Get your machine set up for OSINT

The free apps, browser extensions, and OPSEC tools investigators install first.

Briefing: Google liable for false AI Overviews, German court finds

Plus: Venmo OSINT, a tool to calculate the height of a building, and Polymarket payola.

I got inside a North Korean hiring scam. What I found reveals a troubling shift in tactics

DPRK hackers hired unwitting freelancers in the Philippines, Nigeria, and Colombia to put a human face on a malware operation — and make fake companies feel real.

Briefing: Meta's AI support nightmare

Plus: Google's document analysis tool goes public, and the wrong way to train LLMs for debunking.

Workshop video: AI skills for investigators

Briefing: YouTube stops hiding its AI labels

Plus: Extracting emails from GitHub accounts, and news about that viral image of Thai police disguised as dancers.

Tips for images, geolocation, and visualization that I learned from 5 OSINT videos

A satellite imagery cheat sheet, enhancing images, and selecting the right visualization tools for analysis and reports.

Briefing: New tools for AI image verification

Plus: the FTC warns nudifier apps, and why AI models repeat falsehoods.

The Indicator Guide to Using Skills in Chrome for OSINT

Three ready-to-install browser prompts for analyzing social media profiles, extracting entities from webpages, and assessing images — plus how to build your own.

Briefing: Adapting to satellite imagery blackouts

Plus: Misinformation researchers take the Trump administration to court over visa bans, and more.

Show & Tell: How Amnesty International collects evidence from war zones for visual investigations

We talked with Barbara Marcolini of Amnesty International about how she documented the Israeli military’s destruction of civilian infrastructure in southern Lebanon

Earth Index: A step-by-step guide to searching satellite imagery with AI

How to set up a project, label samples, and search for matching structures and landscape features across the planet.

Briefing: How researchers identified over 400 people in the Epstein Files

Plus: the EU takes a big step towards banning AI nudifiers, and a fake Muslim candidate generating real hate.

Workshop video: Finding the true owner of a company

We covered tips and tools for uncovering beneficial ownership

Briefing: Spotify says it will verify human artists (for now)

Plus: We added roughly 2,000 tools to OSINT Navigator.

19 free tools you can use to investigate a URL

Tools and techniques for digging into links, redirects, parameters, and more.

Briefing: Popular OSINT tool gets a mysterious new owner

Plus: the UK tries to take on deepfakes, and the FTC and NewsGuard continue to tangle.

Briefing: Google shows ads when people search for help removing intimate images

Plus: X pays clickbait accounts a little less

OSINT Navigator is now publicly available

Search 7,500+ OSINT tools to find the right one for your investigation.

Briefing: You may be listening to AI music without knowing it

Plus: How to extract account info and other data from shared URLs.

Workshop video: Investigating ecommerce sites

We covered tips and tools for digging into online stores

I analyzed 38 "situation monitoring" dashboards. Here are the ones worth using (and what many get wrong)

Plus options to customize your own

Briefing: What Zuckerberg and Rubio Mean by "Free Speech"

Plus: How to set up a custom RSS feed for the Internet Archive, and tools for geolocation.

Show & Tell: How Bellingcat's Kolina Koltai unmasked some of the worst people on the internet

We talked about her work exposing the networks behind non-consensual deepfake pornography

Finding the real owner of a company: a guide to beneficial ownership in the EU, UK, and beyond

2026 could be a turning point for universal beneficial ownership data. Here's what investigators need to know.