Investigation

An illicit white cigarette brand sold across the UK, traced to a UAE free zone by one Reddit researcher, and now packaged to pass local inspection.

Reddit banned r/soccerstreams in 2019. It never went away. Inside the 80+ respawned clone subreddits that streamed the 2026 World Cup, and why deleted piracy networks stay legible only in the archive.

In June 2026, Reddit mentions of sextortion hit 220,484, almost seven times the year's baseline. We measured the wave, and read what the victims wrote.

On May 7, 2026, Reform UK won control of ten English councils and became the first party other than Labour to control a London borough in a generation. We searched 30 billion Reddit posts across the days that followed. The archive shows which candidates the vote returned, why the vote actually happened, and what communities discovered only after the results came in.

Within 72 hours of the first hantavirus deaths aboard the MV Hondius, the same accounts, citations, and narrative frameworks that defined Covid-19 misinformation in 2020 were operational again. We tracked the reactivation across 28.5 billion Reddit posts.

An OSINT case study reconstructing an active radicalization timeline from a deleted Reddit account, using a 30 billion post archive that preserves removed content.