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AI Nudifiers continue to reach millions and make millions

Our exclusive analysis estimates that the nudifier economy may be worth up to $36 million a year

Jul 14, 2025

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4 min read

Briefing: Grok goes on a Nazi bender and YouTube hints it will go after AI slop

Plus: A look at Community Notes en español, how to jailbreak LLMs with fake citations, and a Google dork generator

Jul 11, 2025

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8 min read

5 new (to me) OSINT tools for researching YouTube, Meta ads, and more

How to find out if a YouTube video is monetized, analyze election and social issues ads in new ways, and refine your Google queries

Jul 9, 2025

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1 min read

TikTok has a celebrity giveaway scams problem

An organized network of accounts is using TikTok to get tens of thousands of leads for an advance fee scam

Jul 7, 2025

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1 min read

Briefing: AI bots join Community Notes and Clothoff whistleblower speaks

Plus: Academics try fighting AI peer reviews with hidden prompts, SCOTUS refuses to review case against fact-checkers, and a tool that lets you search X without being logged in.

Jul 4, 2025

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10 min read

Workshop Video: Hunting fake online reviews and no-code scraping

Here's the video, notes, slides and transcript of our first workshop

Jul 2, 2025

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2 min read

YouTube ran highlights for Club World Cup games before they were played

A clever scheme got millions of views (and top tier ads) by exploiting data voids and abusing the trimming functionality

Jun 30, 2025

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2 min read

Briefing: Google kills fact-checking feature and Meta monetized sanctioned Russian entities

Plus, a new feature in OpenAleph, Elon fights Grok, and John Oliver on AI slop

Jun 27, 2025

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11 min read

The Indicator guide to connecting websites together using OSINT tools and methods

A deep dive into new and established ways to fingerprint site content and infrastructure, link sites via ad and analytics IDs/tags, favicons, and more

Jun 26, 2025

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3 min read