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