A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

TikTok’s staff is reportedly working on a new version of the app for release in app stores on September 5th. www.theverge.com/news/698999/...

Exc: Logically, the UK's biggest fact checking and anti-disinfo company, has gone into administration. The causes are in dispute, but it's another blow for a beleaguered industry www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

Thrilled to be back for the 2nd year to speak at the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference!

Join me tomorrow AM for my session - I’ll share insights from my Wired investigation www.wired.com/story/inside...
I’ll demonstrate how to investigate using TikTok, Telegram & Facebook @tcij.org

Excited to share my conversation w/ @joshaxelrod.bsky.social on the @osintjobs.bsky.social Podcast!

We covered a range of topics, including:
• OSINT and journalism
• Storytelling and data
• Diversity and inclusion in OSINT
...and more!

🔗 www.osintnewsletter.osint-jobs.com/p/podcast-sa...

Infuriating.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people are valid. Trans people belong and deserve to exist 🏳️‍⚧️

The Capitol Rioters have had quite a lot to say since they received pardons from Donald Trump — most have no regrets, believe conspiracy theories, and remain loyal to Trump and the MAGA movement.

I'm documenting their statements, activities, and networks at Pardon Tracker. Please consider donating:

During his court testimony yesterday in FTC v. Meta, Zuck said: "If any app gets sufficiently large, it has the opportunity to spread out and do different things."

Feels like a relevant observation re: our scoop today that OpenAI is now working on a social network www.theverge.com/openai/64813...

Notorious image board 4chan hacked and internal data leaked

If you’re into OSINT / thinking about the future of open protocols, this is worth a read
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely partnered with a crypto company to bid for TikTok as the social media company faces a deadline to either sell or be banned in the US. Amazon also placed a last minute bid.

I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately."

Hegseth, yesterday: "Nobody's texting war plans."

Hegseth in the texts, which @theatlantic.com just published in full: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NEW: To friends, Matthew Allison was a likeable part of Boise, Idaho’s electronic music scene.

But behind his computer screen, authorities say, he helped lead the Terrorgram Collective, an online network that inspired white supremacist violence.

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

How white supremacists from around the world turned a handful of accounts on Telegram into a community with hundreds of chats and channels focused on recruiting would-be terrorists via @propublica.org & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/series/the-r...

NEW: As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

Just updated our guide to using Signal. If you aren't already on Signal, this will get you up to speed. Also, you should be using Signal—there's no time like this very second! www.wired.com/story/signal...

Shady bets: how Europe’s gambling industry spun out of control

Our new investigation, produced with media in 11 countries, unravels the spin of Europe's multibillion-euro betting industry. It exposes the void of EU regulation, unlicensed sites, offshore secrecy and a growing public health crisis:

Europeans are mystified, disappointed and frightened by a country they thought they knew
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

#Bellingcat, a specialist in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT), has begun working with #universities to develop open-source #investigation courses and create student-led investigative hubs in an attempt to solve the “crisis in democracy”.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-so...

New from 404 Media: buying this $250 ID from the tropical nation of Palau allows you to bypass U.S. crypto laws. The law blocks certain exchanges and limits trades. I bought the ID, verified it works for making accounts on crypto exchanges. Traders are doing this.

www.404media.co/buying-a-250...

I’ll be speaking again at @tcij.org summer conference @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social

Last year I covered how to investigate using Telegram, TikTok and Facebook. What do you want to learn this year?

Book now (students and freelancers get early bird rates!) tcij.org/summer-confe...

Rubio and Marocco completely ended nearly 10,000 aid programs in one fell swoop — including those they had granted waivers just days earlier ... The move consigns untold numbers of the world’s poorest children, refugees and other vulnerable people to death