2023 main update

Author: MetaOSINT

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-        <p style="text-align:center;padding:0px 0px 8px 0px">Click into & out of the circles to zoom. <i style="text-decoration:underline">Note</i><i>: The 3rd layer (blue text) contains live links!</i> See also the <a href="https://metaosint.github.io/learn-more#tutorial" target="_blank">tutorial</a>, or switch to the <a href="https://metaosint.github.io/table">searchable table</a>.</p>
+        <p style="text-align:center;padding:0px 0px 8px 0px">Click into & out of the circles to zoom. <i style="text-decoration:underline">Note</i><i>: The 3rd layer (blue text) contains live links to unvetted sites!</i> See also the <a href="https://metaosint.github.io/learn-more#tutorial" target="_blank">tutorial</a>, or switch to the <a href="https://metaosint.github.io/table">searchable table</a>.</p>
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         <h2>What is OSINT?</h2>
-          <p>Open source intelligence (“OSINT”) is intelligence derived from open sources. Intelligence refers to raw information that has been analyzed or contextualized. Open source refers to information that virtually anyone can access, usually over the internet.</p>
+          <p>Open source intelligence (“OSINT”) is <b><i>intelligence derived from open sources</i></b>. <b><i>Intelligence</i></b> refers to raw information that has been analyzed or contextualized. <b><i>Open source</i></b> refers to information that virtually anyone can access, usually over the internet.</p>
           <p>OSINT’s definition is often extended to other forms of information/data, which may be publicly available and <a href="https://www.popsci.com/technology/data-brokers-explained/" target="_blank">“free”</a>, but which require something like registering with an email in order to obtain it.</p>
         <h2>What is MetaOSINT?</h2>
           <p>MetaOSINT is a free and openly available aggregation of "top" tools & resources intended to help jumpstart OSINT investigations. MetaOSINT was built by a former OSINT analyst & investigator to help answer questions like "I wonder if there’s a way to find __ specific piece of information online?"</p>
-          <p>By compiling and prioritizing among thousands of tools and resources, MetaOSINT seeks to help OSINT practitioners intuitively surface the most relevant resources much more quickly. MetaOSINT was published in June 2021 and received <a href="https://twitter.com/IntelScott/status/1538865427736059904" target="_blank">major updates</a> around its first anniversary.</p>
-          <p>It's like OSINT on OSINT - so <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta" target="_blank">meta</a>!</p>
+          <p>By compiling and prioritizing among thousands of tools and resources, MetaOSINT seeks to help OSINT practitioners intuitively surface the most relevant resources much more quickly. MetaOSINT was published in 2021 and received two rounds of major updates in 2022 & 2023.</p>
         <h2 id="contribute">Contribute</h2>
-          <p>MetaOSINT now invites contributions from the community! Thank you for helping expand this resource. If you have a great OSINT tool or site that isn't included yet, please submit the details via <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKpAeCM0OgnvFxhIZFp1IGoRrlsh_zr9PmuHQVLkuDVhagig/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">this form</a>:</p>
+          <p>MetaOSINT welcomes contributions from the community! If you have a great OSINT tool or site that isn't included yet, please submit the details via <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKpAeCM0OgnvFxhIZFp1IGoRrlsh_zr9PmuHQVLkuDVhagig/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">this form</a>:</p>
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         <h2 id="methodology">Methodology</h2>
-          <p>MetaOSINT v2 contains resources from three source buckets, which vary in confidence level and potential bias:</p>
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-              <li><strong>MetaOSINT</strong>: In 2021, the project's author conducted a survey of nearly 30 <a href="https://github.com/MetaOSINT/MetaOSINT.github.io/blob/main/docs/lists.md" target="_blank">lists</a> of OSINT tools & resources, with a goal of identifying overlapping concentrations of tools. The lists contained a staggering 17,000 source links, 11,000 of which were unique. The v1 MetaOSINT dataset highlighted 4,800+ of these resources cited multiple times across the lists, as well as a few hundred more cited once and with some discernible topic/categorization. Resources derived from this bucket contain a citation count in the <a href="https://metaosint.github.io/table" target="_blank">table feature.</a></li>
-              <li><strong>Social Share</strong>: v2 introduces mechanisms to poll social media platforms for potentially relevant resources as a way of continuing to expand the dataset. There is some potential for noise/false positives/less-relevant results here, but initial test sets have provided a useful supplement to the v1 data.</li>
-              <li><strong>Manual</strong>: To fill remaining data gaps, a small number of resources will be added manually.</li>
-          </ul>
-        <h2>Inspiration & Acknowledgments</h2>
-          <ul>
-              <li>Thanks to all OSINT community members who build, compile, and freely share tools & resources, especially the publishers of the <a href="https://github.com/MetaOSINT/MetaOSINT.github.io/blob/main/docs/lists.md" target="_blank">lists</a> that fed the v1 dataset.</li>
-          </ul>
+          <p>MetaOSINT contains resources from three source buckets.</p>
+          <p>Sources with the <b>MetaOSINT</b> label are the core of the dataset. The MetaOSINT project takes a broad survey of OSINT tools & resources <i>that are referenced on other OSINT-focused websites & lists</i>. By highlighting the tools/resources that overlap the most across these other sources (the “<a href="https://metaosint.github.io/table" target="_blank">citation count</a>”), the project aims to help practitioners more easily surface the “most popular” OSINT resources out of the massive body that exist in the landscape today.</p>
+          <p>The MetaOSINT dataset originally derived from a survey by the project’s author of nearly 30 <a href="https://github.com/MetaOSINT/MetaOSINT.github.io/blob/main/docs/lists.md" target="_blank">lists</a> of OSINT tools & resources, which contained nearly 5,000 source links referenced in multiple lists. v3 (December 2023) added another large batch of sources referenced across OSINT-focused bookmark collections, more than doubling the total number of sources tracked. Aggregation from the <a href="https://smart.myosint.training/" target="_blank">SMART project</a> was invaluable here – that dataset was then further refined to resources matching the existing MetaOSINT <a href="https://github.com/MetaOSINT/MetaOSINT.github.io/blob/main/docs/categories.md" target="_blank">category classifications</a> and ones mentioned multiple times.</p>
+          <p>A small number of resources in the MetaOSINT dataset derive from automated polling of social media platforms in 2022. These are labeled <b>Social Share</b>. A final small set comes from manual additions and are labeled <b>Manual</b>.</p>
+        <h2>Acknowledgments</h2>
+          <p>Thanks to all OSINT community members who build, compile, and freely share tools & resources!</p>
         <h2 id="shoutouts">Praise for MetaOSINT</h2>
           <p>
             <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here are over 4000 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OSINT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OSINT</a> resources 👀. What a goldmine!<br><br>Use responsibly.<a href="https://t.co/sYyRYnwHxF">https://t.co/sYyRYnwHxF</a></p>&mdash; SpiderFoot (@spiderfoot) <a href="https://twitter.com/spiderfoot/status/1528581232715517952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>