Roberta Duffield

Roberta is the Director of Intelligence at Blackbird.AI. She brings a strong interdisciplinary background to her role, drawing on her previous career experiences in the military, post-conflict humanitarian development, journalism, and corporate risk intelligence, working in the UK and the Middle East.

Roberta is the Director of Intelligence at Blackbird.AI. She brings a strong interdisciplinary background to her role, drawing on her previous career experiences in the military, post-conflict humanitarian development, journalism, and corporate risk intelligence, working in the UK and the Middle East.

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Fear of Flying: Online Narratives Manipulate Public Perception of Aviation Safety

Roberta Duffield

Recent aviation incidents have intensified online narratives about flight safety. While air travel remains one of the safest modes of transportation, the proliferation of manipulated narratives on social media and the news has heightened public anxiety.

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Narrative Attacks as a Global Phenomenon

Roberta Duffield

In mid-May 2020 Blackbird.AI noted a sharp upswing in the manipulation of #WWG1WGA_WORLDWIDE and #WWG1WGA_GLOBAL hashtags.

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From Conspiracy to Capitol Hill: The Great Information Divide

Roberta Duffield

For the last three years BLACKBIRD.AI has been documenting and exposing how pervasive digital influence campaigns built on narrative attacks, conspiracy, and politically polarized rhetoric have effectively come to function as a cyberattack on human perception.

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The Bot Myth: Busted

Roberta Duffield

Sooner or later, any conversation around information security is bound to turn to bots.

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Climate Change and Conspiracy: How Information Disorder Is Warming Our World

Roberta Duffield

The ubiquity of social media and Internet-based communications in recent years has allowed increasingly sophisticated forms of malign information operations to permeate the digital platforms.

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The Global Narrative Attack Cycle: Surveillance Capitalism and Reality

Roberta Duffield

The tech industry has a problem, and its name is Surveillance Capitalism.