#shadow-analysis
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A shadow is the cheapest witness in any investigation. It can't be bribed, it doesn't get tired, and it has no political opinions — it just falls where physics tells it to fall. If a photo claims to be from Donetsk at 11:40 in July but the shadows are pointing the wrong way, you don't need a confession. The sun alrea…
A timestamp on a tweet is a claim. The shadow under the burning building isn't. Chronolocation is the OSINT discipline of pinning down when a photo or video was captured — without trusting metadata, captions, or the source. EXIF strips on every social upload. Dates lie. Captions lie harder. What doesn't lie: the angl…