Naushad UzZaman

Naushad is the CTO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI and leads a team of highly skilled experts, data scientists, and engineers who discover emergent threats to get ahead of real-world harm. UzZaman is responsible for developing Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Intelligence Platform, and along with his team, he has built a unique series of scalable ML, generative AI, and network analysis solutions that detect rare risk signals of threats.

Naushad is the CTO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI and leads a team of highly skilled experts, data scientists, and engineers who discover emergent threats to get ahead of real-world harm. UzZaman is responsible for developing Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Intelligence Platform, and along with his team, he has built a unique series of scalable ML, generative AI, and network analysis solutions that detect rare risk signals of threats.

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Mission First: How Company Culture Drives Technical Innovation

Naushad UzZaman

Most companies chase product innovation first. Blackbird.AI took a different approach: build a mission-driven team that spans disciplines, continents, and perspectives. The innovation followed naturally.

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Compass Vision Achieves Best Performance in a Rigorous and Highly Realistic Deepfake Detection Evaluation

Abul Hasnat, Yazid Lachachi, Naushad UzZaman

How Blackbird.AI’s digitally manipulated image detector expertly evaluated Deepfake‑Eval 2024, and why that matters for anyone who needs to trust what they see online.

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How Narrative Feed Turns Social Media Chaos Into Actionable Intelligence

Naushad UzZaman, Paul Burkard, Roberta Duffield, Vanya Cohen, John Wissinger

Narrative Feed helps organizations make sense of the chaotic information landscape by detecting and prioritizing full narratives across the social web, instead of isolated posts, giving leaders context and clarity.

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Compass Context: Actionable and Accurate Insights in Seconds

Vanya Cohen, Naushad UzZaman

Analysts face an overwhelming volume of online narratives. Compass Context rapidly identifies key claims, manipulations, and networks, delivering fast, AI-powered insights in seconds.

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Confronting AI-based Narrative Manipulation in 2025: Top Tech Challenges and Solutions

Naushad UzZaman

AI-powered agents can automate narrative manipulation and deepfakes at scale, overwhelming social media platforms and cyber defense systems. Tackling these threats requires innovative technologies and collaborative efforts to safeguard organizations.

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The Invisible Internet: How Russian State Media Evade Sanctions Using Proxy Domains

Brandon Janes, Naushad UzZaman, Paul Burkard

A Blackbird.AI RAV3N analysis reveals that despite EU and US bans, an expansive network of Russian state media sites, like RT, remain online, thanks to an intricate network of lookalike websites.

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Compass Vision: Fighting AI-Generated Deepfakes and Narrative Attacks with Blackbird.AI’s Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform

Naushad UzZaman

AI-generated content can be weaponized by bad actors to create harmful false narratives. Here’s how Blackbird.AI’s Compass Vision and Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform protects organizations by detecting deepfakes and narrative attacks.

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A Storm of Narrative Attacks Impacts FEMA and Victims of Hurricane Milton And Helene

Naushad UzZaman

As FEMA raced to provide aid to communities hit by Hurricane Milton and Helene, the agency and those impacted by these natural disasters also had to battle a barrage of life-threatening narrative attacks

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AI At The Crossroads: The Dual Role In Spreading And Combatting Narrative Attacks

Naushad UzZaman

Artificial intelligence can spread narrative attacks, but it can also combat it. Blackbird.AI's CTO explains why AI experts must work now to reduce polarization, build trust, and expand opportunities to curb false narratives.

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Product Launch: Compass by Blackbird.AI Designed for Navigating Information Overload and Narrative Attacks

Wasim Khaled, Naushad UzZaman

Compass by Blackbird.AI is the “context-layer for the internet,” a groundbreaking AI product designed to help organizations navigate the information overload caused by online narrative attacks.