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Briefing: AI comes for fashion and a tool for guessing email addresses

Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation

Aug 29, 2025

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How good are generalist AI tools at identifying public figures in videos?

I tested seven of them. One came out on top.

Aug 28, 2025

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3 free or affordable social media monitoring tools for your OSINT toolkit

These tools can help fill some of the void left by CrowdTangle (RIP)

Aug 26, 2025

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Briefing: A resurgence of anti-vaxx misinfo and testing AI tools for research

Plus: Why a fact checking outlet ditched labels like "false" and "satire" in favor of a new approach

Aug 22, 2025

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Celebrity slop: Hoax pages thrive under Meta’s relaxed moderation

Indicator identified more than 100 foreign-run Facebook pages that use AI to spread false claims about celebs like Stephen Colbert, Caitlin Clark and others

Aug 21, 2025

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TikTok’s rewards program has incentivized a thriving marketplace for US accounts and tax IDs

Brazil’s ‘TikTok Dark’ targets the Global North with geoshifted clickbait accounts

Aug 19, 2025

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Briefing: AI chatbots gone wild and tips for investigating X and VSCO

Plus: a US academic explains why he's done with researching misinformation

Aug 15, 2025

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Dozens of TikTok accounts use AI avatars of real journalists to spread fake news

The platform’s Spanish-language misinformation problem led me to a Brazilian marketplace for monetized TikTok accounts

Aug 13, 2025

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AI-enabled geolocation: A conversation with GeoSpy's Daniel Heinen

He said that using an LLM to do geolocation is "like using a chainsaw to do surgery versus a scalpel."

Aug 11, 2025

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