GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2024

In December 2024, the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) featuring the OSMP among its top eight open-source investigative tools of the year. It was listed alongside Bellingcat’s Online Investigations Toolkit and Google’s Rapid Fact Check tools.

GIJN wrote that the OSMP “ gives journalists a new method to hold accountable the actors behind the bombing of civilians” by helping to “identify spent bombs and missiles from images via social media and NGOs, with the help of munitions experts and Ukrainian and Arab-speaking researchers”.

GIJN said the OSMP was particularly helpful to journalists as it “identifies bombs and missiles the way reporters and their sources typically encounter them: as charred steel remnants near bomb craters in conflict zones”.