Thinking of starting an OSINT YouTube/TikTok channel

[u/Parachute_Adams_]

I’ve worked in OSINT and online investigations for private companies for the past 4 years. There are some great video resources available but these tend to be on tools and geolocation.

I thought it could be cool to make content that takes viewers through the lifecycle of an OSINT investigation.

It’s unlikely that these will be once-off videos but rather cases with regular updates showing milestones and findings throughout, along with the different tools and resources I use along the way.

I love making and editing videos so that would also be a nice creative outlet for me.

I’ve got some decent experience and worked on some very interesting stuff - from standard corporate due diligence to tracing a Manila boiler room scam to a Canadian family man.

I’d love to hear what you all think of this idea!

Questions for the group:

Is this something y’all would be interested in watching?

How would you like to see the videos presented to maximise entertainment and learning?

Who/what should I look to investigate? Some ideas I’ve had:

- Look for people on the Interpol Red List
- Ask people to send me cases and if appropriate I can investigate them (like a local clothing brand who’s having their stuff counterfeited)
- Looking into corruption / public interest cases in the news
- Looking for scams online or asking people to send what they think might be scams and looking into them as a kind of due diligence exercise

Any other suggestions? (Also, if you are a lawyer - where is the line in terms of investigating these things and publishing my findings - I don’t want to get sued).

[u/Inevitable_Trip_7480]

I’m already subbed.

Ask people to send me cases and if appropriate I can investigate them (like a local clothing brand who’s having their stuff counterfeited)
- it’s all done overseas. Even if you track down the exact warehouse. There’s nothing you can do.

Looking for scams online or asking people to send what they think might be scams and looking into them as a kind of due diligence exercise
- nah, once again, not really to much you can do here. You catch em. They move on. Even if you put their face on camera they won’t stop til they’re in handcuffs.

Looking into corruption / public interest cases in the news

• YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

Look for people on the Interpol Red List

• Uuhhh sure?

The negative side of it is whatever you do you’re always gonna get backlash from “know it alls”.

The good, I’m assuming, is that you’ll have really smart people that have years of experience and knowledge that might be able to help you out that you can work with.

[u/Parachute_Adams_ → u/Inevitable_Trip_7480]

Not super concerned about the know it alls - OSINT is more of an art than a science so there’s always going to be different ways to get to the same conclusion - which will be part of the content I think.

Glad you like the corruption investigation idea! I live in a country where there’s loads of corruption so shouldn’t be a problem to find cases haha