I'm the co-founder of Indicator and have been investigating digital deception for more than a decade.
Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation
Aug 29, 2025
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9 min read
These tools can help fill some of the void left by CrowdTangle (RIP)
Aug 26, 2025
2 min read
Plus: Why a fact checking outlet ditched labels like "false" and "satire" in favor of a new approach
Aug 22, 2025
8 min read
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
Plus: a US academic explains why he's done with researching misinformation
Aug 15, 2025
He said that using an LLM to do geolocation is "like using a chainsaw to do surgery versus a scalpel."
Aug 11, 2025
Plus: AI-generated Jorge Ramos is spreading false claims about Donald Trump's health on TikTok
Aug 8, 2025
Members can access the video, slides, and transcript
Aug 7, 2025
A guide to using the free bookmarklets offered by My OSINT Training
Aug 4, 2025
Plus: humans suck at spotting AI-generated images
Aug 1, 2025
Inside a previously unreported investigative experiment that helped counter a key claim about Meta's ad system
Jul 31, 2025
Plus: AI is ushering in a global fraud crisis and new research about YouTube and ChatGPT
Jul 25, 2025
10 min read
The ads falsely told people that their phone had been infected with viruses, was compromised by hackers, or that their Facebook account would be permanently disabled.
Jul 24, 2025
A new study identified thousands of YouTube channels that changed their name, description and content focus, typically after being sold to a new owner.
Jul 22, 2025
3 min read
Plus: how therapy chatbots fuel delusions, and X tries to explain Grok's Nazi turn
Jul 18, 2025
7 min read
Plus: A look at Community Notes en español, how to jailbreak LLMs with fake citations, and a Google dork generator
Jul 11, 2025
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
1 min read
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
Here's the video, notes, slides and transcript of our first workshop
Jul 2, 2025
Plus, a new feature in OpenAleph, Elon fights Grok, and John Oliver on AI slop
Jun 27, 2025
11 min read
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
Your must reads and must tries on the digital deception beat this week
Jun 20, 2025
14 min read
Indicator found 26 channels spreading false claims about the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs via AI-generated thumbnails and video content
Jun 18, 2025
Jun 13, 2025
13 min read
Let's dive into domain-generating algorithms and connecting websites via shared URLs, html titles, and favicons
Jun 9, 2025
4 min read
