How I created an ML model to uncover drug-trafficking on Telegram

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I scraped 500,000 messages from 1,500 Telegram channels using Telethon and a snowballing method, then built a Doc2Vec classifier trained on 300 manually labeled drug ads to identify advertisements at scale. The investigation showed that Poland’s online drug market runs on Telegram, InPost parcel lockers, and BLIK — the full story is here, and below is how I built it.

Mapping Russia's War Machine on NATO's Doorstep

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

We used high-resolution satellite imagery to map Russian military base activity along NATO’s eastern border. GRU special forces in Kaliningrad are being trained for sabotage operations, and new nuclear weapons infrastructure is taking shape in Belarus.

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How I created an ML model to uncover drug-trafficking on Telegram

Mapping Russia's War Machine on NATO's Doorstep