Today on @indicator.media’s free Briefing: Google ran ads on search results for queries about removing nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII).
Most of the ads promoted generic content removal products that don’t provide a tailored service for NCII. Most importantly, all of them are paid services.
New on @indicator.media:
With @mattburgess1.bsky.social at @wired.com, I built a map of the reported cases where AI was used to create nonconsensual intimate imagery within schools around the globe.
Was fun to contribute to this great, free training initiative from GIJN!
I would absolutely love to know who Adam Back thinks is Satoshi, and to hear his reasoning.
I’ve been mulling the Times piece and I think one important critique is that the story compared writing but did not compare code. Satoshi and Back have written a decent amount of code. People have pointed out that the styles are different & Back isn’t as strong in the language used for Bitcoin…
I’m very wealthy and fabulous
Agree the NYT piece is not a smoking gun. But seems to be a strong case. Do you have alt theories? I’m not very steeped in the Satoshi lore
It would always have presented a trail for investigation. I def would not have had the self control to sit on it, but then again I’m not a crypto, ecash, and privacy genius!
Very rude of him to not send me any bitcoin tbh
But if any of that bitcoin gets spent, it will set off a massive hunt to see where to goes. So if Satoshi is alive he’s kind of trapped. And Back is wealthy enough to not need to spend it. Plus, if he really is Satoshi then he likely has his own personal Bitcoin stash outside of Satoshi’s.
Pretty surprising to wake up and discover that a guy I worked with at a tech company in Montreal is likely Satoshi Nakamoto: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...
We did a great podcast with @koltai.bsky.social where she walked through the tools and techniques used to expose the infrastructure and people behind abusive AI nudifier websites. It's a fun OSINT tutorial about holding awful people accountable:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn58...
On the pod, @craigsilverman.bsky.social, Craig’s cat Rosie, and I walked thru these investigations with Kolina.
Kolina showed us how she uses tools like DNSlytics, DomainTools, and OpenCorporates to connect nefarious websites together and reveal their ultimate owner(s).
Check it out!
Great to talk to @craigsilverman.bsky.social from @indicator.media about why 2026 is a year of change in the beneficial ownership world - and what it means for people trying to find out the real owners of companies and trusts
indicator.media/p/finding-th...
#beneficialownership #OSINT #GODIN
I bet you a loonie that Musk’s embrace of "unreliable information" -- actual false news – "extreme hyperpartisan rhetoric," "AI slop, & sexualized imagery" will both undermine AND derail Bier’s product roadmap, @craigsilverman.bsky.social: it's a structural conflict. indicator.media/p/briefing-x...
Today's free Briefing looks at how Musk's embrace of extreme politics and slop threatens to derail X's product roadmap.
We also cover essential news and tools for digital investigators: Telegram search, a geolocation model you can run locally, and more.
indicator.media/p/briefing-x...
Wrote up a little guide to building your own reverse image search engine for @indicator.media, steered by the brilliant fellow
@towcenter.bsky.social alum @craigsilverman.bsky.social: indicator.media/p/the-indica...
Cool guide out today on @indicator.media!
Reverse image search is a valuable verification tool. But sometimes you want to search within an image bank that is not public.
@ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social explains how to do it:
NEW on @indicator.media:
Tech companies have promised to help limit the damage to online truth-seeking by labeling AI content.
But Indicator's latest audit found that this labeling infrastructure has multiple failure points
A real doctor hid behind a pseudonym to flood social media with AI-generated health slop — and sell books off the back of it.
He accumulated tens of millions of views & millions of followers and sold books like "Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally.” New investigation:
indicator.media/p/a-real-doc...
Folks, this is best edition of our free newsletter that we’ve ever published. Absolutely jam packed with insights, analysis, and tools to make you a smarter consumer and investigator of digital information. Check it out:
Check out the latest episode of @indicator.media Show & Tell!
Maldita.es has been doing some incredible work investigating scams, disinformation, and worse on the biggest tech platforms.
So Craig and I got @cjimenezcruz.bsky.social to walk us through three of them, spreadsheets in hand.
Toronto's @thestar.com sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of the podcast network that @indicator.media wrote about on Wednesday. He has promised to reverse course.
www.thestar.com/opinion/publ...
It’s absolutely a challenge and concern!
They unfortunately often won’t comment on specific accounts. Meta said what action they took at the time but didn’t explain why some accounts were left untouched.
We appreciate your patronage!
Here's a video about my recent investigation into more than two dozen accounts using AI-generated doctors and health professionals to push dubious advice and sell products on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube: indicator.media/p/ai-generat...
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I found an AI-generated podcast network that has published 350,000 episodes in the past month. That's 11,000 episodes a day, or about one year's worth of audio content.
You'll be shocked to find out it's not generating original material.
Ecommerce fraud is rampant. It's also easy to launch and hard to trace.
My new guide to investigating ecommerce sites covers how to ID the store platform, trace ownership, analyze traffic, do a safe test purchase etc. I also found a few free, new-to-me tools: indicator.media/p/the-indica...
Last week I speculated that by the end of the year a majority of “helpful” Community Notes on X could be AI-generated.
To monitor this sorry milestone (and rate my forecasting abilities), I decided to build a free dashboard that tracks the share of AI notes. Check it out on @indicator.media
