If Biden’s administration is sincere in its desire to improve wellbeing in LA&C, helping to address the pandemic, promoting fast recovery, and strengthening democracy and freedom, should be the first steps.

Pivoting toward carrying out APEAs remotely during the pandemic creates management, collaboration, and product delivery challenges due to travel limitations, new health and safety considerations, and greater fluidity and uncertainty.

Open-source investigation methodologies can provide marginalized communities another avenue for justice, accountability, and liberation. However, the spread of OSINT knowledge needs to be equitable for communities to benefit.