OSINT
OSINT
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Sep 22, 2025
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2 min read
OSINT tips for investigating WordPress sites
How to find author accounts and inspect images, files, and plugins
OSINT
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Sep 17, 2025
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35 min read
The Indicator Guide to tools for capturing webpages and social media content
We tested 12 tools ranging from full-featured continuous capture apps to one-off screenshot extensions for grabbing long webpages
OSINT
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Sep 8, 2025
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2 min read
Why is GitHub restricting accounts that share OSINT and dark web resources?
At least half a dozen repos or entire accounts were recently banned or blocked from public access
OSINT
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Aug 26, 2025
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2 min read
3 free or affordable social media monitoring tools for your OSINT toolkit
These tools can help fill some of the void left by CrowdTangle (RIP)
OSINT
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Jul 22, 2025
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3 min read
How repurposed YouTube channels spread misinformation and undermine platform integrity — and how to identify them
A new study identified thousands of YouTube channels that changed their name, description and content focus, typically after being sold to a new owner.
OSINT
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Jul 9, 2025
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1 min read
5 new (to me) OSINT tools for researching YouTube, Meta ads, and more
How to find out if a YouTube video is monetized, analyze election and social issues ads in new ways, and refine your Google queries
OSINT
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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.
OSINT
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Jul 2, 2025
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2 min read
Workshop Video: Hunting fake online reviews and no-code scraping
Here's the video, notes, slides and transcript of our first workshop
OSINT
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Jun 26, 2025
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38 min read
The Indicator Guide to connecting websites together using OSINT tools and methods
A deep dive into new and established ways to fingerprint site content and infrastructure, link sites via ad and analytics IDs/tags, favicons, and more
AI slop
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Jun 20, 2025
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14 min read
Briefing: Elon Musk's rare Community Notes and AI slop everywhere
Your must reads and must tries on the digital deception beat this week
OSINT
+5
May 30, 2025
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10 min read
May 30 Briefing: X Community Notes goes down and new tool fools running apps
Your must reads and must tries on the digital deception beat this week
OSINT
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May 23, 2025
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10 min read
Indicator Briefing (May 23, 2025)
Your must reads and must tries on the digital deception beat this week
OSINT
+6
May 19, 2025
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7 min read
A global scam network used fake reviews to lure customers. Here’s how you can investigate them
Google told Indicator it has referred the Pakistan-based network to the DOJ, and TrustPilot deleted reviews after we reached out
OSINT
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Apr 28, 2025
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3 min read
Tools and tips round up: Using favicons in investigations, analyzing GitHub repos, and an InVID update
Plus: a LinkedIn tip
OSINT
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Dec 30, 2024
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2 min read
Tools and tips round up: A new way to use OpenStreetMap and tools for Wikipedia, Telegram and more
Plus: guides for investigative journalism and for using OSINT for Bluesky.
OSINT
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Nov 26, 2024
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2 min read
A guide to tools for searching and using Bluesky
Bluesky is surging, so here's a rundown of tools and search operators to use on the platform.
OSINT
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Oct 3, 2024
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2 min read
Tools and tips round up: Finding deleted tweets and new tools from Bellingcat
Plus: upcoming free and paid workshops.
OSINT
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Sep 5, 2024
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2 min read
A look at the Information Laundromat website analysis tool
The Alliance For Securing Democracy created a free OSINT tool to examine the content and metadata of websites
OSINT
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Jun 21, 2024
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7 min read
Tools and tips round up: A new Google search filter and two guides to open source research
Plus: Analyzing shadows, tools for Telegram, and more!
OSINT
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May 31, 2024
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10 min read
A guide to investigating digital ad libraries
How to dig into ad libraries from Google, Meta and other platforms to track spending, narratives, campaigns and more
OSINT
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Apr 18, 2024
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9 min read
Tools and tips round up: Email investigations, digging into payment gateways, and more
Plus: Google's new image search tool, tipsheets for search engines, shell companies, map investigations, and Telegram.
