The Indicator Framework: How to tell what your digital evidence is actually worth

A repeatable method for weighing the indicators in an OSINT investigation and telling the genuine leads from the fakes, the dead ends, and the merely common.

Briefing: US judge rules for fact-checkers and content moderators

Plus: A breakdown of 150 OSINT tools, and a free dashboard for analyzing Polymarket.

Show & Tell: How to poison AI research agents

Researcher Hal Triedman explained how a few words on Reddit can fool an AI research agent, and shared tools for investigating Wikipedia

Briefing: X tries to undo its monetization mess

Plus: Tools for genealogy research, Facebook profile analysis, image metadata analysis, and more.

Workshop video: Using AI to investigate a North Korean hiring scam

Plus: how to connect an LLM to Obsidian for investigative work

Briefing: UK plots platform mandate for ‘trustworthy’ news (good luck defining it)

Plus: search the Chinese web like a pro, and tools for YouTube and emails.

32 OSINT tools and tips I discovered at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference

How to surface sealed court cases, trace crypto for free, unmask anonymous companies, and use a new tool to search documents in a powerful way.

Briefing: World Cup scams and disinfo

Plus: using AI agents for investigations and OSINT techniques for Telegram.

Show & Tell: How a Haaretz reporter infiltrates companies offering disinformation-as-a-service

We talked with Omer Benjakob about getting the bad guys to share their capabilities and how he uses AI to structure his reporting and research

Get your machine set up for OSINT

The free apps, browser extensions, and OPSEC tools investigators install first.

Briefing: Google liable for false AI Overviews, German court finds

Plus: Venmo OSINT, a tool to calculate the height of a building, and Polymarket payola.

I got inside a North Korean hiring scam. What I found reveals a troubling shift in tactics

DPRK hackers hired unwitting freelancers in the Philippines, Nigeria, and Colombia to put a human face on a malware operation — and make fake companies feel real.

Briefing: Meta's AI support nightmare

Plus: Google's document analysis tool goes public, and the wrong way to train LLMs for debunking.

Workshop video: AI skills for investigators

Briefing: YouTube stops hiding its AI labels

Plus: Extracting emails from GitHub accounts, and news about that viral image of Thai police disguised as dancers.

Tips for images, geolocation, and visualization that I learned from 5 OSINT videos

A satellite imagery cheat sheet, enhancing images, and selecting the right visualization tools for analysis and reports.

Briefing: New tools for AI image verification

Plus: the FTC warns nudifier apps, and why AI models repeat falsehoods.

The Indicator Guide to Using Skills in Chrome for OSINT

Three ready-to-install browser prompts for analyzing social media profiles, extracting entities from webpages, and assessing images — plus how to build your own.

Briefing: Adapting to satellite imagery blackouts

Plus: Misinformation researchers take the Trump administration to court over visa bans, and more.

Show & Tell: How Amnesty International collects evidence from war zones for visual investigations

We talked with Barbara Marcolini of Amnesty International about how she documented the Israeli military’s destruction of civilian infrastructure in southern Lebanon

Earth Index: A step-by-step guide to searching satellite imagery with AI

How to set up a project, label samples, and search for matching structures and landscape features across the planet.

Briefing: How researchers identified over 400 people in the Epstein Files

Plus: the EU takes a big step towards banning AI nudifiers, and a fake Muslim candidate generating real hate.

Workshop video: Finding the true owner of a company

We covered tips and tools for uncovering beneficial ownership

Briefing: Spotify says it will verify human artists (for now)

Plus: We added roughly 2,000 tools to OSINT Navigator.

19 free tools you can use to investigate a URL

Tools and techniques for digging into links, redirects, parameters, and more.