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Show & Tell: How WSJ reporters caught Polymarket faking its own site

Fake trades, fake websites, and inauthentic amplification

Aug 19, 2026

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25 tips and tools I learned at the Summer School on Investigative Reporting

Highlights include a bot that profiles Telegram users, a catalogue of public databases, and a former private investigator's advice on getting strangers to talk.

Aug 17, 2026

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10 min read

Briefing: US backtracks on company ownership transparency

Plus: Spotify's new AI labels, and how to locate hidden security cameras.

Aug 14, 2026

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AI generators are now required to offer detection tools. We tested them (and they need work)

We found detectors for six out of thirteen companies, and fooled all but one

Aug 12, 2026

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8 min read

How TikTok bots turned a cancer patient's story into engagement bait

More than 150 inauthentic accounts posted content stolen from Sydney Towle, a cancer patient with more than one million followers who passed away Aug. 5.

Aug 10, 2026

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