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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: Extracting emails from GitHub accounts, and news about that viral image of Thai police disguised as dancers.
May 29, 2026
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5 min read
The crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy
May 26, 2026
12 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
4 min read
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
7 min read
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
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
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
