Arte and CAPA (Newen) launched on Monday February 20 on arte.tv and YouTube a digital investigative magazine entitled Sources, which will offer six issues a year and is presented as a "series of investigations carried out from open source databases ", explained the channel in a release. The first episode entitled Les Dossiers de Prigojine will remain accessible for a very long time, until August 29, 2026. The other five will follow in 2023 according to a schedule that has not yet been determined, Arte told Satellifacts.
Sources involves the viewer with the different stages of its investigations and relies on the techniques of Open source intelligence (Osint) which uses social networks, databases freely accessible on the Internet, satellite imagery or even tools for tracking boats or planes. With this video format, which adapts "with pedagogy and rigor" an internet "widely exploited for false purposes", Arte wants to contribute to "dismantle the manipulation of facts and to fight against the growing mistrust of the media".
The first investigation in the series was carried out by Alexandra Jousset and Ksenia Bolchakova, Albert-Londres 2022 prize for their film Wagner, l'armée de l'ombre de Poutine (79'), already produced by CAPA and broadcast on France 5 (Satellifacts, November 28) . It deciphers the workings of the system put in place by Evgueni Prigojine, Russian oligarch at the head of the Wagner militia and "main instigator, from Russia, of hacking and disinformation campaigns against the United States and the Europa”. The digital investigation carried out on " some 2,500 documents hacked from the computer servers of his empire " is able to expose "the workings of the Prigojine system, showing that it constitutes a key element in wars, virtual and physical, involving the Kremlin " and reveals the creation of a security service to track down and punish those who would defect.