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Briefing: Trump administration wants to ban foreign fact-checkers and online safety workers

Briefing: Trump administration wants to ban foreign fact-checkers and online safety workers

Plus: free tools for analyzing ads and extracting links and emails, and X gets fined by the EU.

Dec 5, 2025

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17 min read

Nonconsensual nude generators had another banner year. What will it take to defeat them?

Nonconsensual nude generators had another banner year. What will it take to defeat them?

Deplatforming the companies, debilitating the technology, and deterring the users

Dec 4, 2025

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24 min read

Workshop video: How to find sensitive, publicly available documents

Workshop video: How to find sensitive, publicly available documents

Plus: how I found thousands of undisclosed ads on TikTok

Dec 3, 2025

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2 min read

Community Notes: Big in Japan

Community Notes: Big in Japan

Why are Japan’s amateur fact-checkers doing better on X?

Dec 1, 2025

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9 min read

Briefing: A Mexican journalists' club promotes Russian disinformation

Briefing: A Mexican journalists' club promotes Russian disinformation

Plus: new and updated OSINT bookmarklets to help with your investigations.

Nov 28, 2025

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8 min read

What investigators need to know about X’s new “About this account” feature

What investigators need to know about X’s new “About this account” feature

X account location information is nuanced and tricky. Here's how to evaluate it.

Nov 26, 2025

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18 min read

29 OSINT  tools and tips I discovered at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference

29 OSINT tools and tips I discovered at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference

A new AI tool kinda blew my mind

Nov 25, 2025

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15 min read

Briefing: Good news on the AI slop front. No, really!

Briefing: Good news on the AI slop front. No, really!

Plus: Sri Lanka's "Facebook ads king", and advanced archival OSINT

Nov 21, 2025

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12 min read

Thousands of undisclosed ads flooded TikTok to sell AI study apps

Thousands of undisclosed ads flooded TikTok to sell AI study apps

Maryland-based Mindgrasp used an army of student creators (and actors) to promote its study tools, without disclosing that they were paid.

Nov 20, 2025

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15 min read

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