Show & Tell from Indicator

In this episode of Show & Tell, Craig and Alexios talk with Omer Benjakob, the disinformation and cyber reporter for Haaretz. Omer worked with international collaborators on a seminal series of investigations  into “Team Jorge,” a shady marketing operation that claimed it could help him and his collaborators interfere with an election in sub-Saharan Africa. He calls the product that Team Jorge...

In this episode of Show & Tell, hosts Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis talk with Barbara Marcolini, a visual investigative journalist with Amnesty International.  In this episode, Marcolini shares her journey from journalism to human rights work, highlighting her expertise in geolocation, video verification, and reverse image search. Barbara discusses Amnesty’s work documenting destructi...

In this episode of Show & Tell, hosts Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis talk with Kolina Koltai, a senior researcher and trainer at Bellingcat. Kolina has led investigations into AI nudifiers and deepfake pornography networks. Her work has contributed to the takedown of MrDeepFakes, the largest deepfake community on the web, among other impact. Kolina walked through two investigations: on...

In this episode of Show & Tell, hosts Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis from Indicator talk with Clara Jiménez Cruz, co-founder and CEO of Maldita.es , a Spanish nonprofit news organization that uses fact-checking, data journalism, and OSINT to expose disinformation and digital deception. Clara gave a hands-on look at three investigations that exposed how platform systems — not just bad a...

In this episode of Show & Tell, hosts Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis sit down with Jeff Horwitz, investigative reporter at Reuters. Jeff shares how he showed that Meta has earned billions of dollars from online scam ads—and how he used the company’s own ad system to prove his point. Jeff details how he combines leaked internal documents with hands-on experiments, including running his...