Resources for Open Source Intelligence and Social Media Investigations.
The key to internet research is following the digital bread crumbs that people leave behind online. Open source is defined as publicly available information, i.e. information that any member of the public can lawfully obtain. This site provides numerous free open source resources for researching and analyzing information. Although the information on this website is for anyone to use, it would be most helpful to those in investigative roles such as Analysts and Researchers.
Our Exiled Media Toolkit, produced in partnership with the Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO), brings resources to journalists and outlets established or preparing to be in exile, as they report on communities and events in their home countries.
You can install Dangerzone on your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer, and then use it to open a variety of types of documents: PDFs, Microsoft Office or LibreOffice documents, or images
Juriscraper is a data gathering library written in Python that collects legal opinions, PACER content, and oral arguments from the American court system.
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
A U.S.-based nonprofit, we are both a small, resourceful newsroom with our own reporting team, as well as a global network of reporters and media organizations who work together to investigate the most important stories in the world.