# Craig Silverman

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How digital investigators expose lies and find truth, with OSINT pro Craig Silverman

How do digital/open-source investigators uncover hidden truths and expose lies? World-renowned digital sleuth Craig Silverman shares important lessons he's learned from years spent exposing scammers, fake-news operators, fraud networks, and online deception. We discuss: the techniques investigators…

How WSJ reporters caught Polymarket faking its own site

In this episode of Show & Tell, hosts Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis sit down with Wall Street Journal reporters Caitlin Ostroff and Neil Mehta, who found that Polymarket paid creators to place fake bets on a faked version of its platform. By reviewing more than 1,100 videos, they noticed t…

Craig Silverman: Industrialised Deception and the Truth Crisis

In this episode, we're joined by Craig Silverman, one of the world's leading experts on online disinformation, who says the era of tech companies funding fact-checking is over.  Craig has spent more than two decades reporting on how our information environment gets manipulated, from a blog trackin…

Won't Fix Episode 15: With Alexios Mantzarlis, Co-Founder of Indicator

Alexios Mantzarlis has spent his career on the unglamorous side of the internet. He founded the Italian fact-checking site Pagella Politica, then led the International Fact-Checking Network, then spent several years at Google building an adversarial red team focused on content risks from generative…

How Renée DiResta realized Grokipedia suddenly stopped accepting edits

In this episode of Show & Tell, we speak to Renée DiResta about Grokipedia and the contestability of AI-mediated information sources. Grokipedia is worth studying not just as “a culture war artifact,” she said, but because even if Musk’s AI encyclopedia fades away, “something like it will exist at …

"Using AI In Investigations - To Uncover A North Korean Hiring Scam" with Craig Silverman

This week OSINT journalist and trainer Craig Silverman joined us to share how he uses AI in investigations, from prompting Claude to become a research assistant to searching with facial recognition tools. This talk specifically dove into his methodology on his recent investigation into a North Kore…

"Maintaining An Open Source Toolkit" with Bellingcat Staff and Toolkit Guardians

This week we spoke to the people behind the Bellingcat Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit, two years after it was first launched. In the conversation, Johanna Wild, Anisa Shabir and Martin Sona explored how they assess new tools, put tools to the test and manage to upkeep the toolkit amongst …

Digging for Truth with Craig Silverman

The co-founder of Indicator on how lies have taken over the internet and what we can all do to build a better information ecosystem.    Also this week: Culture wars over digital duty of care AI as an intellectual hot dog and what the Firmus flop could mean for datacentres For show notes go …

How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral

The Onion is a comedy institution — and like everything else in media, it went on a pure nightmare hell ride in the 2010s. We could do an entire episode on the G/O Media calamity, but the short version is: A bunch of friends just managed to buy The Onion, and they're busy relaunching the website, g…