With just over a week to go until Europe’s investigative journalism conference #Dataharvest26, we’ve compiled a list of the sessions you won’t want to miss — from investigating crypto to tracking the shadow fleet. #EIJC26 ➡️ www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

The compliance industry's data needs are changing. @pudo.org has been writing about how we’ve been using LLMs for watchlist-to-watchlist deduplication, and some of the technical — and ethical — challenges the sector will need to navigate👇 www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

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🔍 The #OSINT landscape can be overwhelming — but the right tools make all the difference. We're featured in this latest guide from @linkurious.bsky.social, alongside a range of resources spanning satellite imagery, domain intel + corporate data. Read more here 👉️ linkurious.com/blog/20-osin...

🌎️ Meet #PoliLoom - our tool that makes it easier to contribute to our #EveryPolitician project: ➡️ It scans #Wikidata + #Wikipedia ➡️ Finds missing data on politicians ➡️ Turns it into quick 5min tasks anyone can do Read 👉️ www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

📢 ICYMI: We recently launched the Beta version of #EveryPolitician, a global #database of political officeholders. Read all about it - or come and help us make it better ➡️ www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

🎉 It’s a good day for the open posse! BrightQuery's #OpenData has teamed up with Senzing to release a comprehensive U.S. dataset containing 86 million organisations, available in #Senzing-ready JSON format. (1/3) ➡️ opendata.org

Our founder @pudo.org recently spoke to 21 Analytics about our #opensource & #investigative DNA and why transparency matters in today's compliance world. Read all about it ➡️ www.21analytics.co/blog/opensan...

🌎 Meet the beta of EveryPolitician: a global database of nearly 700,000 political officeholders, from rulers and lawmakers to judges and more. Built to empower citizens, journalists & researchers to hold governments accountable. Blog post: tinyurl.com/ytdvz6rw Check it out! everypolitician.org

Work in progress, find #opensanctions entities, people or orgs in #telegram data , for example this russian propaganda : t.me/olegtsarov/3... @opensanctions.org

OpenSanctions ↔️ Quantifind: smarter sanctions screening. Learn how our dataset now powers Quantifind’s Graphyte platform. New blog 👉 www.opensanctions.org/articles/202... #RegTech #AML

We’ve published an updated, improved and more deeply documented version of the data model and core data validation stack that drives OpenSanctions. Read more on our blog: www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

Recommended article by @pudo.org @ @opensanctions.org www.opensanctions.org/articles/202... What makes the handling of names in entity resolution so hard? Cultural complexity.

Recent hobby: building up extensive reference data for name matching, including a database of company type filler words, and all human names from Wikidata. Check the open data assets here: opensanctions.github.io/rigour/data/

Weaving politician metadata with LLMs: PoliLoom aims to extract & enrich Wikidata entries for politicians via OpenAI’s structured data API. Explore schema, multilingual handling & conflict resolution. Want to learn more? Join the conversation in our forum and share your thoughts!