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Plus: Tools for genealogy research, Facebook profile analysis, image metadata analysis, and more.
Jul 3, 2026
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6 min read
Plus: search the Chinese web like a pro, and tools for YouTube and emails.
Jun 26, 2026
4 min read
Google served more than 1,500 ads for 20 sites that charge two to seven times the official ticket price
Jun 24, 2026
7 min read
Plus: using AI agents for investigations and OSINT techniques for Telegram.
Jun 19, 2026
5 min read
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
Jun 17, 2026
2 min read
Plus: Venmo OSINT, a tool to calculate the height of a building, and Polymarket payola.
Jun 12, 2026
If you get your bot to rhyme / Pangram will misclassify it many a time
Jun 11, 2026
Plus: Google's document analysis tool goes public, and the wrong way to train LLMs for debunking.
Jun 5, 2026
Apple and Google removed 43 apps flagged by Indicator
Jun 4, 2026
Plus: Extracting emails from GitHub accounts, and news about that viral image of Thai police disguised as dancers.
May 29, 2026
The crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy
May 26, 2026
13 min read
Plus: the FTC warns nudifier apps, and why AI models repeat falsehoods.
May 22, 2026
Plus: Misinformation researchers take the Trump administration to court over visa bans, and more.
May 15, 2026
We talked with Barbara Marcolini of Amnesty International about how she documented the Israeli military’s destruction of civilian infrastructure in southern Lebanon
May 14, 2026
1 min read
Plus: the EU takes a big step towards banning AI nudifiers, and a fake Muslim candidate generating real hate.
May 8, 2026
Indicator found an ecosystem rife with spurious claims, fake products, and AI-generated cheaters
May 7, 2026
Plus: We added roughly 2,000 tools to OSINT Navigator.
May 1, 2026
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
Plus: X pays clickbait accounts a little less
Apr 17, 2026
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
