GNET (Global Network on Extremism & Tech): Intelligence Source Guide
GNET is the academic research arm of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, led by ICSR at King's College...
Disinformation / IO
Keyword / Narrative: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A keyword is a hypothesis about language. Track the wrong string and you will measure nothing at all, very confidently....
Video: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A video is not evidence of what its caption claims. It is a container of measurable facts, and those facts...
Image / Photograph: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Every photograph makes two claims: this is what it shows, and this is where and when it was taken. Both...
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
Username / Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
People change platforms, phones and email providers. They almost never change the handle they picked at fifteen. That inertia is...
URL: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A URL is the only artifact that carries the attacker instruction set in plain sight. Parse it properly and it...
Domain Name: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A domain name is the cheapest thing an adversary buys and the most expensive thing for them to keep clean....
News Intelligence (NEWSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Reporting is evidence of what was published, by whom, when and sourced how. Treated that way it is one of...
Disinformation Intelligence (DISINFOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The finding is rarely that a claim is false. It is that a set of accounts, sites and outlets behaved...
Election Intelligence (ELECTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An election is the most predictable high-risk event on any calendar: fixed date, known actors, published rules. Election intelligence is...
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Open source is not free intelligence. It is unvalidated raw material available to anyone, including your adversary, and the discipline...
Disinformation / IO: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two hundred accounts posted the same seven-word phrase within ninety seconds. None of them had existed six weeks earlier. The...
Election Security & PSYOP: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The claim that the count was rigged was already trending three weeks before polls opened. The infrastructure held perfectly. The...
Conflict & Humanitarian: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The first measurable sign of a coming famine is usually not hunger. It is a market price series breaking from...
Extremism & Radicalization: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Radicalisation is not a conveyor belt. It is a set of grievances, communities and content economies, and most of what...
Emerging Technology & AI Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The finance team approved the transfer because they recognised the chief executive on the call. Voice, face and cadence were...
Nation State: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
State activity rarely arrives labelled. It surfaces as a procurement order routed through a third-country freight forwarder, a research institute...
