Open Measures Research

Despite Elon Musk’s efforts toward a “free speech” rebrand, some alt-platform users support leaving X/Twitter or won’t return to the site.

4chan was compromised and went offline for 10 days, it has since returned as of April 25, 2025, with similar levels of activity.

After Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary win in New York City, online identity-based attacks followed with Islamophobic and antisemitic themes.

Discussion of the "Epstein files" has quieted on Truth Social after the Trump Administration declined to release additional info.

An August 9 neo-Nazi rally in Melbourne and an August 31 nationwide anti-immigration rally are keeping the Australian far-right busy.

Introducing a smarter way to search

The French judiciary have faced increased violent rhetoric and death threats after the conviction of far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

A deep dive into the VK page of Pravda Catalan, a Catalan-language news aggregator.

Pro-Russian news aggregators, dubbed Pravda, appear to be purposed with influencing LLLMs with Russia-friendly narratives.

Insights from one of the world's largest social media platforms are now on Open Measures.

Analysis on the usage of alt-tech platforms by Australian politicians and factors that could impact future activity

Despite being deplatformed from most mainstream social media outlets, misogynist influencer Andrew Tate maintains active on alt-tech sites.

Bluesky’s open architecture has made it especially susceptible to fake crypto accounts abusing platform features to grow their own audiences.

Seawater consumption has been promoted as a panacea on Spanish-speaking Telegram, posing specific threats to Spanish speakers.

Australian neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell’s arrest drove far-right activity on Telegram, often originating from The Noticer.

President Trump’s re-litigation of the Panama Canal and the "Gulf of America" mirrors online activity from a few years ago.

The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sparked online discussion, including rare points of agreement across the political divide.

The DoJ stated that Russian military Rybar has links to state-backed disinformation campaigns. We did some digging.

Recent racially-motivated killings have raised concern about Canadian "Active Clubs" and other white nationalist groups.

True the Vote's site VoteAlert allows crowd-sourced, AI-generated misinformation in its widely-shared election reports.

Ahead of the 2024 election, Open Measures tracked misogynistic and Islamophobic trends among misinformation in Michigan.

"Yahoo Boys" groups still run sexploitation and financial fraud scams on major tech platforms despite attempts to limit their activity.

Open Measures' data includes millions of posts from Scored, an alt-tech platform spun-off from the banned subreddit r/TheDonald.

Since chatter has increased significantly on Gettr since our April 2024 report, Open Measures researchers are revisiting Project 2025.

The Trump assassination attempt has led to widespread conspiracy theories on alt-tech platforms.

Active Clubs are decentralized white supremacist groups growing in popularity around the world, though particularly on Telegram.

"True the Vote" activity on alt-tech platforms has increased ahead of the 2024 election. Notably, it has targeted Spanish speakers.

Since the 2020 US election, alleged election fraud issues has been the interest of conservative election audit groups.

By using Boolean or Advanced search, users can target posts, profiles, and links more precisely with Open Measures' tooling.

NYU researchers studied Kiwi Farms harassment and revealed a new use case for Open Measures tools in the process.

After the Trump Media IPO, the company's stock price flagged, but Truth Social users remain supportive (and organized against short sellers).

The Israel-Iran conflict has been discussed differently on Gab and Telegram among Farsi, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew-language users.

Gettr and Scored users have shown interest in conservative Project 2025, both voicing support and questioning its authenticity.

With Crawl Requests, researchers can direct our crawlers at the keywords, profiles, or Telegram channels that they'd like to track.

The upcoming April 8, 2024 solar eclipse has been the subject of conspiracy theories—more so than the last eclipse in 2017.

Open Measures researchers investigated chatter about Alexei Navalny’s death using our Truth Social dataset.

With our new Media Application, multimedia research is now natively supported by Open Measures for Enterprise partners.

Open Measures is adding Bluesky to the stack and can now do Fediverse crawling, expanding its decentralized footprint.

Open Measures is committed to the open-source intelligence community (OSINT) in the fight against disinformation and online extremism.

Open Measures now crawls the Odnoklassniki (OK) social networking service, which supports VK. The data is available via our Public API.

Open Measures has released a Pro API, plus a new centralized dashboard for smooth and easy access to all your tools.

Open Measures has introduced a few key changes to our Public API in order to counter abuse of our platform.

Open Measures' custom built link analysis tool, Network Graph, is now available to the public as a limited beta release.

On various fringe platforms, anti-trans panic narratives have been gaining popularity since 2016, though they have a much older history.

Since Open Measures strives to be accessible and transparent, here is a look back at our major accomplishments in 2022.

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has garnered positive reactions on fringe media, raising questions about social media safety.

Open Measures is studying the online psychological warfare tactics of the Ukraine-Russia war, including the term "cargo 200".

To disrupt the Russian war machine, Open Measures is making its data available and offering bounties for Kremlin disinformation write-ups.

White terror and anti-vax content on BitChute is a concerning online threat; Open Measures set out to do some research.

Using author and boolean searching using Open Measures API allows users to further fine tune and target their searches.

Revelations on the Gettr platform reveal unusual ties to billionaire Guo Wengui and as-yet unclear connections to a cryptocurrency scheme.

Open Measures is making its Gab funding data public. Our preliminary analysis shows many alt-right donors and investors.

Open Measures was honored to appear with Tohatoha to the Justice Committee at NZ Parliament as part of 2020 Election Inquiry.

Open Measures has released our new Search Tool, which allows users to read full posts from our dataset in a convenient interface.

A data-driven study of harmful content spread by extremist groups on fringe online platforms surrounding the Aotearoa New Zealand elections.

Open Measures collected posts from thedonald.win and related sites and found posts of users organizing the January 6 coup attempt.

Open Measures scraped VKontakte for personal information to find those behind war crimes in Bucha, known as the "Despicable 10."

Open Measures has now added Telegram data to its datasets, with more than 8.8 million posts crawled from 1000 channels.

An API advice guide to making the most of Open Measures' streaming public data (Telegram, Parler, 8kun, etc.)

Open Measures' tools aid help open source journalism tell the full story on disinformation with data visualizations.