This article explores the interactions between journalistic actors and emerging open-source intelligence and investigation (OSINT) communities. It employs qualitative content analysis of discourse from two OSINT communities surrounding three events following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which received substantial coverage in news media. OSINT practices are rapidly becoming a mainstay of the contemporary political process by allowing ordinary citizens to verify information shared through digital platforms, which is traditionally the societal task assigned to journalism. In doing so, they provide a timely factual baseline for opinion formation and political decision-making. This research explores the role constellations resulting from this shift in verification duties from journalistic actors to amateur online communities on digital platforms and maps the fundamental dynamics involved in OSINT. We analyze how information is received and processed in OSINT communities, how digital platforms facilitate the fact-checking process, and how journalism and OSINT interact. Based on our findings, we develop a theoretical framework that distinguishes between the input, throughput, and output phases of OSINT. Our model contributes to a baseline understanding of the crucial and novel partnership between citizens and journalists on digital platforms.

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共同努力：数字平台上新闻业和 OSINT 社区之间的新分工


本文探讨了新闻工作者与新兴开源情报和调查 (OSINT) 社区之间的互动。它对两个 OSINT 社区围绕 2022 年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后的三起事件的言论进行了定性内容分析，这些事件在新闻媒体上得到了大量报道。开源情报实践正迅速成为当代政治进程的支柱，它允许普通公民验证通过数字平台共享的信息，这传统上是分配给新闻业的社会任务。在此过程中，它们为意见形成和政治决策提供了及时的事实基线。这项研究探讨了验证职责从新闻工作者向数字平台上的业余在线社区转变所产生的角色群，并绘制了开源情报所涉及的基本动态。我们分析开源情报社区如何接收和处理信息、数字平台如何促进事实核查过程以及新闻和开源情报如何互动。根据我们的发现，我们开发了一个理论框架来区分 OSINT 的输入、吞吐量和输出阶段。我们的模型有助于对数字平台上公民和记者之间至关重要且新颖的伙伴关系有一个基本的了解。