Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman

Workshop video: Monitoring keywords and webpages

Workshop video: Monitoring keywords and webpages

Free tools and techniques.

Nov 02 26November 02, 2026

Article at Indicator

Briefing: Discord gets more discoverable

Briefing: Discord gets more discoverable

Plus: LLMs for geolocation and disinformation about the US midterms.

Oct 30 26October 30, 2026

Article at Indicator

Webinar video: Investigating with AI agents

Webinar video: Investigating with AI agents

And a special offer for you

Oct 29 26October 29, 2026

Article at Indicator

Meta told Chinese microdrama apps where its "red lines" were. More than 100,000 explicit ads crossed them.

Meta told Chinese microdrama apps where its "red lines" were. More than 100,000 explicit ads crossed them.

Meta has spent years courting the Chinese publishers behind the microdrama boom. Some of their ads featured rape, violent sexual imagery, and “werewolf gangbangs.”

Oct 27 26October 27, 2026

Article at Indicator

Briefing: Preparing for US election disinformation

Briefing: Preparing for US election disinformation

Plus: a new tool for searching online archives and a Google Analytics trick.

Oct 23 26October 23, 2026

Article at Indicator

Briefing: X handed fact-checking to the crowd. Then it became the crowd.

Briefing: X handed fact-checking to the crowd. Then it became the crowd.

Plus: A new image analysis tool and a list of companies selling AI training data.

Oct 16 26October 16, 2026

Article at Indicator

Show & Tell: How BBC Verify's Shayan Sardarizadeh checks everything for AI

Show & Tell: How BBC Verify's Shayan Sardarizadeh checks everything for AI

“I don’t trust anything,” he told us

Oct 15 26October 15, 2026

Article at Indicator

[Free webinar] OSINT Agents: using AI to assist with digital investigations

[Free webinar] OSINT Agents: using AI to assist with digital investigations

Join us Oct. 28 to learn about using AI agents in digital investigations.

Oct 14 26October 14, 2026

Article at Indicator

28 OSINT tips and tools I learned at USC's Open Source Journalism Conference

28 OSINT tips and tools I learned at USC's Open Source Journalism Conference

A new GitHub investigation tool, free satellite imagery, radar that sees through clouds, and two Google dorks that uncovered key information.

Oct 13 26October 13, 2026

Article at Indicator

Briefing: US interferes in the name of non-interference

Briefing: US interferes in the name of non-interference

Plus: a Telegram search tool, and tracing traffic in satellite imagery.

Oct 09 26October 09, 2026

Article at Indicator

Workshop video: Finding hidden connections with digital ad data

Workshop video: Finding hidden connections with digital ad data

No technical expertise required.

Oct 05 26October 05, 2026

Article at Indicator

Briefing: Grokipedia is back (kinda)

Briefing: Grokipedia is back (kinda)

Plus: How to detect changes in satellite imagery, and a fact-checking skill for your AI platform.

Oct 02 26October 02, 2026

Article at Indicator

The Indicator Lab is live!

The Indicator Lab is live!

Everything you need to run investigations with AI.

Oct 01 26October 01, 2026

Article at Indicator

Reddit OSINT: What still works for search, monitoring, and archives

Reddit OSINT: What still works for search, monitoring, and archives

Three years of restrictions broke many useful Reddit tools. Here's what you can still rely on.

Sep 28 26September 28, 2026

Article at Indicator

Briefing: UK's new anti-disinfo unit

Briefing: UK's new anti-disinfo unit

Plus: tools for analyzing satellite imagery, domains, corporate networks, and more.

Sep 25 26September 25, 2026

Article at Indicator

The Indicator Guide to investigating digital ad supply chains

The Indicator Guide to investigating digital ad supply chains

How to use DecryptAds and urlscan.io to map ad relationships, identify likely site owners, and find where ads have run.

Sep 22 26September 22, 2026

Article at Indicator

Briefing: ChatGPT for spotting scams

Briefing: ChatGPT for spotting scams

Plus: Extracting useful info from Wayback Machine captures, and a new foreign interference dashboard.

Sep 18 26September 18, 2026

Article at Indicator

Show & Tell: Renée DiResta on how she discovered that Grokipedia stopped updating its entries

Show & Tell: Renée DiResta on how she discovered that Grokipedia stopped updating its entries

Using AI to investigate Musk’s AI encyclopedia

Sep 17 26September 17, 2026

Article at Indicator

Briefing: Apple tackles AI photo fakes

Briefing: Apple tackles AI photo fakes

Plus: How to find the owner of a Stripe checkout page, and a major report on slopaganda.

Sep 11 26September 11, 2026

Article at Indicator

Workshop video: Build your own investigative tools

Workshop video: Build your own investigative tools

No code, no problem

Sep 07 26September 07, 2026

Article at Indicator

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