“OSINT Tools and More – Editor’s note: Happy fifth anniversary to Jeremy Caplan’s excellent Wonder Tools Substack newsletter. He started his newsletter a couple of months before I launched the Toolbox newsletter. If you’re not subscribing, you should!. I took a fact-checking and OSINT tools course from the Knight Center for the Americas last month. It was co-taught by ProPublica’s Craig Silverman, who pretty much wrote the book on this topic. JournalistsToolbox.ai is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Silverman held an open “office hours” on Zoom last month and shared some great OSINT tools, as well as places you can find more. You can subscribe for free to his newsletter for more tools, and, of course, check the Journalist’s Toolbox Investigative and Fact-Checking pages.” [Note – free and fee based sites are in the list below]
- Craig Silverman Start.me Page
Full of useful OSINT tools and more - OSINT Tools Start.me
List of dozens of useful OSINT tools - OSINT Investigative Tools
Spreadsheet listing tools and descriptions. - OSINT Investigative Tools
Spreadsheet listing tools and descriptions. - NorthData
Search engines for Europe and others. Journalists can get free accounts to all the tools. - Truthfinder
Background checks - TruePeopleFinder
Fast people search - SkopeNow
Paid people search database - Intelius
Background checks tool.
