max bernhard

Hi! I’m a journalist and researcher focused on open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques and digital investigations.

I currently work as a journalist for CORRECTIV where I cover disinformation.

Previously, I worked as a freelancer and as a staff reporter for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.

I’ve reported on far-right and fringe groups, dis- and misinformation, as well as environmental and human-rights issues in the UK, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong and Japan. My work has been published in The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, Wired UK, Vice, the BBC and more.

I also teach other journalists how they can use OSINT in their reporting and consult human-rights organisations how they can apply these methods in their work.

selected work:

Inside Doppelganger – How Russia uses EU companies for its propaganda (CORRECTIV)

Hacks and Propaganda: Meet the Two Brothers Bringing Russia’s Cyber War to Europe (CORRECTIV)

Politicians of Germany’s far-right AfD are benefitting from a pro-Russian propaganda campaign. Here is how. (CORRECTIV)

Facebook silent as pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign rages on (CORRECTIV)

Exclusive: Cargo ships dumping oil into the sea go unpunished (DW, The Guardian, Lighthouse Reports)

Inside Osint HK: the secret Hong Kong group tracking protests, the police, and coronavirus (Input Magazine)

contact:

The easiest way to contact me securely is via Signal, where my username is mxbernhard.07. You can find more advice on how to share information with journalists anonymously here.

email me: max.bernhard at protonmail.com or find me here mxbernhard.bsky.social linkedin.com/in/maxbernhard