#disinformation

An employee in Hong Kong watched her CFO and several colleagues join a video call. Familiar faces. Familiar voices. She wired $25.6 million across 15 transactions. Every face on that call was synthetic. That's the IMINT deepfake problem in one sentence. Not a future risk. Not a research paper. A line item on a forensic…

Open TikTok with an investigator's eye and you stop seeing dance trends. You see a billion-user search engine that ships every video with a hidden timestamp, a sound graph that links accounts the user never thought to hide, and an algorithm that quietly narrates which narratives are being pushed where. The platform tha…

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…