Digital Investigations

Digital Investigations is no longer on Substack

It's been rebranded as Indicator and lives at Indicator.media

May 19 • 

Craig Silverman

Tools and tips round up: New tools for online searching, NICAR tipsheets, and a tip for Pinterest

Plus: this newsletter is changing soon!

May 12 • 

Craig Silverman

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April 2025

Tools and tips round up: Using favicons in investigations, analyzing GitHub repos, and an InVID update

Plus: some news from me!

Apr 28 • 

Craig Silverman

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December 2024

Tools and tips round up: A new way to use OpenStreetMap and tools for Wikipedia, Telegram and more

Plus: guides for investigative journalism and for using OSINT for Bluesky.

Dec 30, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman

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November 2024

Tools and tips round up: Searching and using Bluesky, new tools from Bellingcat and Henk van Ess, and more

Bluesky is surging, so here's a rundown of tools and search operators to use on the platform.

Nov 26, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman

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October 2024

Tools and tips round up: Finding deleted tweets and new tools from Bellingcat

Plus: upcoming free and paid workshops.

Oct 3, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman

September 2024

A look at the Information Laundromat website analysis tool

The Alliance For Securing Democracy created a free OSINT tool to examine the content and metadata of websites

Sep 5, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman

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June 2024

Tools and tips round up: A new Google search filter and two guides to open source research

Plus: Analyzing shadows, tools for Telegram, and more!

Jun 21, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman

2

May 2024

A guide to investigating digital ad libraries

How to dig into ad libraries from Google, Meta and other platforms to track spending, narratives, campaigns and more

May 31, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman

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April 2024

Tools and tips round up: Email investigations, digging into payment gateways, and more

Plus: Google's new image search tool, tipsheets for search engines, shell companies, map investigations, and Telegram.

Apr 18, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman

March 2024

Tools and tips round up: CrowdTangle comes to an end and inside Archive.org's Collections

Plus: new tools for Twitter, Facebook, domain lookups and audio verification.

Mar 26, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman

Key tools and approaches for using AI in OSINT and investigations

AI and LLMs pose significant risk to information integrity. But they also offer a lot of promise for OSINT and investigations. Here's a look at some…

Mar 6, 2024 • 

Craig Silverman