Bellingcat have created/linked a load of social media and web network analysis tools. Useful if you want to analyse someone, worth knowing about if you post on social media.
Examples:
Socnet Dynamic Image Search, developed by the developer Ulysses, is a tool for identifying VK social media accounts of interest. The tool generates a social network by scraping the profile of a specified VK account and that account’s friends and friends of friends. It then uses
OpenAI’s clip model to allow users to search for accounts within that network that posted pictures matching a given phrase, for example “soldier” or “flag”. Judges liked how well the image search worked, and the clear applicability of the tool to open-source investigations involving the Russian-language internet. This tool could be used if a researcher has a VK account of a Russian soldier and wants to find the accounts of other soldiers associated with them.
Graphinator, developed by Alex Trefilov, is a tool for creating network graphs. It allows users to add, edit, and remove nodes, export the graph visualisation and expand the graph using built-in scraping modules, including a Twitter scraper.
Sugartrail, developed by Sean Greaves, is an interface to the UK business registry,
Companies House, that allows users to find companies and individuals that are connected in various ways, for example companies with the same individual on their board or companies registered to the same address.