and analysed satellite imagery to conduct an assessment of the current status of Rohingya settlements in Myanmar's Rakhine state which were burned, damaged or destroyed during the crackdown in 2017.

Foreign Policy
06/21/2019
Facebook Keeps Failing in Myanmar

The Arakan Army's online propaganda campaign shows the tech company hasn't yet figured out how to tackle hate speech on its platform.

WIRED
10/07/2019
The Ties That Bind Facebook's Libra

Facebook says its cryptocurrency will be managed by an independent group, but an analysis finds more than half of the members have links back to the social media giant.