Digital Digging with Henk van Ess
Henk van Ess, Alex Mahadevan, Craig SilvermanHenk van Ess is an international expert in online research methods utilizing the web and AI. This newsletter has members from organizations such as BBC, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NBC, Oracle, New York Times and Washington Post. Join now.
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Detectives, Detectors and Deceptions
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I am looking at a discharge summary. My job is to figure out if this document is real. March 16, 2026, 23:01. A girl walks into a children’s hosp...
How I Taught AI to Catch Fakes I Can't See
From side project to newsroom tool in twelve months
Imagewhisperer.org, my pet project to detect fake images, is one year old. In January, I wrote about why AI detection fails on the fakes that matter most. Denis Teyssou broke the tool wit...
Visual investigations: here's how to do it.
"60 to 70% of visual forensics is human, not tech,” says Henk van Ess
Video has become one of the most powerful forms of evidence in modern journalism. At the exact same moment, AI is making that evidence easier to fake and easier to manip...
A lawyer, a road inspector and a cardiologist walk into a coding competition. So did I. This is no longer a joke.
I apologized for not being a coder. Some answered: me neither.
We all built software last week. None of us is a professional coder. A US lawyer cracked California's housing crisis. A Belgian cardiologist's code helps him fix hearts. A guy...
The State of Online Search: How to Find What You're Looking For in the Age of AI
Operators still work, AI can help, and the “hard way” is now the only way.
In early January, YouTube announced it was “enhancing the search experience” by updating its filters. The platform renamed “View count” to “Popularity” — results we...
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