{"id":103258,"date":"2020-03-04T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/inside-the-secret-hong-kong-group-tracking-protests-the-police-and-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-04T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T18:44:19","slug":"inside-the-secret-hong-kong-group-tracking-protests-the-police-and-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/inside-the-secret-hong-kong-group-tracking-protests-the-police-and-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Inside the secret Hong Kong group tracking protests, the police, and coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-the-secret-hong-kong-group-tracking-protests-the-police-and-coronavirus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The synchronized footage, published online in January, was assembled by a mostly anonymous online group of sleuths called <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.osinthk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Osint HK<\/a>, which has been keeping tabs on protesters and journalists\u2019 often-violent encounters with police during the more than eight months of Hong Kong\u2019s near-daily anti-government, pro-democracy protests. Osint HK has spent hours each day scouring social networks for videos and other media to document police misconduct across Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The protests are still happening, but they\u2019ve slowed due to fears over the coronavirus, which has been spreading from China across the globe. So Osint HK more recently has begun focusing its efforts on educating the public about the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are confused, and they don\u2019t know where to turn,\u201d says Trey Menefee, the founder and public face of Osint HK. \u201cWe are trying to be a trusted source of information, cutting through the fog to find out what did or didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The synchronized footage, published online in January, was assembled by a mostly anonymous online group of sleuths called Osint HK, which has been keeping tabs on protesters and journalists\u2019 often-violent encounters with police during the more than eight months of Hong Kong\u2019s near-daily anti-government, pro-democracy protests. Osint HK has spent hours each day scouring social [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}