Craig Silverman

Cofounder of Indicator, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Ex: ProPublica, BuzzFeed News.

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TikTok & Instagram have been deluged by thousands of videos from female students that praise Jenni, an AI study app. They say it's better than ChatGPT. They say it can improve your grades.

What don't they say? That they were paid to promote Jenni.

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@jessetrowe @DetectArena Spot slop

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@laurahazardowen WHAT THE FUCK

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This AI-generated podcast network publishes 11,000 episodes a day. It also rips off local media outlets.

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@JJEnglert @Remotion Guide

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@juliapintar MANAGE

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@Zephyr_hg NEWS

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@NahFlo2n Curiosity

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@SimslearnAi IG

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@demirdjiantwins IG

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@maverickecom Playbook

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I dug into +12 free tools that can help with investigating YouTube, including:

📍Verifying/geolocating vids
📍Searching for videos, channels/creators
📍Investigating channels
📍Identifying related channels/videos
📍Analyzing trending content

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@Jonnyvandel MASS

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@maverickecom Insider creating

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@rom1trs Editor

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@davidfigeira Hair

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I spent the last 12 months collecting and testing a wide range of digital investigative/OSINT tools. You can learn about my favorites in my rundown of more than 45 new, updated, or new-to-me tools from 2025:

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[Rob Leathern @robleathern]

This is exactly right: “This year, powerful people, companies, and institutions welcomed digital deception like never before”. Wild.

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VC-backed bot farms, oceans of AI slop, industrial level scams, abusive AI nudifier apps, Meta paying for hoaxes... 2025 saw digital deception legitimized, institutionalized & shoved down the public’s throat.

Our look at the year tech embraced fakeness:
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[Jared Holt @jaredlholt]

We've been taking a deep look at what actually happens on Rumble. Our latest looks at the networks of scammers who are impersonating the site's top creators -- Dan Bongino, in particular -- and trying to harm their fans.

The scale here is INSANE.

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