Online Investigation
Online Investigation
Social media, search operators and OSINT. Identifying the person behind an account, verifying a profile, recovering deleted posts, and reverse image searching.
- Unmasking an Anonymous X Account Bios, usernames, archives, and breach data — how the clues combine.
- Verifying a Profile Belongs to Your Subject Confirming identity before you put it in a report.
- Google Operators Every Investigator Should Know The dozen that matter, with real investigative examples.
- Finding Someone on Facebook Without an Account What is still reachable from the outside.
- Recovering Deleted and Archived Posts Where a removed post still lives, and how to capture it defensibly.
- Reverse Image Search: Four Engines, Four Answers They do not return the same results. Run all four.
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The Social Media Investigator’s Guide
Tracing and verifying accounts, advanced search beyond basic queries, facial recognition strategies, recovering hidden or deleted posts, and the legal and ethical lines. $49.99. There are companion courses on unmasking anonymous X accounts and Google power searching.
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