I'm the co-founder of Indicator and have been investigating digital deception for more than a decade.
Ad repositories can help with backgrounding people and companies, and with investigating influence and disinformation campaigns
Oct 14, 2025
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49 min read
Plus: tools for tracking sketchy ships, viewing JSON files, and more
Oct 10, 2025
9 min read
Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and X are giving billions to creators. Here's how to see who's getting paid
Oct 7, 2025
2 min read
Plus: changes to Facebook search that you need to know about
Oct 3, 2025
12 min read
Indicator found thousands of ads that featured bare breasts and simulated sex acts
Sep 30, 2025
3 min read
Hands on with some cool free tools
Sep 29, 2025
1 min read
Plus: Spotify rolls out anti-slop measures, and inside Russia's copycat "fact-checking" group
Sep 26, 2025
How to find author accounts and inspect images, files, and plugins
Sep 22, 2025
Plus: Tools for archiving YouTube videos, identifying manhole covers, and scanning scam infrastructure
Sep 19, 2025
We tested 11 tools ranging from full-featured continuous capture apps to one-off screenshot extensions for grabbing long webpages
Sep 17, 2025
Plus: A tool for YouTube and Joe Rogan doubles down after falling for an AI-generated image
Sep 12, 2025
13 min read
At least half a dozen repos or entire accounts were recently banned or blocked from public access
Sep 8, 2025
Plus: chatbots are providing inaccurate info, are susceptible to flattery and peer pressure
Sep 5, 2025
DressX, which has raised $15 million in financing, said the ads were placed by a contractor. Meta banned the ad accounts after being contacted by Indicator
Sep 2, 2025
Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation
Aug 29, 2025
These tools can help fill some of the void left by CrowdTangle (RIP)
Aug 26, 2025
Plus: Why a fact checking outlet ditched labels like "false" and "satire" in favor of a new approach
Aug 22, 2025
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
