In May's Show & Tell, @craigsilverman.bsky.social and I are joined by Amnesty International's Barbara Marcolini.
Barbara spoke about her role as a journalist in a human rights org. and walked us through how she documented the Israeli military's destruction of civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.
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.
Absolutely awesome to see that my guide to using Skills in Chrome helped an investigator with his work! Here's the post: indicator.media/p/the-indica...
Was fun to contribute to this great, free training initiative from GIJN!
Alexios Mantzarlis
Alexios Mantzarlis
Today on @indicator.media: Would you be willing to live alone in a remote Norwegian cabin for 90 days in exchange for $8 million? What about forgoing your phone to stay in a tropical overwater villa for $3.7 million?
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.
Today on @indicator.media: A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X.
This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.
The crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy
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...
TikTok removed hundreds of videos pushing hoax reward schemes after Indicator reached out
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...
Indicator’s map of school-related incidents shows the global reach of these tools of abuse
In this GIJN Academy masterclass video, Craig Silverman, investigative journalist and co-founder of Indicator, shares practical techniques for verifying images in an era of misinformation and AI-gener...
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…
