🗺️ Monitored Territories

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”

  • See also lighthouses Nosilverv and Orphcorp

• American Academics - via Adam Mastroianni & Slime Mold Time Mold

• Blue Sky - (TODO: who are the Lighthouses here?)

• Crypto - (TODO: who are the Lighthouses here?)

• 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

Appendix

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”