Briefing

Dec 19, 2025

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14 min read

Briefing: Meta's fraudulent ad pipeline flows from China to you

Plus: tools of the year and what OSINT practitioners need to know about AI videos

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Dec 12, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: Liam Neeson narrated an antivax documentary

Plus: tools for analyzing Reddit and visualizing network graphs.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Dec 5, 2025

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17 min read

Briefing: Trump administration wants to ban foreign fact-checkers and online safety workers

Plus: free tools for analyzing ads and extracting links and emails, and X gets fined by the EU.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Nov 28, 2025

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8 min read

Briefing: A Mexican journalists' club promotes Russian disinformation

Plus: new and updated OSINT bookmarklets to help with your investigations.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Nov 21, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: Good news on the AI slop front. No, really!

Plus: Sri Lanka's "Facebook ads king", and advanced archival OSINT

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Nov 14, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: Facebook hoax merchant gets "Truthed" by Trump

Plus: we unlocked our paywalled Q&A with the CEO of GeoSpy, an AI-powered geolocation tool.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Nov 7, 2025

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14 min read

Briefing: Meta's multi-billion dollar scam ad business

Plus: Fox News falls for racist AI slop, and a tool for investigating Discord servers.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Oct 31, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: Grokipedia applies a right-wing filter to Wikipedia

Plus: an easy way to search for objects within a video and a new web reconnaissance tool

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing: People are posting fake images of an X feature that hasn't launched yet

Oct 24, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: People are posting fake images of an X feature that hasn't launched yet

Plus: how to create a free, private AI setup

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing: X tests new way to fight inauthentic activity and a major scam takedown

Oct 17, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: X tests new way to fight inauthentic activity and a major scam takedown

Plus: a new free OSINT bookmarklet that helps you investigate WordPress sites

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Oct 10, 2025

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9 min read

Briefing: YouTube gives banned channels a second chance

Plus: tools for tracking sketchy ships, viewing JSON files, and more

Craig Silverman, +1

AI slop

Briefing: Sloppy Sora surges on the charts

Oct 3, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: Sloppy Sora surges on the charts

Plus: changes to Facebook search that you need to know about

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Sep 26, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: YouTube bends the knee

Plus: Spotify rolls out anti-slop measures, and inside Russia's copycat "fact-checking" group

Craig Silverman, +1

Community Notes

Sep 19, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: Finally, some data about Meta's Community Notes program

Plus: Tools for archiving YouTube videos, identifying manhole covers, and scanning scam infrastructure

Craig Silverman, +1

AI slop

Briefing: “The brakes are completely off at Meta”

Sep 12, 2025

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13 min read

Briefing: “The brakes are completely off at Meta”

Plus: A tool for YouTube and Joe Rogan doubles down after falling for an AI-generated image

Craig Silverman, +1

AI slop

Briefing: Australia moves to ban nudifiers and approaches for verifying AI images

Sep 5, 2025

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9 min read

Briefing: Australia moves to ban nudifiers and approaches for verifying AI images

Plus: chatbots are providing inaccurate info, are susceptible to flattery and peer pressure

Craig Silverman, +1

AI slop

Briefing: AI comes for fashion and a tool for guessing email addresses

Aug 29, 2025

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9 min read

Briefing: AI comes for fashion and a tool for guessing email addresses

Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Aug 22, 2025

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9 min read

Briefing: A resurgence of anti-vaxx misinfo and testing AI tools for research

Plus: Why a fact checking outlet ditched labels like "false" and "satire" in favor of a new approach

Craig Silverman, +1

Impersonation

Briefing: AI chatbots gone wild and tips for investigating X and VSCO

Aug 15, 2025

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9 min read

Briefing: AI chatbots gone wild and tips for investigating X and VSCO

Plus: a US academic explains why he's done with researching misinformation

Craig Silverman, +1

AI slop

Briefing: More AI nudifier ads on Meta and two new investigation guides

Aug 8, 2025

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9 min read

Briefing: More AI nudifier ads on Meta and two new investigation guides

Plus: AI-generated Jorge Ramos is spreading false claims about Donald Trump's health on TikTok

Craig Silverman, +1

AI slop

Briefing: TikTok crowdsources moderation and tools for searching YouTube and Google

Aug 1, 2025

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9 min read

Briefing: TikTok crowdsources moderation and tools for searching YouTube and Google

Plus: humans suck at spotting AI-generated images

Craig Silverman, +1

AI slop

Briefing: A new tool for detecting AI images, the Macrons sue Candace Owens and more

Jul 25, 2025

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10 min read

Briefing: A new tool for detecting AI images, the Macrons sue Candace Owens and more

Plus: AI is ushering in a global fraud crisis and new research about YouTube and ChatGPT

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing: Scammers use deepfakes to impersonate police and a free guide to AI red teaming

Jul 18, 2025

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7 min read

Briefing: Scammers use deepfakes to impersonate police and a free guide to AI red teaming

Plus: how therapy chatbots fuel delusions, and X tries to explain Grok's Nazi turn

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Jul 11, 2025

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8 min read

Briefing: Grok goes on a Nazi bender and YouTube hints it will go after AI slop

Plus: A look at Community Notes en español, how to jailbreak LLMs with fake citations, and a Google dork generator

Craig Silverman, +1

OSINT

Briefing: AI bots join Community Notes and Clothoff whistleblower speaks

Jul 4, 2025

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10 min read

Briefing: AI bots join Community Notes and Clothoff whistleblower speaks

Plus: Academics try fighting AI peer reviews with hidden prompts, SCOTUS refuses to review case against fact-checkers, and a tool that lets you search X without being logged in.

Craig Silverman, +1