Research

OSINT investigations and product updates

https://openmeasures.io/research

Our independent research hosted on our blog is one of the ways we show what is possible with our tools. It is also a resource to the OSINT community in the form of free, high-quality research on a range of topics.

Some examples of our work:

Identification of hundreds of war criminals from the Russian invasion of Ukraine using open methods:

War Criminals on VKontakte

Our data often contains surprisingly detailed fields. In the following research, we analyze the sources of funding for the fringe platform Gab.

Gab Funding

We also do deep dives within platforms and investigate commonly discussed content in each. In our study of BitChute, we found individuals spreading white supremacist anti-vaccine content:

BitChute Goes Out of Its Way To Host to Nazi Terror and Anti-Vaxx Convoys