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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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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From “End Times” To “Tectonic Weapons”: Unpacking Narratives Around The Earthquake That Rocked New York

Emily Kohlman, Sarah Boutboul, Rennie Westcott

Blackbird.AI's narrative intelligence technology and RAV3N research team identified key conspiratorial narratives following the recent earthquake and solar eclipse, providing insights into the anatomy of misinformation and disinformation during news events.

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The Navalny Narrative: Using Compass By Blackbird.AI To Expose The Narrative Attack Machine

Jessica Terry, Sarah Boutboul, Rennie Westcott

Blackbird.AI's RAV3N Narrative Intelligence and Research Team reveals the tactics used by hyper-agenda-driven communities to spread false narratives about Navalny's death.

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Conspiracy Theories Abound Ahead of Nationwide Emergency Alert System Test

Thomas Hynes, Sarah Boutboul, Dan Patterson, Dan Lowden

Viral narratives proliferate online, asserting that 5G, the COVID-19 vaccine, and the EAS alert are part of a government conspiracy to trigger the zombie apocalypse.