Research
June 11, 2024
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels Amplify Anti-UN Sentiments
Pro-Russian Telegram operatives wage relentless disinformation campaigns against UN peacekeepers in Mali, DRC, and CAR.
November 15, 2024
ResearchCanadian Active Clubs and White Nationalist Groups on Telegram
Recent racially-motivated killings have raised concern about Canadian "Active Clubs" and other white nationalist groups.
November 1, 2024
ResearchTrue the Vote Allows Election Misinformation on VoteAlert
True the Vote's site VoteAlert allows crowd-sourced, AI-generated misinformation in its widely-shared election reports.
October 24, 2024
ResearchMisinformation in Michigan Ahead of 2024 Election
Ahead of the 2024 election, Open Measures tracked misogynistic and Islamophobic trends among misinformation in Michigan.
October 21, 2024
ResearchYahoo Boys Scams Openly Discussed on Major Social Platforms
"Yahoo Boys" groups still run sexploitation and financial fraud scams on major tech platforms despite attempts to limit their activity.
September 12, 2024
ResearchOpen Measures Datasets: What is Scored?
Open Measures' datasets include millions of posts from Scored, an alt-tech platform spun-off from the banned subreddit r/TheDonald.
August 15, 2024
ResearchRevisiting Project 2025: Narratives on Alt-Tech Platforms
Since chatter has increased significantly on Gettr since our April 2024 report, Open Measures researchers are revisiting Project 2025.
July 19, 2024
ResearchTrump Assassination Attempt Spurs Range of Conspiracy Theories
The Trump assassination attempt has led to widespread conspiracy theories on alt-tech platforms.
July 2, 2024
ResearchWhite Supremacist Active Clubs Gain Traction on Telegram
Active Clubs are decentralized white supremacist groups growing in popularity around the world, though particularly on Telegram.
June 24, 2024
Research“True the Vote” Conservatives Organize on Truth Social
"True the Vote" activity on alt-tech platforms has increased ahead of the 2024 election. Notably, it has targeted Spanish speakers.
June 19, 2024
ResearchElection Audit Groups Spread Misinformation on Telegram
Since the 2020 US election, alleged election fraud issues has been the interest of conservative election audit groups.
June 12, 2024
AnnouncementNew Feature: Boolean and Advanced Search
By using Boolean or Advanced search, users can target posts, profiles, and links more precisely with Open Measures' tooling.
May 15, 2024
Case StudiesResearch Paper Reveals New Open Measures Use Case
NYU researchers studied Kiwi Farms harassment and revealed a new use case for Open Measures tools in the process.
May 9, 2024
ResearchTrump Media IPO Generates Discussion on Truth Social
After the Trump Media IPO, the company's stock price flagged, but Truth Social users remain supportive (and organized against short sellers).
May 8, 2024
ResearchAlt-Tech Chatter about the Israel-Iran Conflict
The Israel-Iran conflict has been discussed differently on Gab and Telegram among Farsi, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew-language users.
April 14, 2024
ResearchProject 2025: Narratives on Alt-Tech Platforms
Gettr and Scored users have shown interest in conservative Project 2025, both voicing support and questioning its authenticity.
April 10, 2024
AnnouncementProduct Release: Crawl Requests
With Crawl Requests, researchers can direct our crawlers at the keywords, profiles, or Telegram channels that they'd like to track.
April 3, 2024
ResearchChatter on Rumble about Upcoming Solar Eclipse
The upcoming April 8, 2024 solar eclipse has been the subject of conspiracy theories—more so than the last eclipse in 2017.
March 19, 2024
ResearchChatter on Truth Social After Death of Alexei Navalny
Open Measures researchers investigated chatter about Alexei Navalny’s death using our Truth Social dataset.
March 6, 2024
AnnouncementNew Release: Media Application
With our new Media Application, multimedia research is now natively supported by Open Measures for Enterprise partners.
January 30, 2024
AnnouncementFediverse and Bluesky Crawling to Expand our Decentralized Footprint
Open Measures is adding Bluesky to the stack and can now do Fediverse crawling, expanding its decentralized footprint.
