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OpenSanctions helps investigators find leads, allows companies to manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products.

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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 20/05/2026
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...
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Dataharvest 2026: Sessions you won’t want to miss
Europe’s investigative journalism conference, Dataharvest, brings together reporters and analysts from across the continent to discuss the latest in data journalism and investigative reporting. Here…
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 12/05/2026
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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How LLMs are changing screening
A shift towards narrative matching is redefining the compliance industry's data needs. Here at OpenSanctions, experiments using Large Language Models (LLMs) to deduplicate sanctioned and politically…
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 29/04/2026
If you’re looking for a five-minute briefing on the latest OpenSanctions data, analysis, and news, come and join us over at our newsletter! Next edition goes out tomorrow 👇️ www.opensanctions.org/newsletter/
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 16/04/2026
🔍 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...
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20+ OSINT tools for in-depth investigations
Learn about 20+ useful OSINT tools that can enhance your investigations, and how to integrate them into your workflows.
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 25/03/2026
🌎️ 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...
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Wikidata contains many gaps in its political data. We’ve built a tool to change that
Introducing PoliLoom: our new crowdsourcing tool that breaks common data collection tasks into fun, five-minute contributions. Come and help us track who’s running the world.
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 11/03/2026
📢 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...
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As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power
We’re on a mission to track who runs the world — and to make political data more transparent.
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 06/03/2026
🎉 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
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OpenData — Open Global Entity Graph
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 03/03/2026
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...
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OpenSanctions on Transparent, Open-Source Sanctions Data
21 Analytics interviews OpenSanctions' founder Friedrich Lindenberg on open-source sanctions and PEP data, transparency, and modern compliance.
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 24/02/2026
🌎 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
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As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power
We’re on a mission to track who runs the world — and to make political data more transparent.
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BenB 🇺🇦 @benborges.xyz · 27/11/2025
Work in progress, find #opensanctions entities, people or orgs in #telegram data , for example this russian propaganda : t.me/olegtsarov/3... @opensanctions.org
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 07/08/2025
OpenSanctions ↔️ Quantifind: smarter sanctions screening. Learn how our dataset now powers Quantifind’s Graphyte platform. New blog 👉 www.opensanctions.org/articles/202... #RegTech #AML
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OpenSanctions and Quantifind join forces to deliver sanctions risk prevention tech
We partner with Quantifind to serve high-quality and transparent sanctions data to compliance teams via their AI-powered risk intelligence platform GraphyteTM.
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 14/07/2025
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...
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Announcing FollowTheMoney 4.0
This week, we are releasing version 4.0 of the FollowTheMoney (FtM) toolchain.
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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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.
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More than a Technical Problem: Name Matching in Sanctions Screening
In many fields, a name is just one of many clues you can lean on to pin down an identity. But in sanctions screening, a name might be all you’ve got. This is one of the core parts of our work: matchin...
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 20/06/2025
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/
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Data assets - rigour
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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 09/06/2025
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!
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PoliLoom – Loom for weaving politician's data
PoliLoom Hey there OpenSanctions community! I’m Johan. Friedrich asked me to have a go at some data extraction, and share the development process here, so let’s dive into it together. We’re about to ...
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