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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 1, 2024

Research

True 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

Research

Misinformation 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

Research

Yahoo 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

Research

Open 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

Research

Revisiting 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

Research

Trump Assassination Attempt Spurs Range of Conspiracy Theories

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

July 2, 2024

Research

White 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

Research

Election 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

Announcement

New 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 Studies

Research 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

Research

Trump 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

Research

Alt-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

Research

Project 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

Announcement

Product 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

Research

Chatter 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

Research

Chatter 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

Announcement

New Release: Media Application

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

January 30, 2024

Announcement

Fediverse 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

Announcement

Announcing Open Measures

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

May 10, 2023

Announcement

New 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

Announcement

New 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

Announcement

New 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

Announcement

New 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

Research

Anti-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

Announcement

Open 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

Research

Elon 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 Studies

Cargo 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

Announcement

Kremlin 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

Research

BitChute 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 Studies

Advanced API Usage

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

October 6, 2021

Research

Guo 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

Research

Gab 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

Announcement

Open 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

Announcement

New 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 Studies

Aotearoa 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

Research

TheDonald.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

Research

War 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

Announcement

Telegram 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

Announcement

API Advice

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

February 3, 2021

Announcement

Open Source Journalism with Open Measures Tools

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