If you’ve been paying attention to the world of misinformation and disinformation for the past decade, you know the names of Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis.
Joshua Benton
Senior Writer, Nieman Lab
Alexios Mantzarlis
I am a recovering fact-checker and tech worker. I spend 80% of my time at Cornell Tech as the director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative and the remaining time on Indicator.
Craig Silverman
I’ve spent more than 15 years researching and reporting on how our information environment is being manipulated. I’m obsessed with learning and teaching new digital investigative and OSINT techniques.
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An Indicator membership provides essential intelligence to make you a better investigator, researcher, reporter, or trust and safety professional.
Indicator is trusted by professionals worldwide to keep them on the cutting edge of digital investigative techniques and to understand trends and threats in digital deception and information integrity.
Member Benefits
A membership provides access to all of our content, guides, and research plus a monthly workshop.
Exclusive Insights
Exclusive reporting and investigations that expose new threats, hold platforms accountable, and reveal the people and entities trying to manipulate the information environment.
Guides and Tools
Hands-on guides to OSINT and digital investigative tools and techniques. We help you become a better investigator, whether you’re a professional or a motivated citizen trying to separate the signal from the noise.
Deep Dives
Deep-dive breakdowns of impactful digital and OSINT investigations and research to help you learn and apply the lessons in your own work and life.
Academic Library
A regularly updated Academic Library that collects and summarizes research studies related to misinformation, fact-checking, AI-generated deceptive content, and more.
Workshop
A monthly workshop that offers live walkthroughs of investigations, tools and techniques.
In-Depth Analysis
Insightful analysis of the digital information ecosystem.
What Indicator members say
If you aren't following the work of Craig Silverman and Indicator you should be -- amazing info, tools & tips coming out all the time about managing this disordered information universe we're inhabiting.
Nicole Blanchett
Associate professor, Toronto Metropolitan School of Journalism
Alexios and Craig have built something exceptional with The Indicator. For folks serious about strengthening their OSINT skills and closing gaps that enable malign actors, their workshop is a must-attend!
Ruben Gomez
Researcher and former trust & safety worker at Reddit and Twitter/X
Packed with sharp insights on disinformation, open-source investigations, fact-checking, and media manipulation and analyzing ads campaigns. A mix of weekly briefings, deep-dives, and practical guides for anyone working with information online.
Alicja Pawłowska
OSINT analyst
Our Impact
Holding platforms & people accountable
Indicator’s mission is to expose digital deception and to teach people how to do it for themselves.Here’s a small sample of the impact that our work has had. Upgrade now to support our work.
25,000
Ads removed for abusive nudifier apps that were uncovered by Indicator
1.8 million
Combined follower count of accounts that TikTok removed after we showed that they used AI avatars of well-known journalists to spread false information in Spanish
5.9 million
Number of followers of a set of LinkedIn page that Indicator exposed for spammy job listings
