C4ADS
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We're a nonprofit organization with a mission to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security. RT ≠ endorsement. Learn more at https://c4ads.org/.
ICYMI: We just rolled out a design refresh for Horizons, improving visual consistency and accessibility with updated navigation, layout, and modals to help you search and work on a more cohesive interface.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
ICYMI: We just rolled out a design refresh for Horizons, improving visual consistency and accessibility with updated navigation, layout, and modals to help you search and work on a more cohesive interface.
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C4ADS analyst Michael Di Girolamo joined Johns Hopkins SAIS’ Southeast Asia League of Students (SEALS) for a roundtable discussion on the scam industry in Myanmar — introducing the students to our investigative methods using PAI.
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
C4ADS analyst Michael Di Girolamo joined Johns Hopkins SAIS’ Southeast Asia League of Students (SEALS) for a roundtable discussion on the scam industry in Myanmar — introducing the students to our investigative methods using PAI.
ICYMI: Program Director Krista Rasmussen spoke at the ICCF Group’s Inter-Parliamentary Policy Forum, diving deep into distant water squid fishing trends mapped in our recent Pier Pressure commentary.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ICYMI: Program Director Krista Rasmussen spoke at the ICCF Group’s Inter-Parliamentary Policy Forum, diving deep into distant water squid fishing trends mapped in our recent Pier Pressure commentary.
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🚨 C4ADS is hiring! 🚨We currently have three open positions to help us advance global security through data-driven analysis and lead our analytical teams.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨 C4ADS is hiring! 🚨We currently have three open positions to help us advance global security through data-driven analysis and lead our analytical teams.
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The best digital tools are the ones you forget you’re using. Introducing a design refresh for Horizons: maximum power, minimum friction. Coming soon.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The best digital tools are the ones you forget you’re using. Introducing a design refresh for Horizons: maximum power, minimum friction. Coming soon.
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Our camera trap database app helps users classify large volumes of wildlife images captured by camera traps across jurisdictions, recording essential details like date, time, location, and animal behavior to make analyzing this data a breeze. 2/4
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Our camera trap database app helps users classify large volumes of wildlife images captured by camera traps across jurisdictions, recording essential details like date, time, location, and animal behavior to make analyzing this data a breeze. 2/4
As we close out the month, we want to take a moment to spotlight our incredibly powerful camera trap database app — yet another powerful tech tool that our Wildlife Crimes team has created for our partners in the counter-wildlife trafficking movement. 🧵 1/4
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
As we close out the month, we want to take a moment to spotlight our incredibly powerful camera trap database app — yet another powerful tech tool that our Wildlife Crimes team has created for our partners in the counter-wildlife trafficking movement. 🧵 1/4
Your data + our platform = unlimited investigative potential. Soon, you’ll be able to seamlessly integrate your own proprietary data with Horizons in a carefully protected and structured way.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Your data + our platform = unlimited investigative potential. Soon, you’ll be able to seamlessly integrate your own proprietary data with Horizons in a carefully protected and structured way.
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We’ve already highlighted the C4ADS Wildlife Seizure Dashboard and our convening capacity this month, but there’s a lot more to our Wildlife Crimes programs’ digital toolkit — like our bank statement analysis app. 🧵 1/5
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We’ve already highlighted the C4ADS Wildlife Seizure Dashboard and our convening capacity this month, but there’s a lot more to our Wildlife Crimes programs’ digital toolkit — like our bank statement analysis app. 🧵 1/5
This week, C4ADS completed its second regional workshop under a two-year State INL initiative to counter wildlife and timber crimes in Mozambique, Namibia, and Angola -- convening to strengthen cooperation and lay the groundwork for lasting partnerships to fight transnational environmental crime.
October 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This week, C4ADS completed its second regional workshop under a two-year State INL initiative to counter wildlife and timber crimes in Mozambique, Namibia, and Angola -- convening to strengthen cooperation and lay the groundwork for lasting partnerships to fight transnational environmental crime.
Pop quiz: Where did the last data point you saw come from? How was it collected? When was it verified? If you can’t answer these questions, you need a better data dictionary.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Pop quiz: Where did the last data point you saw come from? How was it collected? When was it verified? If you can’t answer these questions, you need a better data dictionary.
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The best investigations platforms don’t just give you data — they give you confidence in that data. That’s why Horizons’ data dictionary shows you acquisition methods, origin stories, and verification dates for everything contained in the platform.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The best investigations platforms don’t just give you data — they give you confidence in that data. That’s why Horizons’ data dictionary shows you acquisition methods, origin stories, and verification dates for everything contained in the platform.
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Why choose between focus and scale? Horizons lets you search hundreds of entities at once, save results to specific projects, export your findings, and collaborate with teammates — all in the same platform.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Why choose between focus and scale? Horizons lets you search hundreds of entities at once, save results to specific projects, export your findings, and collaborate with teammates — all in the same platform.
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Interested in exploring these patterns or accessing this data yourself? Contact us to explore how C4ADS tools can support your analysis, and check out the C4ADS Wildlife Seizure Dashboard at the link below!
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Explore the Dashboard 👇
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October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Interested in exploring these patterns or accessing this data yourself? Contact us to explore how C4ADS tools can support your analysis, and check out the C4ADS Wildlife Seizure Dashboard at the link below!
