Protecting Leaders from Narrative Attacks: A TAG Infosphere Interview with Blackbird.AI’s Wasim Khaled

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Executives face unprecedented risk from harmful narratives. Deepfakes and coordinated narrative attack campaigns can destabilize reputations and disrupt markets within minutes. In this exclusive interview, TAG Infosphere CEO Ed Amoroso sits down with Blackbird.AI CEO Wasim Khaled to discuss the rise of AI-enabled narrative attacks targeting executive leaders and organizations. Khaled explains how Blackbird.AI’s artificial intelligence technology analyzes deceptive online content and equips organizations with high-fidelity, real-time actionable insights that counter these emerging threats.

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ED AMOROSO – TAG: How does Blackbird.AI’s Constellation Platform empower executives to anticipate and mitigate the risks of harmful narratives targeting their organizations?

WASIM KHALED – BLACKBIRD.AI: Narrative attacks are a new threat vector targeting executives and organizations that cause financial and reputational harm. We created our Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform to enable organizations to understand the harmful narratives caused by misinformation, disinformation, and deepfakes targeting their executives, organization, and industry, the influence behind them, the networks they infect, the anomalous–bot– behavior that scales them, and the cohorts and communities (threat actors, cybercriminals, nation states) that connect and amplify them. This has enabled our customers to make better strategic decisions with real data, especially during times of crisis, to reduce risk and financial and reputational harm to their organization. The top narrative attack use cases we help organizations reduce risk and financial and reputation harm include Crisis events, executive protection, cyberattacks, brand protection, stock manipulation, financial market risk, mergers and acquisitions, breaches, geopolitical risk, physical risk, supply chain and critical infrastructure, environmental, labor relations, and insider threats. 

ED AMOROSO: How do the Compass Context and Compass Vision enhance narrative threat detection and decision-making for organizations facing complex, multilingual narrative attacks?

WASIM KHALED: Compass Context lets you gain context and clarity of any online claim, article link, or supported social media post or video. Compass Vision enables deep fake image and video detection, providing a clear ‘AI-Generated’ or ‘Not AI-Generated’ assessment score.

When you ask Compass Context a question or paste any link, it processes a query in real-time from thousands of sources, checks claims, analyzes results, and generates an accurate,easy-to-understand answer with footnotes and citation links from trusted sources. Compass Vision enables deep fake image and video detection, providing a clear ‘AI-Generated’ or ‘Not AI-Generated’ assessment score. With the increasing availability of AI tools in the hands of threat actors to create better and better deepfake images and videos, the challenge of recognizing what has been manipulated will only increase. Even more important is when a deepfake becomes a harmful narrative, the risk to the executive and the company increases exponentially. When Constellation, Compass Context, and Compass Vision are combined. It allows organizations to identify misinformation, disinformation deepfakes, and the harmful narratives that sprout from them so that they can take action to reduce executive and company risk significantly.

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ED AMOROSO: How does Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Feed enable C-suite leaders to stay informed about emerging risks and respond proactively to potential reputational or financial harm?

WASIM KHALED: Narrative Feed leverages our AI-based technology to quickly summarize and prioritize real-time risks and threats about emerging harmful narratives. It leverages the trillions of online engagements our Constellation Platform analyzes each month, providing concise, actionable intelligence in a summarized form that is easy for executives to understand and take action on.

ED AMOROSO: With rising executive security concerns, how does Blackbird.AI help organizations analyze and neutralize coordinated online campaigns that might endanger individual leaders or corporate brands?

WASIM KHALED: Blackbird.AI identifies narrative attacks that are targeting executives and corporate brands, who is behind them (Cybercriminals, nation-states, threat actors), the networks they infect, the anomalous–bot–behavior that scales them, and the cohorts and communities that connect and amplify them. Having visibility into these harmful narratives as they escalate enables organizations to reduce risk and protect their leaders and brands significantly. Our RAV3N Narrative Intelligence Team is a diverse group of intelligence investigators who work with our customers to provide deeper insights into the most impactful narrative attacks. They have data science, national security, cybersecurity, journalism, OSINT, and communications backgrounds and are power users of the Blackbird.AI Constellation Platform and our custom toolkits.

They also offer deep investigations and reporting, advanced benchmarking, learning programs, and professional services to boost our customers’ narrative defense strategy. Our platform and RAV3N Team service complement any cybersecurity and physical security teams protecting executives and the company’s brand.

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ED AMOROSO: As we are now in 2025, what narrative attack trends are you seeing that executives should be aware of and prepare for?

WASIM KHALED: In 2025, every executive and organization that creates shareholder value will be a target and is at risk. AI-powered tools, hyper agenda-driven information campaigns, and generative content creation have made it easier than ever for threat actors, cybercriminals, and nation-states to target executives and organizations by manipulating public opinion on a massive scale. Organizations face a new threat vector of risk from harmful narrative attacks that manipulate public perception, destabilize stock prices, and erode stakeholder trust within minutes. Synthetic media, deepfakes, and AI-generated narratives are being used to fabricate press releases, forge executive communications across text and video conferences, or stage false crises, leaving organizations with a significant blind spot and scrambling to respond in real-time. Threat intelligence providers do not offer protection from narrative attacks. Narrative intelligence fills a massive cybersecurity gap. That’s why we created Blackbird.AI to help global organizations fight back.

LEARN MORE: The World Economic Forum recently ranked narrative attacks created by misinformation and disinformation as the #1 global risk for the second consecutive year. Harmful narratives also fan the flames of the top five risks, including extreme weather, state-based armed conflict, societal polarization, and cyber espionage. Check out the report here.

The Way Forward – Actionable Next Steps

As narrative attacks evolve, executives and organizations must adapt their defense strategies to stay resilient. Here are five actionable steps experts can take to fortify their defenses against these emerging threats:

Adopt Comprehensive Narrative Intelligence: Implement the Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform to monitor and analyze harmful narratives in real-time, ensuring you stay one step ahead of threat actors.

Validate Online Claims Quickly: Use Compass Context to assess the credibility of online claims and sources, empowering your team to make data-driven decisions during crises.

Detect Deepfakes with Precision: Leverage Compass Vision for accurate identification of AI-generated content, mitigating the risk of manipulated media affecting your reputation.

Stay Informed with Real-Time Alerts: Integrate our Narrative Feed into your security operations to receive succinct, actionable insights on emerging threats as they develop.

By following these steps, you’re protecting your organization from emerging threats and positioning yourself at the forefront of proactive, AI-enabled risk management.

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