#investigative-journalism

Most "people search" tutorials end where the real work begins. They show you how to type a name into a free aggregator, screenshot the result, and call it intelligence. That's not OSINT. That's typing. Public records — the actual ones, filed with governments — are where investigations live or die. Court dockets, co…

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…

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a discipline of restraint as much as discovery. Anyone can scrape a profile or run a username search, but professional investigators are judged on whether their work is scoped, lawful, repeatable, and safe — for them, for their subjects, and for the integrity of the case. This guid…