Good day Deep Divers, Diggers and Researchers!
Today, @deepdives would like to share some incredible resources with you that can help make your research experience more accurate, comprehensive, on-target and rewarding.
Certainly, this collection of resources is by NO MEANS a complete list, there are plenty more out there to discover and employ.
In fact, we encourage any and all members of the Deep Dives Community to add to this list any invaluable archives, databases and resources you believe every DIY investigative researcher should have in their toolbox.
Feel free to add links to your favorites in the comment section.
It's only right to begin by encouraging diggers to be cautious and to be safe while conducting research.
We highly recommend starting off by viewing the Electronic Frontier Foundations's - Surveillance Self-Defense - Guide and also Privacy and Security checklist and making sure that you are regularly using Virtual Private Networks as best practice.
EFF - Surveillance Self-Defense
https://ssd.eff.org/
Privacy and Security Checklist
https://inteltechniques.com/JE/Privacy_Checklists_Feb2019.pdf
Enjoy and Happy Digging!
Virtual Private Networks / Virtual Machines / Encryption
PGP
Protonmail.com
Proton VPN
Express VPN (*use at own risk)
Virtual Box
VeraCrypt
https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
HTTPS Everywhere
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Privacy Badger
Starttls Everywhere
https://starttls-everywhere.org/
Brave Browser
Duck Duck Go
*TOR (The Onion Router) [*WARNING - Many researchers claim TOR is NO LONGER SAFE - Yet, still recommended by EFF]
Internet Archivers
Internet Archive | Wayback Machine
building a digital library of Internet
https://archive.org/
https://archive.org/web/
Archive.today
Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages!
It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears.
It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy
and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page
http://archive.is/
https://archive.li/
Internet Trends | Domain Names | Visualization
Domain Name Registration Data Lookup
Muckrack Trends
Graph Commons
Public Archives | Leakers & Whistleblowers
WIKILEAKS
https://wikileaks.org/
https://wikileaks.cloud/
OffShore Leaks
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
Panama Papers
Cryptome
Public Intelligence
https://publicintelligence.net/
EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program)
https://www.occrp.org/en
https://aleph.occrp.org/
Investigative Dashboard
https://investigativedashboard.org/
ProPublica (Non-Profits)
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
ProPublica (Credible Accused Priests Database)
https://projects.propublica.org/credibly-accused/
GIJC (2015)
https://gijc2015.org/2015/10/10/top-10-data-research-tools-for-investigative-journalists/
Arms Sales Monitoring
https://fas.org/asmp/profiles/index.html
Corporation Ownership and Tracking
Corporation Wiki
https://www.corporationwiki.com/
Little Sis
Open Corporates
Open Secrets
Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
Corporate Research Project | Corporate Rap Sheets
https://www.corp-research.org/corporaterapsheets
Wall Street Journal Market Data
https://www.wsj.com/market-data
Drug Watch
Pharmaceutical Industry Violation Tracker
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/industry/pharmaceuticals
Court Records and Documents
PACER
US Courts
https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records
National Centre for State Courts
EPIC - Information on FISA Courts
https://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/fisa/stats/default.html
FootNoted - SEC Filings
Sqoop
Government Public Resources
Government Documents
National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/archived-websites
Government Attic
Public Accountability
https://publicaccountability.org/
CIA Reading Room
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/home
FBI Vault
The Whitehouse
US Spending
https://www.usaspending.gov/#/
Department of Defense (DOD) Newsroom
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/
Department of Defense (DOD) Contracts
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/
State Department - Reports on Human Trafficking
https://www.state.gov/trafficking-in-persons-report/
Department of Justice
Inspector General Reports
https://www.oversight.gov/reports
Just the Real News
https://www.justtherealnews.com/
US Census
https://www.census.gov/about/what.html
Library of Congress
EPA - Toxic Release Inventory
https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/find-understand-and-use-tri
USPS - Find Zip Codes
https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action
Federal Procurement Data System
https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/reports.html
US Open Data Portals
https://github.com/sunlightpolicy/opendata/blob/master/USlocalopendataportals.csv
FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)
The National Security Archive
Muckrock
FOIA Machine
The Black Vault
https://www.theblackvault.com/
FOIA
https://foia.state.gov/Search/Search.aspx
FOIA Wiki
https://foia.wiki/wiki/Main_Page
People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup
Spokeo
Hunter
Flight Data
Federal Aviation Adminitration (FAA) Registry
https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/
ADSBexchange (Flight Data)
Flight Radar 24
https://www.flightradar24.com/37.6,126.98/8
Tools
How To: Investigative Journalism vis
https://learn.ire.org/free-videos/
Image Verification Assistant
http://reveal-mklab.iti.gr/reveal/
Text Fixer (Text Alphabetizer)
https://www.textfixer.com/tools/alphabetize-text-words.php
Subly (Transcripts and Subtitles)
Journalist's Tool Box - Index
https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/
A Journalist's Guide to Web Scraping
Podcast Tools
http://toolsforpodcasting.openbooks.wpengine.com/
InVid
InVID will build a platform providing services to detect, authenticate and check the reliability and accuracy of newsworthy video files and video content spread via social media.
YouTube Data Viewer (Amnesty International)
https://citizenevidence.amnestyusa.org/
FYI - @deepdives plans on providing periodical updated versions of Research Resources
Members of the Community are ENCOURAGED to SHARE their methods, favorite tools and "How To" tutorials in their own posts!!!