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Briefing
Jul 3, 2026
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6 min read
Plus: Tools for genealogy research, Facebook profile analysis, image metadata analysis, and more.
Jun 26, 2026
4 min read
Plus: search the Chinese web like a pro, and tools for YouTube and emails.
Jun 19, 2026
5 min read
Plus: using AI agents for investigations and OSINT techniques for Telegram.
Jun 12, 2026
Plus: Venmo OSINT, a tool to calculate the height of a building, and Polymarket payola.
Jun 5, 2026
Plus: Google's document analysis tool goes public, and the wrong way to train LLMs for debunking.
May 29, 2026
Plus: Extracting emails from GitHub accounts, and news about that viral image of Thai police disguised as dancers.
May 22, 2026
Plus: the FTC warns nudifier apps, and why AI models repeat falsehoods.
May 15, 2026
Plus: Misinformation researchers take the Trump administration to court over visa bans, and more.
May 8, 2026
7 min read
Plus: the EU takes a big step towards banning AI nudifiers, and a fake Muslim candidate generating real hate.
May 1, 2026
Plus: We added roughly 2,000 tools to OSINT Navigator.
Apr 24, 2026
Plus: the UK tries to take on deepfakes, and the FTC and NewsGuard continue to tangle.
Apr 17, 2026
Plus: X pays clickbait accounts a little less
Apr 10, 2026
15 min read
Plus: How to extract account info and other data from shared URLs.
Apr 3, 2026
13 min read
Plus: How to set up a custom RSS feed for the Internet Archive, and tools for geolocation.
Mar 27, 2026
17 min read
Plus: Tools for Telegram, geolocation, and running AI models locally.
AI labels
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Mar 20, 2026
12 min read
Plus: Meta is still making money from AI nudifiers
Mar 13, 2026
16 min read
Plus: How *not* to use photo forensics tools and the best way to vet browser extensions.
Mar 6, 2026
18 min read
Plus: Check out our redesigned and updated Academic Library and a bunch of new OSINT tools
Feb 27, 2026
9 min read
Plus: how to view tweets without logging in, investigate ecommerce sites, and more.
Feb 20, 2026
11 min read
Plus: updates to tools for inspecting websites and analyzing Telegram.
Community Notes
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Feb 13, 2026
10 min read
Plus: Tools for counting crowd size and generating Google Dorks.
Feb 6, 2026
Plus: a world map of OSINT tools and methods for investigating GitHub.
Jan 30, 2026
Plus: A tool for AI-powered company searches, and news sites are blocking the Internet Archive's crawlers.
Jan 23, 2026
Plus: The best tool to download videos from YouTube and other sites.
Jan 16, 2026
8 min read
Plus: The US Senate passed a law allowing victims of nonconsensual deepfake nudes to sue their abusers.
