Resources
X
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Nov 26, 2025
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18 min read
What investigators need to know about X’s new “About this account” feature
X account location information is nuanced and tricky. Here's how to evaluate it.
Snapchat
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Oct 7, 2025
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2 min read
How to tell if a social media account is monetized
Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and X are giving billions to creators. Here's how to see who's getting paid
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
Cash App
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Aug 4, 2025
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2 min read
How bookmarklets can reveal hidden online profile info and speed up OSINT investigations
A guide to using the free bookmarklets offered by My OSINT Training
AI slop
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Jul 16, 2025
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3 min read
A tentative taxonomy of AI slop
Slop is everywhere, but not all of it is the same
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 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
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Jun 9, 2025
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4 min read
OSINT case study: How a single Facebook Marketplace ad helped uncover a network of scam domains
Let's dive into domain-generating algorithms and connecting websites via shared URLs, html titles, and favicons
