I do want to mention one more thing. There are more leaks that will be shared in the coming days. Many of which are related to mass censorship, theft, fraud going on at Meta.
This is just one leak related to censorship and Israel. There are still more.
Can you tell us a bit about ICW? Does it have a website? Where does its funding come from? What is NRU?
ICW was created with the purpose of exposing corruption related to government and anything tech related. We focus on high quality investigative work. By quality, I mean actually running experiments and going beyond surface level analysis. While everyone has their own biases/leanings, we try to separate our investigations from our opinions (which we do provide in a clearly labeled separate section, usually called "Discussions").
As you can see from our post timelines, I spend months doing this kind of investigative work. And it takes 100+ hours to do a proper investigation, let alone write the actual report.
You can check out our previous investigations here:
The Youtube Algorithm and Manufacturing Consent (https://archive.org/details/youtube-icw) - We collected the worlds largest Youtube recommendation dataset using a custom built watch bot. We concluded that almost all Youtube users are 1-click away from far-right radicalizing videos.
What can we learn from the Andrew Tate data breach (https://archive.org/details/tate_data_breach/) - We looked at the leaks of Andrew Tate's school and calculated through simulations exactly how much money he was making from the project, and allude to what this may mean for his taxes. We also run a state-of-the-art analysis into what kind of posts people make there, as well as survey the user demographics.
We do not currently have a website. And have had $0 funding so far. So entirely out of pocket. From the beginning we opened donations via BTC and ETH, but didn't receive anything yet.
I am NRU (alias) the lead investigator with a background in AI. I am currently driving the entire investigation for these projects. I occasionally collaborate with Drop Site News and BBC for some of the work we do.
You can contact us with:
- https://bsky.app/profile/icw-nru.bsky.social
- icw_nru@protonmail.com
There are several indications that this is a single person “organization”, and not a true research organization. And that’s okay if the research is actually factual and grounded, but the misrepresentation can be a bit off-putting to some, and many of the methodologies seem flawed for the conclusions drawn. There is a distinct lack of actual scientific rigor that seems to be brushed over with language like “state of the art” and “world’s largest” without any evidence those statements are actually true.
I would recommend considering these findings to be moderate to highly unreliable and entirely unverified due to the lack of scientific rigor. Effectively, it is best to consider this as potential political propaganda, which doesn’t indicate any sort of nefariousness, only that it may be motivated by an agenda to prove something rather than independent analysis.
Will it be another report without citations or an actual leak?