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I am a recovering fact-checker and tech worker. I care about online information quality as a fundamental prerequisite for healthy societies.
Plus: We added roughly 2,000 tools to OSINT Navigator.
May 1, 2026
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5 min read
TikTok removed hundreds of videos pushing hoax reward schemes after Indicator reached out
Apr 29, 2026
3 min read
Plus: the UK tries to take on deepfakes, and the FTC and NewsGuard continue to tangle.
Apr 24, 2026
Apps with millions of downloads advertise as tools for impersonation – and there’s no obvious solution
Apr 23, 2026
4 min read
Plus: X pays clickbait accounts a little less
Apr 17, 2026
7 min read
Indicator’s map of school-related incidents shows the global reach of these tools of abuse
Apr 15, 2026
This group of X accounts tried to keep Tory tweets fact check-free
Apr 14, 2026
10 min read
Plus: How to extract account info and other data from shared URLs.
Apr 10, 2026
15 min read
Plus: How to set up a custom RSS feed for the Internet Archive, and tools for geolocation.
Apr 3, 2026
13 min read
We talked about her work exposing the networks behind non-consensual deepfake pornography
Apr 2, 2026
Plus: Tools for Telegram, geolocation, and running AI models locally.
Mar 27, 2026
17 min read
But was it a paid promotion or something else altogether?
Mar 25, 2026
9 min read
Plus: Meta is still making money from AI nudifiers
Mar 20, 2026
12 min read
Indicator’s latest audit of three generators and five social media platforms revealed multiple gaps
Mar 18, 2026
14 min read
Plus: How *not* to use photo forensics tools and the best way to vet browser extensions.
Mar 13, 2026
16 min read
Our new Grok-is-this-True tracker is a portal into viral misinformation
Mar 11, 2026
8 min read
Plus: Check out our redesigned and updated Academic Library and a bunch of new OSINT tools
Mar 6, 2026
18 min read
We talked about investigating scams, CSAM, and more with Clara Jiménez Cruz of Maldita.es
Mar 2, 2026
Plus: how to view tweets without logging in, investigate ecommerce sites, and more.
Feb 27, 2026
Daily News Now tops search results for local news podcasts with AI content
Feb 25, 2026
Plus: updates to tools for inspecting websites and analyzing Telegram.
Feb 20, 2026
11 min read
Plus: Tools for counting crowd size and generating Google Dorks.
Feb 13, 2026
David Chiu, San Francisco's top lawyer, speaks to Indicator
Feb 11, 2026
Plus: a world map of OSINT tools and methods for investigating GitHub.
Feb 6, 2026
In one prolific WhatsApp group, anywhere between 95¢ and $235
Feb 4, 2026
