Briefing

Feb 20, 2026

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11 min read

Briefing: New deepfake rules go into effect in India

Plus: updates to tools for inspecting websites and analyzing Telegram.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Feb 13, 2026

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10 min read

Briefing: Tracking the AI takeover of Community Notes

Plus: Tools for counting crowd size and generating Google Dorks.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Feb 6, 2026

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11 min read

Briefing: X wants humans and AI to fact-check together

Plus: a world map of OSINT tools and methods for investigating GitHub.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Jan 30, 2026

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9 min read

Briefing: Misleading video turns Italy’s PM into unlikely anti-American icon

Plus: A tool for AI-powered company searches, and news sites are blocking the Internet Archive's crawlers.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Jan 23, 2026

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10 min read

Briefing: YouTube CEO promises to tackle AI slop

Plus: The best tool to download videos from YouTube and other sites.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Jan 16, 2026

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8 min read

Briefing: New tool checks when a website was created

Plus: The US Senate passed a law allowing victims of nonconsensual deepfake nudes to sue their abusers.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Jan 9, 2026

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16 min read

Briefing: Grok brings nonconsensual image abuse to the masses

Plus: a new feature in the Meta Ad Library and a new Telegram investigation tool.

Craig Silverman, +1

Briefing

Dec 31, 2025

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11 min read

Briefing: US State Dept restricts disinfo researchers, welcomes back a propagandist

Plus: a new reverse image search tool, tips for cleaning up your digital footprint, and law firms discover AI slop.

Craig Silverman, +1

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

Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation

Craig Silverman, +1