December 18, 2023
AnnouncementAnnouncing Open Measures
Open Measures is committed to the open-source intelligence community (OSINT) in the fight against disinformation and online extremism.
May 10, 2023
AnnouncementNew Release: Odnoklassniki (OK) Dataset
Open Measures now crawls the Odnoklassniki (OK) social networking service, which supports VK. The data is available via our Public API.
April 11, 2023
AnnouncementNew Feature: Platform and Pro API Release
Open Measures has released a Pro API, plus a new centralized dashboard for smooth and easy access to all your tools.
February 28, 2023
AnnouncementNew Feature: Updates to the Public API
Open Measures has introduced a few key changes to our Public API in order to counter abuse of our platform.
February 21, 2023
AnnouncementNew Release: Network Graph (Limited Release)
Open Measures' custom built link analysis tool, Network Graph, is now available to the public as a limited beta release.
January 10, 2023
ResearchAnti-Trans Panic Online
On various fringe platforms, anti-trans panic narratives have been gaining popularity since 2016, though they have a much older history.
January 4, 2023
AnnouncementOpen Measures 2022 Retrospective
Since Open Measures strives to be accessible and transparent, here is a look back at our major accomplishments in 2022.
November 15, 2022
ResearchElon Musk’s Twitter Acquisition Draws Fringe Reactions
Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has garnered positive reactions on fringe media, raising questions about social media safety.
March 18, 2022
Case StudiesCargo 200 and Psychological Warfare in Ukraine
Open Measures is studying the online psychological warfare tactics of the Ukraine-Russia war, including the term "cargo 200".
February 28, 2022
AnnouncementKremlin Disinformation Requests and Bounties
To disrupt the Russian war machine, Open Measures is making its data available and offering bounties for Kremlin disinformation write-ups.
February 23, 2022
ResearchBitChute White Terror and Anti-Vax Content
BitChute white terror and anti-vax content are a concerning online threat, which Open Measures set to research.
October 10, 2021
Case StudiesAdvanced API Usage
Using author and boolean searching using Open Measures API allows users to further fine tune and target their searches.
October 6, 2021
ResearchGuo Wengui and Crypto Scheme Connections to Gettr
Revelations on the Gettr platform reveal unusual ties to billionaire Guo Wengui and as-yet unclear connections to a cryptocurrency scheme.
July 2, 2021
ResearchGab Funding Includes Alt-Right Donors and Investors
Open Measures is making its Gab funding data public. Our preliminary analysis shows many alt-right donors and investors.
May 24, 2021
AnnouncementOpen Measures in NZ Parliament
Open Measures was honored to appear with Tohatoha to the Justice Committee at NZ Parliament as part of 2020 Election Inquiry.
April 20, 2021
AnnouncementNew Feature: Read Full Posts with the New Search Tool
Open Measures has released our new Search Tool, which allows users to read full posts from our dataset in a convenient interface.
March 19, 2021
Case StudiesAotearoa New Zealand Elections Spark Extremist Conspiracies
A data-driven study of harmful content spread by extremist groups on fringe online platforms surrounding the Aotearoa New Zealand elections.
February 23, 2021
ResearchTheDonald.win and Activity Leading Up to January 6
Open Measures collected posts from thedonald.win and related sites and found posts of users organizing the January 6 coup attempt.
February 23, 2021
ResearchWar Crimes in Bucha and Criminals on VKontakte
Open Measures scraped VKontakte for personal information to find those behind war crimes in Bucha, known as the "Despicable 10."
February 5, 2021
AnnouncementTelegram Data Now on Open Measures
Open Measures has now added Telegram data to its datasets, with more than 8.8 million posts crawled from 1000 channels.
February 4, 2021
AnnouncementAPI Advice
An API advice guide to making the most of Open Measures' streaming public data (Telegram, Parler, 8kun, etc.)
February 3, 2021
AnnouncementOpen Source Journalism with Open Measures Tools
Open Measures' tools aid help open source journalism tell the full story on disinformation with data visualizations.