Our 2022 retrospective blog post is out!
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Important article (citing smat) by for about the harassment platform Kiwi Farms. We recently wrote about anti trans activity there on our blog. blog.smat-app.com/p/anti-trans-f
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You've maybe heard of Kiwi Farms, one of the most destructive sites online, but what exactly was it? I spent years talking to victims and their friends and family, investigating how it destroyed people's lives and why it's still not dead yet motherjones.com/politics/2023/
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And this is what it looks like in policy:
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I've compiled a legislative tracker for anti-LGBTQ bills. As of today, there are at least 58 bills:
27 bills banning gender affirming care
15 bills banning trans people from sports
6 bills banning drag
Will update going forward. Follow along.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d
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SMAT has performed a high level overview of anti-trans content on alt-platforms. This article takes a somewhat more personal tone than our other work before.
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Meet the Team - Part 1! 🐦
Creative Direction -
Editing and Video - François Duverger
Design - , Amina Kazi, Bruna Dipp
Sound- Joshua Quarles
OpenCollective.com
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The worst people on the most infamous platforms are thrilled about Musk's acquisition of Twitter. What will this mean for the internet as we know it?
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The FAQ section addresses a range of questions such as:
- How complete is our data?
- What is open sourced?
- How can data be validated?
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The data guide offers quick reference tables, descriptions, sample api requests, and other useful information for navigating our data.
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SMAT’s API is designed to be user friendly but this guide helps break it down further to show how to make requests, advanced complex queries, and access the SMAT CLI.
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We offer free, public, and open-source tools to help a wide range of users to expose and analyze threats. This detailed guide shows you how to make the most of these tools.
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SMAT is excited to unveil official documentation!
We have 📕GUIDES for our:
🛠️Tools
✨API usage
💾Data fields
❓As well as a FAQ with those burning questions
🧵Short thread…
docs.smat-app.com/docs
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Ideologues like Bannon have been kicking up smoke around Arizona for a long time, from insinuating corruption in the voting process to making outright crazy accusations of a conspiracy... they're calling for a rally at the Election Dept for tomorrow. (data from )
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And while I'm on my long-winded, #ica23-procrastinating rant, let me drop some alternative sources of data that researchers may be interested in (no coding necessary):
SMAT (Multiple SM, counts)
Junkipedia (Multiple SM)
4CAT (Multiple SM)
Pushshift (Reddit+)
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If you want to search videos on multiple platforms with a single command,
Try ruby, a handy #cli #tool, which searches videos by keyword in #Youtube, #Rumble and #Bitchute.
github.com/jakecreps/ruby
@jakecreps
#python #OSINT #SOCMINT #ThreatIntel #intelligence #investigation
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Tools for detecting misinformation: shares tons of resources like junkipedia.org and smat-app.com with - at Election Misinfo Symposium
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Hey all - we are looking for a contract/hourly sales lead to grow our B2B sales. Refer to the post below and get in touch with us at info@smat-app.com if you think you'd be the right fit:
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🧨NEW SOURCE🧨 RUTUBE is a Russia video platform that hosts a lot of state sponsored material. As always, the data is accessible via our free public UI and API:
smat-app.com
api.smat-app.com/docs
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Thanks to the effort of amazing archivists like , the entire sordid history of KF will be preserved even if it goes down, which it ought to
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Thanks to I've begun to uncover just how much hate has been written about me across 4Chan, Telegram and other channels due to my work in Ukraine.
They'll never silence my reporting.
Ever.
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... as well as a crucial OSINT tool for observing the war in Ukraine
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TikTok is widely reported as a hub of misinformation leading up to the US midterms...
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🚨NEW SOURCE🚨 We added TikTok videos and comments to the free API / public UI. Inspired by the tool, we are live-crawling videos and their comments from a set of seed hashtags!
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Bellingcat's Tech Team has built a new tool which allows you to collect and analyse TikTok posts. Our step-by-step guide shows you how to install it, how to use it, and how to analyse what you find. bellingcat.com/resources/how-
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Over 500 open source researchers told us how digital tools could make their work easier. analysed their responses.
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SMAT was able to provide some baseline data showing a baseline estimate of Aotearoa's fringe internet. Check it out here: tohatoha.org.nz/2022/07/new-ze
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Big news! Today, in association with @SMAT_app, we published the first edition of our NEW monthly Internet Weather Report! Read the first edition here: mailchi.mp/2d6ad7b2cccd/t
Do let us know what you think, and if you like it, subscribe (it's free!) tohatoha.org.nz/newsletter/
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Endlessly frustrated that my own field continues to obsess over whether an enemy nation-state might be behind some trivial online operation, rather than the ways that tech is aiding and accelerating homegrown fascism in the US and abroad. 1/3
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SMAT is crawling the “Russian Facebook”, VKontakte, to ID war criminals.
So far we found: 9/10 of the “Despicable 10”, the un-named Bucha truck driver, and 700 matches total.
Here we name names and share methods and findings. 🧵…..
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Proud of smat
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SMAT has been archiving Truth Social and has records of the deleted Truth Social posts including all public metadata. We don't miss folks!
Here's a sample from our public app: smat-app.com/search?searchT
And here's a JSON if you can data wrangle. api.smat-app.com/content?term=%
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New w/@WhitneyWReports:
'Hang them all': January 6th committee members target of violent rhetoric on right-wing social media platforms
cnn.com/2022/06/22/tec
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Check out this purely OSINT investigation identifying dozens of war-crime suspects, including most of the "Bucha despicable 10" first reported by the NY Times.
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Lol if there's one thing that can unite allot of tech savvy people, it's a common villain. Russia's given us that.
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To support our free, public, and open-source efforts check out our Open Collective page. Additionally, if you or someone you know is interested in translating this to Ukrainian please reach out via the contact in the article.
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