I am a recovering fact-checker and tech worker. I care about online information quality as a fundamental prerequisite for healthy societies.
Plus: new and updated OSINT bookmarklets to help with your investigations.
Nov 28, 2025
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Plus: Sri Lanka's "Facebook ads king", and advanced archival OSINT
Nov 21, 2025
12 min read
But synthetic contributors aren’t replacing humans – yet
Nov 18, 2025
Plus: we unlocked our paywalled Q&A with the CEO of GeoSpy, an AI-powered geolocation tool.
Nov 14, 2025
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
Nov 13, 2025
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Plus: Fox News falls for racist AI slop, and a tool for investigating Discord servers.
Nov 7, 2025
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“They shouldn't be out there. They shouldn't be operating," said Shane Vogt, the lawyer for a teenage plaintiff
Nov 3, 2025
Plus: an easy way to search for objects within a video and a new web reconnaissance tool
Oct 31, 2025
Plus: how to create a free, private AI setup
Oct 24, 2025
An Indicator audit of hundreds of synthetic images and videos reveals that platforms frequently fail to label AI content
Oct 23, 2025
22 min read
Plus: a new free OSINT bookmarklet that helps you investigate WordPress sites
Oct 17, 2025
Shallow impersonations of Telemundo, CNN, Fox News and other media got more than 200 million views posting fake ICE arrests and bombastic AI slop about geopolitics
Oct 15, 2025
Plus: tools for tracking sketchy ships, viewing JSON files, and more
Oct 10, 2025
9 min read
A new working paper looks at the durability of Community Notes
Oct 9, 2025
Plus: changes to Facebook search that you need to know about
Oct 3, 2025
We’ve collected in one place how and when major platforms label AI content
Oct 2, 2025
15 min read
Plus: Spotify rolls out anti-slop measures, and inside Russia's copycat "fact-checking" group
Sep 26, 2025
Inception Point AI wants to commodify audio AI slop with “How to Earlobe Kiss” and 4,748 other shows
Sep 24, 2025
3 min read
Plus: Tools for archiving YouTube videos, identifying manhole covers, and scanning scam infrastructure
Sep 19, 2025
AI tributes and conspiracy theories about Kirk’s assassination got 32 million views
Sep 15, 2025
2 min read
Plus: A tool for YouTube and Joe Rogan doubles down after falling for an AI-generated image
Sep 12, 2025
13 min read
The company is making it easy for the advertisers to conceal their identity
Sep 10, 2025
Plus: chatbots are providing inaccurate info, are susceptible to flattery and peer pressure
Sep 5, 2025
LinkedIn deleted 27 pages with almost 6 million followers
Sep 4, 2025
Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation
Aug 29, 2025