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Explore the Dashboard 👇
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Our hot take: the best investigative platforms don't just help you find data. They make that data actionable. That's the Horizons promise: bulk search and discovery → saved projects → team collaboration, all in one place.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Our hot take: the best investigative platforms don't just help you find data. They make that data actionable. That's the Horizons promise: bulk search and discovery → saved projects → team collaboration, all in one place.
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This month, we’re spotlighting the data analysis tools our Wildlife Crimes team has created over the years for our partners. First up: the C4ADS Wildlife Seizure Dashboard, a powerful free public resource first launched in 2022. 🧵 1/3
October 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This month, we’re spotlighting the data analysis tools our Wildlife Crimes team has created over the years for our partners. First up: the C4ADS Wildlife Seizure Dashboard, a powerful free public resource first launched in 2022. 🧵 1/3
Just one example of Horizons in action: Thanks to our OCR feature, we were able to quickly examine almost 5k images to map how diverted firearms move from manufacturers to criminal networks in Guatemala.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Just one example of Horizons in action: Thanks to our OCR feature, we were able to quickly examine almost 5k images to map how diverted firearms move from manufacturers to criminal networks in Guatemala.
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What is the human cost behind the cobalt powering your laptop, phone, and electric vehicles? In Cobalt Red, author Siddharth Kara sheds light on exploitation and human rights violations rampant in the mineral’s supply chain, and the effects of that illicit activity on the DRC.
September 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What is the human cost behind the cobalt powering your laptop, phone, and electric vehicles? In Cobalt Red, author Siddharth Kara sheds light on exploitation and human rights violations rampant in the mineral’s supply chain, and the effects of that illicit activity on the DRC.
8 jurisdictions. 14 partners. 100+ investigations since 2023.
Horizons powers real results for our counter-wildlife trafficking community, helping us identify the patterns in this illicit activity that allow us to close enforcement gaps.
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Horizons powers real results for our counter-wildlife trafficking community, helping us identify the patterns in this illicit activity that allow us to close enforcement gaps.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
8 jurisdictions. 14 partners. 100+ investigations since 2023.
Horizons powers real results for our counter-wildlife trafficking community, helping us identify the patterns in this illicit activity that allow us to close enforcement gaps.
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Horizons powers real results for our counter-wildlife trafficking community, helping us identify the patterns in this illicit activity that allow us to close enforcement gaps.
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Last month, we launched Horizons — our next-gen investigative platform built to meet the operational needs of our analysts and partners. A huge thank you to everyone who came out and joined us for our launch!
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August 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Last month, we launched Horizons — our next-gen investigative platform built to meet the operational needs of our analysts and partners. A huge thank you to everyone who came out and joined us for our launch!
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Today is #WorldElephantDay 🐘 — a reminder that protecting elephants is urgent. This year alone, 50+ global ivory seizures totaling ~1,500 kg have already been recorded, an amount that represents the loss of around 75 elephants. 🧵1/3
August 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today is #WorldElephantDay 🐘 — a reminder that protecting elephants is urgent. This year alone, 50+ global ivory seizures totaling ~1,500 kg have already been recorded, an amount that represents the loss of around 75 elephants. 🧵1/3
We built Horizons built to meet the operational realities of C4ADS analysts. It’s shaped by the challenges we face, the workflows we rely on, and the data we’ve collected over more than a decade of investigations into some of the world's most critical challenges. 2/4
July 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We built Horizons built to meet the operational realities of C4ADS analysts. It’s shaped by the challenges we face, the workflows we rely on, and the data we’ve collected over more than a decade of investigations into some of the world's most critical challenges. 2/4
Mark your calendars — Horizons launches July 31st! C4ADS’ new investigative platform built to handle high-volume, cross-jurisdictional data, Horizons is designed for real-world impact and is already used by analysts, journalists, and investigators around the world. 🧵 1/6
July 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mark your calendars — Horizons launches July 31st! C4ADS’ new investigative platform built to handle high-volume, cross-jurisdictional data, Horizons is designed for real-world impact and is already used by analysts, journalists, and investigators around the world. 🧵 1/6
Can AI help stop the sale of looted antiquities?
At the AI+ Expo hackathon, C4ADS built a tool to detect looted Sudanese artifacts on platforms like eBay—using image matching and OpenAI’s reasoning engine to flag listed items and protect cultural heritage in conflict zones.
At the AI+ Expo hackathon, C4ADS built a tool to detect looted Sudanese artifacts on platforms like eBay—using image matching and OpenAI’s reasoning engine to flag listed items and protect cultural heritage in conflict zones.
July 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Can AI help stop the sale of looted antiquities?
At the AI+ Expo hackathon, C4ADS built a tool to detect looted Sudanese artifacts on platforms like eBay—using image matching and OpenAI’s reasoning engine to flag listed items and protect cultural heritage in conflict zones.
At the AI+ Expo hackathon, C4ADS built a tool to detect looted Sudanese artifacts on platforms like eBay—using image matching and OpenAI’s reasoning engine to flag listed items and protect cultural heritage in conflict zones.
Investigations aren’t just about access to data – they're about structure, continuity, and trust in your sources. That’s why we built Horizons, our analyst-inspired platform for unified search, saved workflows, and data transparency. 🧵 1/5
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Investigations aren’t just about access to data – they're about structure, continuity, and trust in your sources. That’s why we built Horizons, our analyst-inspired platform for unified search, saved workflows, and data transparency. 🧵 1/5