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Funding and backers
Total raised
$1.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$1.5M
Pre-Seed · May 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
1-10
employees, estimated range
The money's age
Long since its last round
29 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 8, 2024
Raised a round Pre-Seed $1.5M · TechCrunch
Oct 2020
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
9
best: 28 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | May 2024 | $1.5M | — | TechCrunch |
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News
The Kremlin's Digital Pirates: How Russian Tracking Pixels Harvest Romanians' Data to Fund Conspiracies and Extremism
For five months, we tracked over 100,000 ads displayed across 131 websites in Eastern Europe. After decoding the hidden mechanisms behind these ads, we uncovered a network of Russian companies. This investigation reveals what data is harvested from Romani
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CheckFirst's 6th Birthday: a year of innovations
We are delighted and proud to celebrate our sixth anniversary! We marked this occasion by reflecting on our achievements and learnings over the past year. The post CheckFirst's 6th Birthday: a year of innovations appeared first on CheckFirst.
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Roska Bridge: How a pro-Russian IMS exploits vulnerabilities of decentralised platforms to spread propaganda
Our new investigation reveals how a sophisticated Russian information manipulation set (IMS), dubbed "Roska Bridge", uses alternative and decentralised social media platforms as a weapon to flood Western and domestic Russian audiences with aggressive, ant
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Noise without effect: anti-Pashinyan disinformation on the rise ahead of Armenian parliamentary elections
We spent one month ahead of Armenian parliamentary elections monitoring disinformation spread by foreign Information Manipulation Sets and tracking what recommendation algorithms were pushing to diaspora users searching for content about the vote. The pos
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Introducing Tutki: We simulated social media to teach how it gets weaponised
We run OSINT investigations. We contributed to create methodological and ethical guidelines to frame the practice. Logically, we developed a platform to help organisations strengthen their staff's resilience against information manipulation, foreign influ
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Watch the replay: Ethics in the fight against disinformation: from theory to practice
On May 19th, Nelly Pailleux discussed the ethical implications while conducting OSINT investigations in light of the ObSINT guidelines. The post Watch the replay: Ethics in the fight against disinformation: from theory to practice appeared first on CheckF
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CheckFirst and Filigran connect the Pravda network to OpenCTI
Meet CheckFirst's Import Connector, which brings in real-time data directly from the Pravda network. The post CheckFirst and Filigran connect the Pravda network to OpenCTI appeared first on CheckFirst.
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Watch the replay: Decoding Russian intelligence: what medals and insignia reveal
On April 23rd, Hervé Letoqueux presented findings from two recent investigations merging OSINT and phaleristics. The post Watch the replay: Decoding Russian intelligence: what medals and insignia reveal appeared first on CheckFirst.
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CheckFirst and Samsa immerse French journalists in a virtual foreign interference campaign
We constructed a one-day training with the French training organisation Samsa to help French journalists to learn how to identify and analyze information manipulation, disinformation campaigns, and coordinated inauthentic behavior in electoral context. Th
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Unveiling GRU's Information Operations Troops with OSINT and Medals
We tracked the infrastructure of one of the most secretive units of Russian intelligence by using phaleristics (i.e. the academic study of medals and military decorations) and traditional OSINT techniques. The post Unveiling GRU's Information Operations T
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Financials
Total raised
$1.5M
Latest round
Pre-Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | 2024 | $1.5M | Details |