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Plus: LLMs for geolocation and disinformation about the US midterms.
Oct 30, 2026
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5 min read
Indicator’s Entity Vault is a searchable database of names, accounts, companies, phone numbers, and other entities associated with digital deception
Oct 28, 2026
2 min read
Plus: a new tool for searching online archives and a Google Analytics trick.
Oct 23, 2026
A Q&A with Jeff Dunn on user verification in dating apps and how AI is changing Trust & Safety
Oct 21, 2026
10 min read
Plus: A new image analysis tool and a list of companies selling AI training data.
Oct 16, 2026
9 min read
“I don’t trust anything,” he told us
Oct 15, 2026
Plus: a Telegram search tool, and tracing traffic in satellite imagery.
Oct 9, 2026
7 min read
The encyclopedia's public investigations and community tools provide useful leads for journalists and researchers
Oct 8, 2026
Plus: How to detect changes in satellite imagery, and a fact-checking skill for your AI platform.
Oct 2, 2026
6 min read
An Indicator audit found labels on only 8% of ads for visa providers that overcharge their users
Sep 30, 2026
4 min read
Plus: tools for analyzing satellite imagery, domains, corporate networks, and more.
Sep 25, 2026
Plus: Extracting useful info from Wayback Machine captures, and a new foreign interference dashboard.
Sep 18, 2026
Using AI to investigate Musk’s AI encyclopedia
Sep 17, 2026
Plus: How to find the owner of a Stripe checkout page, and a major report on slopaganda.
Sep 11, 2026
Crowdsourced fact-checking on Instagram covered just 3% of false posts debunked by one fact-checking website
Sep 10, 2026
Plus: fake journalists on YouTube, and what X's takedown of a Chinese info op left out.
Sep 4, 2026
Indicator’s latest audit reveals the company let a network of identifiable bad actors run thousands of ads for nonconsensual deepfake nudes
Sep 3, 2026
Plus: new tools for searching usernames and tracking satellite imagery.
Aug 28, 2026
8 min read
We tracked it back to a single scammy affiliate marketing operation
Aug 26, 2026
Plus: fact-checking the midterms and tracking Russian flights in Africa.
Aug 21, 2026
Fake trades, fake websites, and inauthentic amplification
Aug 19, 2026
Plus: Spotify's new AI labels, and how to locate hidden security cameras.
Aug 14, 2026
We found detectors for six out of thirteen companies, and fooled all but one
Aug 12, 2026
Plus: A new free global company lookup tool and doing OSINT on online marketplaces.
Aug 7, 2026
Indicator’s no-code and product-agnostic guide to probing for harmful stuff
Aug 5, 2026
15 min read
