The Washington Post will “significantly expand” its Visual Forensics team, the group that verifies and analyzes on-the-ground footage from major news events

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The team has distinguished itself with duPont Award-winning coverage of the police crackdown in Lafayette Square, video investigations of January 6, and verification of video from Ukraine. —

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