As well as creating custom search queries, you can use the available filters to refine your results. Filters are designed to help you narrow your search and find more specific information.

Avoid using filters if you prefer to keep your search broad and include a wider range of results.

The filter section has several filters in it:

• Date range

  Use to identify the start and the end date of your search.

• The list of available filters:

  Select the required filter

  

Learn more about the available filters and how to use them effectively:

• Content Types -

  Select the required Content Types

  

  • Post - Social media posts
  • Article - Website articles
  • Messages - in channels (applicable only for Telegram)
  • Comment - Comments on social media posts
  • Video - Transcripts extracted from video content
  • Repost - Shared or re-published versions of original posts
  • Ad - Paid promotional content, such as Facebook ads

• Language

  Select the required language or use the search function to find it.

  Tip: If you select "Spanish" as the language, the results will include information from all Spanish-speaking countries. To narrow down the results to a specific country, please be sure to specify the desired country in the "Country" field below.

  • Osavul Platform covers over 30 languages.

• Platform

  Use to select the required Platform to define your search. By default, results from all platforms are shown.

  

The table below shows which Content Types are available on each Platform. Some Platforms don’t support certain Content Types. For example, if you choose "Video" with "Facebook," you won’t get any results because we don’t collect videos from Facebook.

• Country

  Select the country or countries of the source origin.

  Tip: Use the Country and Language filters together to refine your search results. For example, selecting Language: Russian and Country: Germany will display content from sources located in Germany that produce content in Russian.

• Actor group

  Use to find groups of actors that have already been created by you or users from your workspace.

  Tip: you can view the available Actor Groups by navigating to the "Actor Groups" page through the side menu.

• Actor

  Use to identify a specific source or sources.

  Tip: you can view the available Actors by navigating to the "Actors" page through the side menu.

• High Risk Accounts

  The High Risk Accounts section includes the following types of account classifications:

  

  • Sanctions account
    • Let’s take a closer look at the methodology used for classifying Sanctions accounts:
  • Information manipulation
    • Let’s take a closer look at the methodologies used for classifying Information manipulation accounts:
  • Hackers / Hacktivists
    • Let’s take a closer look at the methodology used for classifying Information Hackers / Hacktivists accounts:

• Inauthentic behavior

  Use this option if you want to see results shared by actors exhibiting inauthentic behavior, such as bots.

  

• State-affiliated

  Use this if you want to determine whether individual actors or actor groups are affiliated with a specific country or countries.

• Sentiment

  Use the sentiment filter (Positive, Neutral, or Negative) to refine your search based on the tone of the content.

  

Make sure to press Apply to start your search -

Save search results as a Case

To save your search results as a Case for further processing, click -

Provide a Name and Description for the Case. Once saved, the Case will be accessible from the Cases page, which can be opened via the side menu.

• Stories

  The Stories feature is designed to enhance big data analysis. The system analyzes all the messages in the Case and groups them into Stories, considering their semantic similarity, for example:

  • Group together messages that are reposts or variations of an original message
  • Cluster messages that express similar opinions about a specific event
  • Combine messages that cover the same event or narrative into a single story

  Toggle the switcher to the on position if you want to create stories out of the content.