I am a recovering fact-checker and tech worker. I care about online information quality as a fundamental prerequisite for healthy societies.
Plus: a world map of OSINT tools and methods for investigating GitHub.
Feb 6, 2026
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11 min read
In one prolific WhatsApp group, anywhere between 95¢ and $235
Feb 4, 2026
10 min read
We talk about investigating Meta scam ads with Jeff Horwitz from Reuters
Feb 3, 2026
3 min read
Plus: A tool for AI-powered company searches, and news sites are blocking the Internet Archive's crawlers.
Jan 30, 2026
9 min read
Grok, Community Notes, and seeking truth on X
Jan 28, 2026
12 min read
Plus: The best tool to download videos from YouTube and other sites.
Jan 23, 2026
But hey, at least some of them appear to be scams that can’t be used to undress
Jan 21, 2026
Plus: The US Senate passed a law allowing victims of nonconsensual deepfake nudes to sue their abusers.
Jan 16, 2026
8 min read
Synthetic videos of Renée Good are the latest form of technology-facilitated dehumanization
Jan 14, 2026
13 min read
Plus: a new feature in the Meta Ad Library and a new Telegram investigation tool.
Jan 9, 2026
16 min read
It also identified weaknesses in Meta's fact-checking program, which faces an uncertain future outside the US
Jan 7, 2026
Plus: a new reverse image search tool, tips for cleaning up your digital footprint, and law firms discover AI slop.
Dec 31, 2025
A case study on crowdsourced fact-checking during breaking news events
Dec 22, 2025
Plus: tools of the year and what OSINT practitioners need to know about AI videos
Dec 19, 2025
14 min read
And some more serious findings – including a great reading list – from our survey of 53 experts
Dec 17, 2025
26 min read
Just because it’s "intelligent" doesn’t mean it’s always right
Dec 15, 2025
23 min read
Plus: tools for analyzing Reddit and visualizing network graphs.
Dec 12, 2025
This year, powerful people, companies, and institutions welcomed digital deception like never before. The rest of us faced the consequences.
Dec 9, 2025
30 min read
Plus: free tools for analyzing ads and extracting links and emails, and X gets fined by the EU.
Dec 5, 2025
17 min read
Deplatforming the companies, debilitating the technology, and deterring the users
Dec 4, 2025
24 min read
Why are Japan’s amateur fact-checkers doing better on X?
Dec 1, 2025
Plus: new and updated OSINT bookmarklets to help with your investigations.
Nov 28, 2025
Plus: Sri Lanka's "Facebook ads king", and advanced archival OSINT
Nov 21, 2025
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
