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Open Measures
@openmeasures.bsky.social
Solutions to track the spread of harmful social media activity.

https://openmeasures.io/
WhatsApp coverage is now live on Open Measures. It's included in our Public and open source tooling which means you can check it out today! Take it for a spin at public.openmeasures.io and get in touch for deeper insights!
openmeasures.io/whatsapp/
May 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
We've optimized our tools and rolled out new enhancements. For instance, researchers now have the ability to filter data based on AI-generated image descriptions and video transcripts. We are excited to see the insights and research results that will emerge from utilizing Discover!
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
✨ It's launch day! We're thrilled to introduce the Discover tool. This innovative tool empowers researchers to explore multimedia and text-based social research from any number of sources, all through a unified interface. Contact us to get your team access to Open Measures!
openmeasures.io/platform/
April 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In October 2024 the DoJ stated that Rybar, a Russian media organization, has active links to disinformation campaigns. We did some cross-platform digging.

https://buff.ly/3BEKcPd
December 23, 2024 at 6:37 PM
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
More pointedly, Michigan officials Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson were frequent subjects of misogynistic comments and threats.

Read our full investigation below:
https://buff.ly/4f2O7nf
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Open Measures previously released nearly two million posts from the alt-tech network Scored, related to the January 6, 2024 attack on the Capitol.

But what is Scored?
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
New feature alert! Researchers can now use Open Measures’ open-source tools to fine-tune their search results. By using one of the three options - Basic, Boolean, or Advanced - users can target posts, profiles, and links more precisely.
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Partners provide targets for the crawl (1). Open Measures’ crawlers pick up jobs (2) and run collection for data using a source’s native search interface (3). That data is then collected and stored (4). Partners can then access the collected data on Open Measures (5)
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Weekend feature deploy! 📡 Link analysis now supports toggling between analyzing the full URL and URL host!

Try it out yourself with our open tooling: https://public.openmeasures.io/links?searchTerm=election&startDate=2023-03-16&endDate=2023-09-15&websites=fediverse&numberOf=10&interval=day&limi...
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
New product alert! ✨Open Measures partners can now sift through troves of multimedia content on Open Measures using the Media Application. Read more here:
https://blog.openmeasures.io/p/new-release-media-application
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We’ve got some exciting news! As of today, SMAT is rebranding to Open Measures. 💫 Our mission is unchanged but our digital footprint and platform user interface is getting a revamp.

https://openmeasures.io/
Public tooling: https://public.openmeasures.io
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🧨NEW SOURCE🧨 RUTUBE is a Russia video platform that hosts a lot of state sponsored material. As always, the data is accessible via our free public UI and API:
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April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Members of the neo-nazi group "Patriot Front" were recently arrested in a Uhaul van while attempting to intimidate an LGBT+ celebration.

They host their content on Odyssee (LBRY), Telegram, Gab, and Minds. All of which we archive and offer tools for investigating.
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
SMAT now has a tool for searching and visualizing Telegram media. Researchers and journalists can sort up to date images, videos, etc. from the front line of the war in Ukraine. We hope to contribute to war crimes archival efforts. Please reach out for beta access!
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Additionally we are offering $500 bounties for blogposts related to fascism and disinformation surrounding the conflict pulling from our data sources. We have some suggested bones to get started or are open to new pitches!
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
NEW RELEASE: just integrated minds[.]com into SMAT! minds is an alt-tech "blockchain-based" social network. data includes activity (posts) and comments. we are also capturing user profile data on our backend! this brings our total site count to 13!
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
lots of new additions to SMAT - Bitchute, MeWe, and WiMKiN are all available!

run searches, perform aggregations and query content via our free tools and API.

this brings our data set total up to 11!

https://www.smat-app.com/
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
For example, did you know that they raised around $1.7 million dollars from investors, $6 million through an ICO (withdrawn), and that they're hemorrhaging investor money? Their behavior is kind of irresponsible to shareholders don't ya think?
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The dataset from our Parler paper has been downloaded over 2k times! https://zenodo.org/record/4442460
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Parler data is starting to trickle in and it's not just "gold badge" users which means normal users are starting to return to Parler. And let me tell you, it's going about how you'd expect.
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
SMAT collaboration with @aleszubajak and @USATODAY cited during Rep. Diana DeGette's argument. Thanks to so many people who made this possible. We love the SMAT community.
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
SMAT's new Substack has launched! First post looks at how SMAT can be used by journalists and media rooms. https://smat.substack.com/p/smat-and-media
(imag
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April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
SMAT's interactive US politicians graph is still live updating! It has now shifted to reflect Bidens centrality to the graph though. With it you can see some accounts mass replying to his account.
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
TELEGRAM has just dropped on SMAT!! 🧐😎 We're currently indexing a large number of mostly "terrorgram", Qanon, and militia channels. You can play with the data visually in SMAT app or get it directly from the api. Here's a sample query of the links shared with the term "qanon".
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM