SOCMINT
Gathering, monitoring and analyzing intelligence from social networks: posts, profiles, networks of contacts, geo-tags, reactions, leaks of personal data, and behavioral patterns.
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Facebook is still the largest, deepest, and most embarrassing public archive of human behavior ever assembled. It's also the platform OSINT operators keep being told is "dead." Both things are true at the same time. What died in 2019 was Graph Search — Facebook's natural-language query engine that let investigators a…
If you do SOCMINT, you live on X. Whatever you call it — Twitter, the bird site, the everything app — this is still where breaking news, war footage, market panic, and political miscalculation hit the wire first. The platform is messier than it was in 2022, the data is harder to extract, and half the tools you trai…