Craig Silverman

I found companies that rent out ID-verified LinkedIn profiles — often of "attractive women" — in order to send thousands of DMs a day. One firm promised 10,000 messages per account, per month. Inside the black market for fake-authentic outreach: https://t.co/VFTFDHbfih

The deepfake nudes epidemic is getting worse. Our latest at Indicator reveals nudifier apps can take a single photo of a person and turn it into a pic of them in a sex pose or an explicit video. And the apps are still advertising on platforms like Meta: https://t.co/1NJ7JQwyQv

RT @MollyThomasTV: Our @BigIfTrueTVO season finale airs tonight at 8 PM ET with insights from @CraigSilverman @patrickdell @valeriekindarji…

Ad libraries from Meta, Google and other platforms can be incredibly useful for reporting and investigations. Track campaigns and narratives, hunt for disinfo & scams, and more. Here's the Indicator guide to using and investigating ad libraries: https://t.co/RsP1l2jwJl #OSINT

Our free Friday Briefing has: 📍 Exclusive data about the recent Community Notes outage 📍 OSINT tools & tips for Discord, investigating companies, prompting LLMs 📍 New research on AI, scams, fake accounts on X 📍 Lots more! Read it: https://t.co/4rJ7SvxrPI #OSINT

There are more web-based facial recognition tools than ever. But what do we know about them? I uncovered surprising info about 9 services: 🔎 One is run from Iran 🔎 One uses pics of fake customers 🔎 Some won't say who owns them More: https://t.co/xKlrg98usk #OSINT

The Wayback Machine is an indispensable tool for archiving web content. It's also a powerful search engine that can dig up deleted webpages and social media posts. Here's the Indicator guide to getting the most out of the Wayback machine: https://t.co/EwOBVZz0ZM

Our free weekly Briefing highlighted 10 new or updated 10 OSINT tools/tips: 📍 Searching for text in NYC Google Street View images 📍 Using chatbots/LLMs to analyze images 📍 A new tool to search across YouTube comments Subscribe for free to read it: https://t.co/j4vv5TA5Oj

RT @mediagazer: Q&A with Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis on their new newsletter, the Indicator, which covers misinformation and mor…

Personal news: Friday was my last day @ ProPublica. It was a thrill to work in such a great newsroom. More news soon about what's next. Feel free to reach out about working together or workshops for your org! Sub to my newsletter to follow my next steps: https://t.co/XMAZVzAPB3

RT @propublica: New: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it's revamping a program to pay bonuses to cr…

RT @eisingerj: Hegseth has said that he got into West Point but didn’t attend. We asked West Pt public affairs, which told us twice on the…