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One of the world’s most popular social media platforms, TikTok, is now host to a steady stream of deepfake videos.

Editor’s Note: This post by the OSINTCurio.us Project‘s Technisette was based on a presentation at the Dutch OSINT Conference 2019 about how to search on Instagram.

The first of six new guides from First Draft covers the tricky ethical terrain that comes with reporting in a world of information disorder.

At least 235 million USD was earned from advertising on websites of disinformation and extremist character. Worth noticing, ad exchanges whose ads were shown on the dark side of the Internet could have no consciousness of what type of activity they sponsor.

Reports of organizations which research the phenomenon of disinformation point out to common technics and topics used by pro-Kremlin propaganda in media of countries included in the research.

We have been asking ourselves the question from the title for years and for years we have been trying to create more and more efficient programs, making use of new researches, reports and experts’ experience.

Every action taken against security requires from the aggressors operations against the view on this security.

Thinking about disinformation, we usually focus on operations aimed to misrepresent the reality or to give it own narrative.

If we know lots of people on social will only glance at our headlines and not tap through, why can’t we bring better information to them where they are?

On 11 October 2014, a Facebook profile to a person named “Ruslan Boshirov” — the cover identity of Skripal poisoner Anatoliy Chepiga — posted a lone photograph of Prague, showing the heavily trafficked Old Town Square and the Astronomical Clock.