Sarah Boutboul

Sarah is a Lead Intelligence Analyst specialising in risk monitoring and foreign malign interference techniques. She draws on an interdisciplinary background with previous career experiences in national security and corporate risk intelligence.

Sarah is a Lead Intelligence Analyst specialising in risk monitoring and foreign malign interference techniques. She draws on an interdisciplinary background with previous career experiences in national security and corporate risk intelligence.

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Narrative Attacks and Manipulated Media Fuel Tensions in the West Philippine Sea

Sarah Boutboul, Dan Patterson

Analysis reveals key narrative attack vectors deployed in the ongoing information war over Ayungin Shoal, one of the world’s most contested maritime frontiers.

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Weaponizing Narrative Influence: How Captain Ibrahim Traoré is Elevated as an Anti-Western Icon Across Nigeria

Sarah Boutboul, Dan Patterson

Narrative attacks amplify calls for coups and anti-Western sentiment in Nigeria by glorifying Burkina Faso’s junta leader, leveraging key TTPs exploiting democratic fragility and regional unrest.

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Social Media Amplifies Pope Francis Health Crisis Narratives

Dan Patterson, Blackbird.AI , Sarah Boutboul

Blackbird.AI analysis reveals sophisticated narratives surrounding Pope Francis's final days, with high bot-like activity and anomalous engagement patterns shaping public perception across social platforms.

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Decoding Electric Vehicle Narrative Attacks: Myths, Facts, and Future Implications

EVs have become central to global narrative attacks. Discover how myths and false narratives shape public perception.

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Airspace Uncertainty: Mapping Competing New Jersey Drone Conspiracy Narratives

Recent sightings of drones over New Jersey and elsewhere have sparked a wave of narratives linking foreign powers and covert government operations. Here’s what it reveals about narrative manipulation in a digital age.

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Narrative Attack Analysis: Coordinated Campaigns Are Targeting Bill Gates

A Blackbird.AI RAV3N analysis reveals how Bill Gates has been targeted by narrative attacks which have undermined public health efforts and amplified conspiracy theories.

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Foreign Influence Operations Target Chad’s 2024 Elections

Sarah Boutboul, Beatrice Titus

Blackbird.AI report exposes coordinated campaigns by pro-Russian networks to manipulate online narratives and shape public perceptions of Chad’s presidential candidates in the lead-up to the pivotal 2024 election.

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The Battle Beyond the Games: Narrative Attacks Targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics

The top narrative attacks targeting the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics reveal coordinated narrative attack campaigns.

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The Cyberattacks That Never Happened: Five Fake Breaches Devised By Cybercriminals

Sarah Boutboul, Beatrice Titus, Thomas Hynes

Organizations face unprecedented challenges protecting against narrative attacks, now a go-to tactic for opportunistic cyber threat actors.

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How Narrative Attacks Muddied Discourse in the Aftermath of the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Emily Kohlman, Sarah Boutboul

Blackbird.AI’s Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform identified five main narratives in the aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, providing additional insight into the anatomy of conspiratorial narratives around domestic tragedies.

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