Aric Toler
@AricToler
@nytimes Visual Investigations Previously @bellingcat [email protected] https://bsky.app/profile/aric.bsky.social Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp: +1 913-209-0215
A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…
2023 slop: storifying comments from Reddit 2025: storifying your ChatGPT prompt (I ran basically the same prompt they detailed, assuming it matched what they wrote in the "What To Know" section, and it had Biden #3 and Trump #6. It's almost as if...)
YouTube’s auto-reply AI thing really wants me to invite people over to my apartment.
Great piece on the current status of probiv (sale/sharing of personal data in Russia), which is often used in investigative journalism on Russian topics. en.zona.media/article/2025/0…
How is this not the biggest story in America right now?! I don’t understand how national media isn’t talking about the missing girls nonstop.
How is this not the biggest story in America right now?! I don’t understand how national media isn’t talking about the missing girls nonstop.
Open OSINT job for any UK-based folks at Sky News, in west London. A one-year contract as a producer for their OSINT team: sky.talent-community.com/projects/osint…
Am I insane or awful at detecting this stuff, or is this an AI-generated video for a TV ad? It always plays on X-Files reruns on Comet, so it's not like this is an expensive ad spot. ispot.tv/ad/TUbW/byrna-…
Telegram has removed a number of open-source intelligence (OSINT) channels without explanation, affecting at least eight distinct projects that appear to be based in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia 1/4