Tools
- Social Network: Twitter
Allegedly (Make Adverbs Great Again): https://makeadverbsgreatagain.org/allegedly/ -- Checks a Twitter accounts activity against their posted timezone.
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Botometer: https://botometer.iuni.iu.edu/#!/ -- Checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.
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Hoaxy: https://hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu/ -- Visualizes the spread of articles online.
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Tweetbeaver: https://tweetbeaver.com/ -- Twitter account research tool.
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Twitonomy: https://www.twitonomy.com/ -- Twitter account analytics and management.
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twXplorer: https://twxplorer.knightlab.com/ -- Explore what is trending on Twitter.
- Social Network: Facebook
Crowdtangle Plug-In: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/crowdtangle-link-checker/klakndphagmmfkpelfkgjbkimjihpmkh -- Allows user to see how often a link has been shared, where it has been shared, and post associated.
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Facebook Engagement Tracking: https://status.sharedcount.com/ -- Track URL Shares, Likes, etc.
- Social Network: Reddit
Reddit Search Tool: https://redditsearch.io/ -- Reddit post and user search tool
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Reddit User Lookup and History: https://roadtolarissa.com/javascript/reddit-comment-visualizer/ -- Download and graph Reddit comment history
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Reddit User Lookup and History: https://reddit-user-analyser.netlify.app/ -- Reddit post and user search tool
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Reddit Comment and Submissions Search: https://www.redditinvestigator.com/ -- Scans Reddit comments and submissions
- AV Media: Reverse Image Lookup Tools
Google Image (Click the Camera): https://images.google.com/ -- Searches Google with an image instead of text.
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Tin Eye: https://tineye.com/ -- Search recognition company that compiles numerous search engines to search from an image.
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Yandex (Click the Camera): https://yandex.com/images/ -- Performs search of the internet from image.
- AV Media: Photo Metadata
Jeffrey Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer: http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi -- Decodes metadata encapsulated in an image such as – shutter speed, lens focal length, use of flash, date taken and more.
- AV Media: Deepfake Database & Detection API
Sensity: https://sensity.ai/ -- Visual threat intelligence that analyzes visual media for threats such as deep fakes, manipulated images, malicious users and more.
- AV Media: Reverse Sound Search
ARCCloud: https://www.acrcloud.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/ -- Identifies songs by recording, humming, or singing sounds.
- Website Archives and Citation
archive.today: http://archive.is/ -- Webpage capture technology that retrieves snapshots of webpages, even if the original page has been taken offline.
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Perma.cc: http://perma.cc -- Helps user create permanent records of website citations by creating permanent links.
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Wayback Machine: https://archive.org/ -- Provides free access to a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
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WebCite: https://webcitation.org/ -- Archives webreferences to ensure that cited webmaterial remains available to readers in the future.
- Disinformation Archives
Between 2009 and 2018 the Russian Internet Research agency posted over nine million tweets (along with content on various other social media platforms). These Twitter posts can be explored on the following websites. The two websites complement each other well as one may search terms and concepts using the first resource and examine the media content through the second.
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Searchable Database: https://russiatweets.com/ -- Searches tweets from the Internet Research Agency, a troll factory operated in Russia on behalf of the Russian government.
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Reconstructed Tweets: http://suspicioustweets.archivelab.org/? -- Compilation of raw Twitter data released after the US 2016 elections from foreign influence campaigns originating from Russia and Iran.
- Ad Archives
Ads Transparency Center: https://ads.twitter.com/transparency -- Searchable database of Promoted Tweets and video ads currently running on Twitter.
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Facebook Ad Library Report: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/report/ -- Explores and filters downloaded data for ads with content regarding social issues, elections, or politics.
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Google Transparency Report: https://transparencyreport.google.com/political-ads/home -- Supports election integrity and transparency in political advertising by publishing ad-spend values, originating regions and other specifics.
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