It’s hard, right? Unless you see something yourself, you’re trusting someone, or at least trusting that the evidence for it isn’t fabricated. The century long shortcut that video evidence specifically has been is coming to an end.
If you trust the EU to any degree, they established the EDMO, which is exactly the kind of resource you’re looking for.
It’s not what you asked, but I’d also suggest supplementing with sources other than mass media. It tends to focus an a few dramatic things, and while that is often important, it can actually distort the big picture in the process. I don’t mean “alternative media”, I mean looking at scholarly sources on the exact thing you’re interested in, like a UN report, trusted statistical data or a personal account from someone with a lot of adjacent experience and no vested interests.
Probably a dumb question but what about Wikipedia? For about the past six months i have been pretty much addicted to it.
I too, spend a lot of time on Wikipedia. It’s not nearly as unreliable as the old school people seem to think, based on my experience. For hard data, there’s typically a citation you can check to be really sure.
This maybe stupid but what usually happens is I read a good article and see the references and usually click on those to learn more. Though since I have been reading about historical terrorist stuff I think I will probably get arrested by the FBI lol.