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- This month we unveiled new product features and published research pieces related to the ICE killings in Minnesota, the election denialist movement in Michigan, and the US military raid in Venezuela. Check it all out in this month's "ICYMI" newsletter. openmeasures.substack.com/p/icymi-janu...
- We've spent years following alternative social platforms. Hank Teran, our CEO, shared some thoughts with Politico about the rise of platforms like Bluesky and UpScrolled, which have drawn waves of new users frustrated with the politics of mainstream platforms. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- Quick reminder that we have a free newsletter. You can sign up here and get our latest research reports in your inbox: blog.openmeasures.io
- NEW: Hours after federal officers killed Alex Pretti, MAGA media redirected their audiences to focus on Signal chat groups used by community organizers in Minneapolis. It's the latest in a series of efforts to portray anti-ICE organizing with "antifa." openmeasures.io/alex-pretti-...
- We're constantly updating and improving the Open Measures platform. Today we're announcing two big updates: -Users can now save search queries for future use -Users can now create custom labels for users, contexts, and more We also beefed up our Timeline tool! openmeasures.io/saved-querie...
- After federal officers killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, right-wing media reinvigorated dubious claims associating anti-ICE organizing with left-wing domestic terrorism. Across 7 platforms, we saw those narratives spike after officers killed Good, and against after they killed Pretti
- (Keep your eyes peeled -- we've got a longer report about this in the works.)
- This post was cited in a NYT story about Trump Administration social media posts echoing white supremacist propaganda www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
- Election denialists have spent years trying to undermine public trust in Michigan's election officials, ballot-counting processes, and voting infrastructure. With 2026 midterms on the horizon, our researchers examined what they got up to last year. Our latest: openmeasures.io/michigan-ele...
- Great reporting from @hannahgais.bsky.social that includes some of our archival data from Telegram
- Over the weekend, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared posts with a song, "We'll Have Our Home Again." I dug into the group that performed and popularized it. Its cofounder said his goal was to create "the seed of an eventual government." www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
- Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis. We used our dashboard to see when that's come up before on Truth Social, the microblogging platform Trump owns. We saw three major spikes since January 2024. Here's a quick thread with the context.
- Our researchers found at least 450 posts on Telegram dating back to 2020 that shared the song mentioned in this reporting. Nearly all the posts we found were from explicitly neo-Nazi and white supremacist channels. And a review of our datasets found it hasn't circulated much outside those circles.
- Truth Social users were quick to hype the Trump Administration's initial justifications for escalating military actions against Venezuela: stopping drug traffickers. But since the capture of Maduro, users have shown more interest in the country's oil reserves. openmeasures.io/truth-social...
- Here on Bluesky, calls to abolish ICE have surged since an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Jan. 7
- This morning, we're reading Indicator's rundown of what's been happening with Grok, the chatbot built into the X platform, and its utilization in online sexual abuse against women and minors. via @craigsilverman.bsky.social and @mantzarlis.com indicator.media/p/briefing-g...
- We’re excited to launch our partnership with Maltego Monitor. Starting this month, Open Measures’ fringe and mainstream social collections are available in Maltego Monitor—helping teams interpret online activity, track threats, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. Reach out to learn more!
- A look back on a crazy cool year here at Open Measures including some of our favorite research pieces, some of our media mentions, and new features we introduced to the research platform we’ve developed open.substack.com/pub/openmeas...
- Since the Bondi Beach shooting, Australian neo-Nazis have been highlighting the attack to push anti-immigrant hate and call for “mass deportation” blog.openmeasures.io/p/bondi-beac...
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- Conspiracy theories about weather manipulation (chemtrails, etc.) have spread online in recent years, driving increased threats against public officials. In 2025, they were especially popular on Truth Social -- a platform run by the current head of US government. openmeasures.io/weather-cons...
- We discovered videos on RuTube promoting junk "cheat tools" for Roblox that are actually vehicles for malware that can steal information off devices, like passwords and credit card info. The risks are particularly concerning given the game's popularity with children. openmeasures.io/rutube-roblo...
