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I'm the co-founder of Indicator and have been investigating digital deception for more than a decade.
Plus: How to find the owner of a Stripe checkout page, and a major report on slopaganda.
Sep 11, 2026
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4 min read
No code, no problem
Sep 7, 2026
1 min read
Plus: fake journalists on YouTube, and what X's takedown of a Chinese info op left out.
Sep 4, 2026
5 min read
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
8 min read
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
7 min read
Fake trades, fake websites, and inauthentic amplification
Aug 19, 2026
2 min read
Highlights include a bot that profiles Telegram users, a catalogue of public databases, and a former private investigator's advice on getting strangers to talk.
Aug 17, 2026
10 min read
Plus: Spotify's new AI labels, and how to locate hidden security cameras.
Aug 14, 2026
6 min read
Plus: A new free global company lookup tool and doing OSINT on online marketplaces.
Aug 7, 2026
We analyzed +12,000 tools across 19 public OSINT toolkits. Here's what the community suggests most
Aug 3, 2026
Plus: Tools for tracking foreign interference and LinkedIn launches "AI slop" button
Jul 31, 2026
9 min read
How to know what you have
Jul 29, 2026
Plus: free guides to OPSEC and investigating crypto, and a tool that can search across +200 archives.
Jul 24, 2026
A repeatable method for weighing the indicators in an OSINT investigation and telling the genuine leads from the fakes, the dead ends, and the merely common.
Jul 20, 2026
29 min read
Plus: A breakdown of 150 OSINT tools, and a free dashboard for analyzing Polymarket.
Jul 17, 2026
Researcher Hal Triedman explained how a few words on Reddit can fool an AI research agent, and shared tools for investigating Wikipedia
Jul 15, 2026
Plus: Tools for genealogy research, Facebook profile analysis, image metadata analysis, and more.
Jul 3, 2026
Plus: how to connect an LLM to Obsidian for investigative work
Jun 29, 2026
Plus: search the Chinese web like a pro, and tools for YouTube and emails.
Jun 26, 2026
How to surface sealed court cases, trace crypto for free, unmask anonymous companies, and use a new tool to search documents in a powerful way.
Jun 22, 2026
Plus: using AI agents for investigations and OSINT techniques for Telegram.
Jun 19, 2026
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
The free apps, browser extensions, and OPSEC tools investigators install first.
Jun 15, 2026
