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Field notes on online trust.

Plain-spoken writing on romance scams, AI detection, and how to verify the people you meet online — from the team behind TruthHound.

Diffusion models have caught up with human faces. Here's what still gives them away — and what doesn't.

The fastest-growing romance scam of the decade, broken down end-to-end — and the moments where you can still get out.

The five-minute version of due diligence anyone can do, plus the tools that actually work in 2026.

A practical, low-paranoia framework for the moment you start to wonder.

Not soft red flags. Hard ones. If you see three of these, it's a scam — almost without exception.

Eleven seconds of audio is enough to clone almost any voice. The defences haven't caught up — but a few habits help.

The same playbooks adapted to different platforms — and what each app's design tells you about who's running them.

The practical, dignity-preserving conversation script — plus what to do if they're already in.

A field report from a year of scans: which platforms are getting worse, which are getting better, and what's actually changed.

Every detection model has a half-life. Here's why, and how we keep ours honest.

Not lone bad actors. Industrial operations with KPIs, shift schedules, and middle managers. Here's what the inside actually looks like.