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## Good day Deep Divers, Diggers and Researchers!
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##### 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.
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##### Certainly, this collection of resources is by NO MEANS a complete list, there are plenty more out there to discover and employ. 
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##### 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.
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##### It's only right to begin by encouraging diggers to be cautious and to be safe while conducting research. 
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##### 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.
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### _EFF - Surveillance Self-Defense_
#### https://ssd.eff.org/
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### _Privacy and Security Checklist_
##### https://inteltechniques.com/JE/Privacy_Checklists_Feb2019.pdf
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##### Enjoy and Happy Digging!
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## Virtual Private Networks / Virtual Machines / Encryption
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#### PGP
https://www.openpgp.org/
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#### Protonmail.com
https://protonmail.com/
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#### Proton VPN
https://protonvpn.com/
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#### Express VPN (*use at own risk)
https://www.expressvpn.com/
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#### Virtual Box
https://www.virtualbox.org/
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#### VeraCrypt
https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
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#### HTTPS Everywhere
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
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#### Privacy Badger
https://privacybadger.org/
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#### Starttls Everywhere
https://starttls-everywhere.org/
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#### Brave Browser
https://brave.com/
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#### Duck Duck Go
https://duckduckgo.com/
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#### _*TOR (The Onion Router)_ [*WARNING - Many researchers claim TOR is NO LONGER SAFE - Yet, still recommended by EFF]
https://www.torproject.org/
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## Internet Archivers
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#### Internet Archive | Wayback Machine
> building a digital library of Internet

https://archive.org/
https://archive.org/web/
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#### 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

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http://archive.is/
https://archive.li/
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## Internet Trends | Domain Names | Visualization
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#### Domain Name Registration Data Lookup
https://lookup.icann.org/
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#### Muckrack Trends
https://muckrack.com/trends/
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#### Graph Commons
https://graphcommons.com/
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## Public Archives | Leakers & Whistleblowers
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#### WIKILEAKS
https://wikileaks.org/
https://wikileaks.cloud/
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#### OffShore Leaks
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
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#### Panama Papers
https://www.icij.org/
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#### Cryptome
https://cryptome.org/
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#### Public Intelligence
https://publicintelligence.net/
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#### EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/
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#### OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program)
https://www.occrp.org/en
https://aleph.occrp.org/
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#### Investigative Dashboard
https://investigativedashboard.org/
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#### ProPublica (Non-Profits)
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
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#### ProPublica (Credible Accused Priests Database)
https://projects.propublica.org/credibly-accused/
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#### GIJC (2015)
https://gijc2015.org/2015/10/10/top-10-data-research-tools-for-investigative-journalists/
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#### Arms Sales Monitoring
https://fas.org/asmp/profiles/index.html
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## Corporation Ownership and Tracking
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#### Corporation Wiki
https://www.corporationwiki.com/
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#### Little Sis
https://littlesis.org/
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#### Open Corporates
https://opencorporates.com/
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#### 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. 

https://www.opensecrets.org/
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#### Corporate Research Project | Corporate Rap Sheets
https://www.corp-research.org/corporaterapsheets
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#### Wall Street Journal Market Data
https://www.wsj.com/market-data
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#### Drug Watch
https://www.drugwatch.com/
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#### Pharmaceutical Industry Violation Tracker
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/industry/pharmaceuticals
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## Court Records and Documents
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#### PACER
https://www.pacer.gov/
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#### US Courts
https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records
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#### National Centre for State Courts
https://www.ncsc.org/
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#### EPIC - Information on FISA Courts
https://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/fisa/stats/default.html
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#### FootNoted - SEC Filings
https://www.footnoted.com/
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#### Sqoop
https://sqoop.com/
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## Government Public Resources
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#### Government Documents
https://archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments
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#### National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/archived-websites
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#### Government Attic
https://governmentattic.org/
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#### Public Accountability
https://publicaccountability.org/
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#### CIA Reading Room
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/home
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#### FBI Vault
https://vault.fbi.gov/
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#### The Whitehouse 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/
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#### US Spending 
https://www.usaspending.gov/#/
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#### Department of Defense (DOD) Newsroom
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/
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#### Department of Defense (DOD) Contracts
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/
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#### State Department - Reports on Human Trafficking
https://www.state.gov/trafficking-in-persons-report/
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#### Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/news
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#### Inspector General Reports
https://www.oversight.gov/reports
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#### Just the Real News
https://www.justtherealnews.com/
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#### US Census
https://www.census.gov/about/what.html
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#### Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/
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#### EPA - Toxic Release Inventory
https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/find-understand-and-use-tri
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#### USPS - Find Zip Codes
https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action
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#### Federal Procurement Data System
https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/reports.html
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#### US Open Data Portals
https://github.com/sunlightpolicy/opendata/blob/master/USlocalopendataportals.csv
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## FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)
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#### The National Security Archive
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https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/
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#### Muckrock
https://www.muckrock.com/
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#### FOIA Machine
https://www.foiamachine.org/
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#### The Black Vault
https://www.theblackvault.com/
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#### FOIA
https://foia.state.gov/Search/Search.aspx
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#### FOIA Wiki
https://foia.wiki/wiki/Main_Page
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## People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup
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#### Spokeo
https://www.spokeo.com/
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#### Hunter
https://hunter.io/
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## Flight Data
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#### Federal Aviation Adminitration (FAA) Registry
https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/
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#### ADSBexchange (Flight Data)
https://www.adsbexchange.com/
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#### Flight Radar 24
https://www.flightradar24.com/37.6,126.98/8
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## Tools
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#### How To: Investigative Journalism vis
https://learn.ire.org/free-videos/
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#### Image Verification Assistant
http://reveal-mklab.iti.gr/reveal/
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#### Text Fixer (Text Alphabetizer)
https://www.textfixer.com/tools/alphabetize-text-words.php
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#### Subly (Transcripts and Subtitles)
https://www.getsubly.com/
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#### Journalist's Tool Box - Index
https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/
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#### A Journalist's Guide to Web Scraping
https://gijn.org/2015/08/11/web-scraping-a-journalists-guide/?utm_content=buffer34ef6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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#### Podcast Tools
http://toolsforpodcasting.openbooks.wpengine.com/
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#### InVid
https://www.invid-project.eu/
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> 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.

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#### YouTube Data Viewer (Amnesty International)
https://citizenevidence.amnestyusa.org/
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##### 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!!!
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