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- NEW: We linked up with GIFCT to examine white nationalist “youth clubs” recruiting and propagandizing to teens on Telegram. They're affiliated with “active clubs,” decentralized racist groups cropping up in Canada and the US, and recently crossed over into the UK. openmeasures.io/internationa...
- Open Measures senior researcher @jaredlholt.bsky.social joined @jimacosta.bsky.social to talk about Nick Fuentes’ rise in mainstream politics, our research on that front, and more. Check it out! m.youtube.com/watch?v=URCq...
- This piece cites our research looking at suggestions in mainstream news outlets that Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist social media personality, has seen his audience grow in recent months. Our review of the data revealed a different picture. openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
- A former Campbell's Soup executive described the company's food as "bioengineered" and disparagingly referred to its customers as "poor people," according to a lawsuit filed last month. The comments ignited outrage over Thanksgiving week. Some encouraged boycotts. openmeasures.io/campbells-bi...
- ICYMI: Here's a look at the research our team published in November. We investigated: 🔍 Networks promoting an AI essay writing service on VK 🗳️ Last-minute smears in NYC's mayoral election 📊 Claims that Nick Fuentes' audience has recently grown 🕵️ Impersonation scams targeting Rumble users
- NEW: We've been looking at suspicious activity on Rumble. Our latest looks at networks of accounts impersonating the platform's top content creators and trying to lure their audiences into suspicious Telegram chatrooms. The most-impersonated figure? Dan Bongino. openmeasures.io/dan-bongino-...
- Recent news coverage of extremist media personality Nick Fuentes might give readers the impression his audience is booming in size. But after reviewing our data, our researchers have some serious doubts that’s the case. openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
- Last-ditch efforts to damage Zohran Mamdani's reputation, led by pro-Israel and anti-Muslim groups, rehashed Islamophobic smears against the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- a Muslim advocacy group that supported Mamdani's candidacy. openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
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- Open Measures senior researcher @jaredlholt.bsky.social spoke to @willoremus.com for this article about the rising profile of extremist Nick Fuentes in mainstream conservative media circles and the turmoil it’s causing in the MAGA movement www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Our researchers investigated a network of VK pages promoting an essay-writing company based in Cyprus. The accounts appear to be running on generative AI and targeting prospective customers writing in English. The network posted more than 200k times in the last year. openmeasures.io/vk-pages-ess...
- It's been a busy couple months at Open Measures -- so busy, if fact, that we forgot to send a monthly roundup of our research pieces last month! Here's nine stories worth checking out, covering everything from Syrian insurgent groups to Sydney Sweeney's jeans. blog.openmeasures.io/p/icymi-sept...
- Thanks to @craigsilverman.bsky.social and @mantzarlis.com for shouting out our latest research on Rumble in their newsletter briefing this morning. Be sure to check out what Craig and Alexios are doing over at Indicator indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
- Rumble, an alternative video platform, can be tricky to navigate and harder to research/investigate. That's where we come in. Our researchers looked closer at the Rumble data we have, starting with the platform's power users. What they found was eye-opening. 🧵 1/n openmeasures.io/rumble-power...
- Users on Rumble -- a video-based alt-platform -- posted at least 4.4 million videos and 10.7 million comments last year. We looked closer at the most-active uploaders and commenters on the site. What we found was a mix of hateful, scammy, and suspicious. openmeasures.io/rumble-power...
- Earlier this month, we published research showing these concerns about Tylenol were not popular outside a fringe subset of Trump’s online base on Truth Social. When the White House amplified these dubious claims, the platform lit up with posts repeating them. openmeasures.io/tylenol-and-...
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- Our latest examines the ways two post-Assad insurgent groups in Syria have used Telegram to shape public perception. Both Saraya Ansar al-Sunna and the Coastal Shield Brigade show that today's conflict in Syria is as much a digital war as a ground war. openmeasures.io/syrian-insur...
- Early voting the NYC mayoral election starts tomorrow. ICYMI -- We took a closer look at the surge of identity-based attacks against front-runner Zohran Mamdani that appeared after he won the Democratic primary in June. Read it here: openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
- We'll be at Christchurch Hacker Con in New Zealand next week! Come see our Liv Rowley present on stolen credential markets on Telegram on Oct 31 (spooky!). 2025.chcon.nz/schedule/
