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SOCMINT Social Media OSINT
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SOCMINT Social Media OSINT

Social Media Investigations and Analysis
Created byJeff Minakata
Last updated 10/2026
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • SOCMINT
  • Social Media investigations
  • OSINT
  • Investigations

Course content

32 sections • 82 lectures • 6h 47m total length

  • Introduction and why learn SOCMINT8:10

    Explore open source intelligence (osint) for social media, learn what publicly available data can reveal—from emails and backgrounds to criminal records—and how professionals use it for safety and investigations.

  • Why SOCMINT3:42

    Explore why socmint matters as social media becomes a wealth of information for fact checking, background checks, and criminal investigations, using open source tools to collect user profiles across platforms.

  • Good sources3:52

    Vet your sources in social media OSINT by verifying information from news outlets, automated tools, and individuals. Assess funding, bias, and credibility, and document verification results.

  • Check your findings4:13

    Verify your open-source intelligence findings by assessing source reliability, cross-checking with trustworthy outlets, and noting uncertainties amid ai-generated misinformation and manipulation.

  • Not always free4:50

    Explain that open source intelligence tools are not always free, and discuss when paid or freemium options speed investigations while all results must be verified.

  • Social Media4:17

    Explore the basics of social media for open source intelligence (OSINT), including extracting usernames, links, birthdays, followers, media, and cross-checking across major platforms to infer personality.

  • Social Media chart5:12

    Explore a universal social media investigations flow chart that guides profiling across platforms—from profile reviews and Internet Archive checks to username searches, data breach checks, posts analysis, and metadata.

  • People Search8:50

    Explore people searches for open source intelligence, uncovering phone numbers, locations, social media, addresses, and employment, plus death records and family trees, to support reconnaissance and spear phishing.

Requirements

  • An internet connection (the ability to install software if you want to setup the optional Bluestacks VM)

Description

Welcome, in this course we will be exploring the exciting world of SOCMINT also known as Social media intelligence. If you are familiar with OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) then you probably are already familiar with the term SOCMINT, if you're not, then don't worry this course is designed to walk you through what SOCMINT is, why it's important, how to keep yourself safe, investigations and much more.

The use of social media has become more and more popular and important. Social media is often times used to communicate with others, get your news, keep up with friends, learn new things, get alerts, and a lot more. Social media can also be used and leveraged for misinformation, disinformation, crimes, stalking, background checks, skiptracing, and much more. The amount of information that can be found on social media is staggering and having the ability to find, curate, and determine what is real and what is fake is a critical skill that people need to have.

In this course we go by step by step in diving into SOCMINT and equally important some safety tips to keep yourself safe during your investigations. This is not a full OSINT course (There are several full OSINT courses on this platform including my own), this takes a part of OSINT concentrating on Social media.

I hope that you will find this informative and useful and please feel free to reach out with any questions (before buying the course, during or after you finish).

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone that wants to learn SOCMINT and social media investigations

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