Briefing
Dec 5, 2025
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17 min read
Plus: free tools for analyzing ads and extracting links and emails, and X gets fined by the EU.
Nov 28, 2025
8 min read
Plus: new and updated OSINT bookmarklets to help with your investigations.
Nov 21, 2025
12 min read
Plus: Sri Lanka's "Facebook ads king", and advanced archival OSINT
Nov 14, 2025
Plus: we unlocked our paywalled Q&A with the CEO of GeoSpy, an AI-powered geolocation tool.
Nov 7, 2025
14 min read
Plus: Fox News falls for racist AI slop, and a tool for investigating Discord servers.
Oct 31, 2025
Plus: an easy way to search for objects within a video and a new web reconnaissance tool
X
+1
Oct 24, 2025
Plus: how to create a free, private AI setup
+3
Oct 17, 2025
Plus: a new free OSINT bookmarklet that helps you investigate WordPress sites
+2
Oct 10, 2025
9 min read
Plus: tools for tracking sketchy ships, viewing JSON files, and more
AI slop
Oct 3, 2025
Plus: changes to Facebook search that you need to know about
Sep 26, 2025
Plus: Spotify rolls out anti-slop measures, and inside Russia's copycat "fact-checking" group
Community Notes
Sep 19, 2025
Plus: Tools for archiving YouTube videos, identifying manhole covers, and scanning scam infrastructure
Sep 12, 2025
13 min read
Plus: A tool for YouTube and Joe Rogan doubles down after falling for an AI-generated image
Sep 5, 2025
Plus: chatbots are providing inaccurate info, are susceptible to flattery and peer pressure
Aug 29, 2025
Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation
Aug 22, 2025
Plus: Why a fact checking outlet ditched labels like "false" and "satire" in favor of a new approach
Impersonation
+4
Aug 15, 2025
Plus: a US academic explains why he's done with researching misinformation
Aug 8, 2025
Plus: AI-generated Jorge Ramos is spreading false claims about Donald Trump's health on TikTok
+5
Aug 1, 2025
Plus: humans suck at spotting AI-generated images
Jul 25, 2025
10 min read
Plus: AI is ushering in a global fraud crisis and new research about YouTube and ChatGPT
Jul 18, 2025
7 min read
Plus: how therapy chatbots fuel delusions, and X tries to explain Grok's Nazi turn
Jul 11, 2025
Plus: A look at Community Notes en español, how to jailbreak LLMs with fake citations, and a Google dork generator
OSINT
Jul 4, 2025
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.
Username enumeration
Jun 27, 2025
11 min read
Plus, a new feature in OpenAleph, Elon fights Grok, and John Oliver on AI slop
Jun 20, 2025
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