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I'm the co-founder of Indicator and have been investigating digital deception for more than a decade.
Plus: LLMs for geolocation and disinformation about the US midterms.
Oct 30, 2026
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5 min read
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Oct 29, 2026
1 min read
Meta has spent years courting the Chinese publishers behind the microdrama boom. Some of their ads featured rape, violent sexual imagery, and “werewolf gangbangs.”
Oct 27, 2026
8 min read
Plus: a new tool for searching online archives and a Google Analytics trick.
Oct 23, 2026
Plus: A new image analysis tool and a list of companies selling AI training data.
Oct 16, 2026
9 min read
“I don’t trust anything,” he told us
Oct 15, 2026
2 min read
Join us Oct. 28 to learn about using AI agents in digital investigations.
Oct 14, 2026
A new GitHub investigation tool, free satellite imagery, radar that sees through clouds, and two Google dorks that uncovered key information.
Oct 13, 2026
Plus: a Telegram search tool, and tracing traffic in satellite imagery.
Oct 9, 2026
7 min read
No technical expertise required.
Oct 5, 2026
Plus: How to detect changes in satellite imagery, and a fact-checking skill for your AI platform.
Oct 2, 2026
6 min read
Everything you need to run investigations with AI.
Oct 1, 2026
Three years of restrictions broke many useful Reddit tools. Here's what you can still rely on.
Sep 28, 2026
13 min read
Plus: tools for analyzing satellite imagery, domains, corporate networks, and more.
Sep 25, 2026
How to use DecryptAds and urlscan.io to map ad relationships, identify likely site owners, and find where ads have run.
Sep 22, 2026
16 min read
Plus: Extracting useful info from Wayback Machine captures, and a new foreign interference dashboard.
Sep 18, 2026
Using AI to investigate Musk’s AI encyclopedia
Sep 17, 2026
Plus: How to find the owner of a Stripe checkout page, and a major report on slopaganda.
Sep 11, 2026
4 min read
No code, no problem
Sep 7, 2026
Plus: fake journalists on YouTube, and what X's takedown of a Chinese info op left out.
Sep 4, 2026
What each tool does for free, which ones are worth your time, and how to monitor a site without the owner noticing.
Aug 31, 2026
11 min read
Plus: new tools for searching usernames and tracking satellite imagery.
Aug 28, 2026
How investigators with no coding skills use AI to build tools for their own work.
Aug 24, 2026
24 min read
Plus: fact-checking the midterms and tracking Russian flights in Africa.
Aug 21, 2026
Fake trades, fake websites, and inauthentic amplification
Aug 19, 2026