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Social Media ExposedBy: Alexei Sisulu Abrahams Learn to build a web app that can monitor millions of posts across all social media platforms to chart public opinion in real time. Social media has become our modern day agora, the place where we get our news and engage in political discourse. With disinformation, hate speech, foreign interference, authoritarianism, market monopolization, and political polarization all on the rise, monitoring social media in the public
By: Alexei Sisulu AbrahamsLearn to build a web app that can monitor millions of posts across all social media platforms to chart public opinion in real time.
Social media has become our modern-day agora, the place where we get our news and engage in political discourse. With disinformation, hate speech, foreign interference, authoritarianism, market monopolization, and political polarization all on the rise, monitoring social media in the public interest has never been so difficult nor so urgent. Social Media Exposed is an in-depth beginner’s guide to coding full-stack web applications in Python to track and analyze social media activity at scale, giving you unparalleled insights into the cultural and political conversations of our time, then empowering you to reach your own conclusions.
You’ll start by coding a web app to monitor Russian disinformation channels discussing Ukraine on Telegram, then learn more adversarial methods to scrape the Wayback Machine, Instagram, and TikTok. You’ll detect Twitter bots following Saudi influencers, extract text-embedded URLs to reveal a white supremacist blogosphere, parse archived tweets to reveal the discourse leading up to the January 6 insurrection, and learn to circumvent Meta's and ByteDance's defenses to scrape Instagram and TikTok, collecting evidence of war crimes in the Middle East. Finally, you’ll write an API and deploy your observatory to a cloud server to collaborate with other investigators. By the end of the book, you’ll have a working website that allows collaborators to log in, request data collection, and perform analysis of collected data, via a point-and-click interface.
Along the way, you’ll learn to:
- Use Python and RabbitMQ to retrieve Telegram data from a remote API
- Store data with PostgreSQL and query it with SQLAlchemy
- Analyze the data you’ve retrieved with Pandas, NetworkX, Gephi, and other tools
- Use state-of-the-art AI tools to transcribe audio and classify text
- Deploy a website with an interactive dashboard using FastAPI, Dash, Cytoscape, Uvicorn, Gunicorn, Nginx, AWS, and Let’s Encrypt
- Containerize your apps with Docker and provision infrastructure with Pulumi
Whether you’re a citizen scientist, a security researcher, a journalist, an activist, or a scholar, Social Media Exposed is an essential blueprint for building your window into online worlds.
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★★★★★ 5
Quality as promised.
Color: Rustic Montana, Size: 10.5" x 7" x 1.5"
Nice ! I am very pleased with this product. I like that its American made. The size is actually just right for what I needed. I will buy other products from this company when ready.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Great item, BUT…
Color: Bootlegger Brown, Size: 10.5" x 7" x 1.5", Color: Bootlegger Brown, Size: 10.5" x 7" x 1.5"
Do I love it? Yes.
Is it well made? It certainly appears to be.
Is the leather thick? Yes, I’d say definitely thick and sturdy.
Do I like the color (Bootlegger Brown)? Of course I do, it’s gorgeous.
It seems very well made. The corners are secured with black fasteners, which I think are going to better than the buttons in the long run that I’ve seen on others. It’s was this brand, or Hide and Drink for me. I went with these guys because it’s U.S. made, and hopefully American sourced leather.
I bought the Large. My concern was that the XL might be too large for my nightstand. I measured it out and everything. However, I was not counting on the length and width to be measured from the end of the pinched corners, so I was a little disappointed about the size of the useable surface area. It’s not a big deal, but I wish that I’d have just spent the extra $5 and got the XL. If I we’re to get another, I definitely go with the XL unless you just want something on the smallish side, but still I suspect that they are larger that what most others are offering. At least these guys give you a choice of options.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Valet Tray Worth the Price
Color: Bootlegger Brown, Size: 10.5" x 7" x 1.5"
Product well packaged and is exactly as advertised. Great quality and workmanship. Bought for my husband and he really likes it.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Awesome EDC Organization
Color: Avalanche Gray, Size: 11.5" x 8" x 2"
Awesome! Great addition to the nightstand to keep stuff organized
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Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2026
★★★★★ 5
It holds all my gear and looks fantastic!!
Color: Rustic Montana, Size: 11.5" x 8" x 2", Color: Rustic Montana, Size: 11.5" x 8" x 2"
I wanted something to hold EVERYTHING. In the pic - 2 wallets, tactical flashlight, 2 personal bluetooth speakers, 2 pairs of Beats, chap stick, pocketknife. Missing are my reading glasses but they typically will fit in there too even in their protective sleeve. This would make a great gift and the leather is excellent feel and look. This is the Extra Large size and i am happy i went with the bigger one as i almost didnt. Wife thought it was a great purchased but mad that she didnt get the chance to gift it to me for Father's Day or birthday!! LOL
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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024