List of information networks we monitor for psyops and have at least one “lighthouse” in.
American mainstream news - via NPR & Democracy Now
Ithaca NY - via Ithaca Social Circle
Rationalism - via Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, and Aella.
See also Community Archive, an open memetics “weather station”
American Academics - via Adam Mastroianni & Slime Mold Time Mold
Blue Sky - (TODO: who are the Lighthouses here?)
Crypto - (TODO: who are the Lighthouses here?)
Tech Industry - via HackerNews front page
LinkedIn - via Renee Shaw
See an entry point to her social engineering work in this video interview
Wikipedia Editors - via Jon Tiburzi
“Milady” movement - via @LiminalDodge
Quentessentialism - a proclaimed religion with Ogi Ogas as the prophet
YouTube - via Hank Green, Technology Connections, and Benn Jordan. See also /r/BreadTrube
Entry point to Hank Green’s social engineering work by Defender
UK - via Tom Davenport
Israel - via one family, not in Tel Aviv nor Jerusalem, and one diaspora family
Egypt - via one native muslim family in Alexandria, and one foreigner who teaches at Alsson in Cairo
Missing: Threads, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Twitch streamers, Truth Social
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Other useful nodes that are not in our actively monitored areas:
Bellingcat’s discord server for crowd sourced OSINT
Know your Meme’s discord server where they monitor & document memes
Katherine Dee who essentially does an ongoing census of the internet
See also Joshua Citarella and Etymology Nerd
Samo Burja’s Bismarck Brief - reporting on “live players” in the US economy
See also Matt Levine’s column & Kyla Scan’s youtube shorts
Graphika - reporting on influence operations online
See also Christopher Hadnagy from Social Engineer LLC
Tangle News by Isaac Saul - surfacing best arguments from all sides. Like a curated version of Ground News.
Libpol - “like 4chan but left wing only”
Predictive History (Substack, Youtube) - for a sample of conspiracy theory world
Others: Hasan Piker (twitch, twitter), not sure where to place him here.