Peter Benzoni

Nov 8, 2024 | gijn.org | Peter Benzoni

I love investigating websites. I wrote a chapter about it for the most recent edition of the Verification Handbook and I’m always looking for new tools and methods to connect sites together, identify owners, and to analyze site content, infrastructure, and behavior. The Information Laundromat is open source and available on the Alliance for Securing Democracy’s GitHub account. The Information Laundromat is one of the newest and most interesting free website analysis tools I’ve come across.

Sep 5, 2024 | digitalinvestigations.substack.com | Craig Silverman |Peter Benzoni

I love investigating websites. I wrote a chapter about it for the most recent edition of the Verification Handbook and I’m always looking for new tools and methods to connect sites together, identify owners, and to analyze site content, infrastructure, and behavior. The Information Laundromat is one of the newest and most interesting free website analysis tools I’ve come across. Developed by the George Marshall Fund’s Alliance For Securing Democracy, it can analyze content and metadata.

Jul 23, 2024 | securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Krystyna Sikora |Peter Benzoni

IntroductionIn the days after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a torrent of false and misleading information about the attack flooded social media.

Nov 28, 2023 | securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Krystyna Sikora |Peter Benzoni

Since coming to power in 2015, Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party has eroded media freedom and pluralism, taking over public media and hindering independent outlets. While PiS’s control of the information environment via television, radio, and print is well documented, it has been unknown whether state-backed media and state-friendly narratives similarly dominate search engines.

Nov 2, 2023 | securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Peter Benzoni |Joseph Bodnar

Since 2019, the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF has operated the Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, an online tool to track messaging originating from Chinese, Iranian, and Russian state media and government officials. In its time, the dashboard collected several million data points, mostly but not exclusively from Twitter (now X).