Blackbird.AI Partners With World Wide Technology To Protect Enterprises And Executives From Narrative Attacks
Strategic alliance brings narrative intelligence to global companies to combat misinformation, disinformation, and AI-generated deepfakes that cause financial, operational, and reputational harm.
New York, NY and Reston, VA – July 29th, 2025 – Blackbird.AI, the leader in AI-driven narrative intelligence and Word Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution, today announced a strategic alliance to bring narrative intelligence to global enterprises. Together, WWT and Blackbird.AI will enable cybersecurity and risk teams to protect their organization and executives from narrative attacks created by misinformation, disinformation, and deepfakes, which have emerged as the #1 global risk for the second year in a row, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025.
“Cyber risk isn’t just technical anymore. It’s psychological. It’s social. It’s operational. And most companies have no visibility into the narrative threats forming around them, until it’s too late. If we want to build resilient organizations, we need to stop thinking about ‘users’ as the weakest link and start protecting people as the first layer of defense,” said Chris Konrad, Vice President, Global Cyber at WWT. “This is why we chose to partner with Blackbird.AI as their Narrative Intelligence Platform is leading the industry to protect global companies and national security organizations from this new critical threat vector of narrative attacks. They’re redefining how we detect and defend against influence operations, misinformation campaigns, and synthetic media, protecting reputation and truth in a world where digital perception is at risk.”
“As sophisticated actors weaponize narratives and deepfakes, cybersecurity must evolve beyond protecting systems to safeguarding perception itself: The next breach will target your narrative and your network,” said Wasim Khaled, CEO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI. “We are excited to partner with WWT to accelerate the adoption of AI-based Narrative Intelligence. Together, we will protect organizations from narrative attacks and help them make better strategic decisions to reduce risk, especially during times of crisis.”
Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Intelligence Platform provides actionable and in-depth insights into the who, what, where, and why behind harmful narrative attacks, enabling the mapping of threat actors, amplification networks, and affected communities in real-time. Top narrative intelligence use cases include:
- Crisis Management
- Executive Protection
- Cyber attacks (or fake ones)
- Brand Reputation/Risk
- Geopolitical incidents
- Supply Chain Risk
- Critical Manufacturing
- Critical Infrastructure
- Insider Threat
- Foreign Malign Influence
- Due Diligence/M&A
- Financial Market Crisis
- Influence Campaigns
- Stock Manipulation
Recently, Blackbird.AI was named by Forrester Research, Inc., as the only notable provider to support protection against narrative attacks in the Forrester’s report, The External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Landscape, Q1 2025, named a winner of Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech 2024 in the AI and Data category, winner of the SINET16 Innovation Award and Khaled was featured in a keynote at Fortune Brainstorm Tech called Perception, Lies and AI. The company also launched Compass Context to provide clarity to any online claim, article link, or supported social media post or video and Compass Vision to identify AI-generated images and videos to complement its AI-driven Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform.
To learn more about the new partnership between Blackbird.AI and WWT, see our blog here.
About World Wide Technology
Founded in 1990, World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. WWT combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for organizations around the globe. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world’s most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.
With over 12,000 employees across WWT and Softchoice and more than 60 locations around the world, WWT’s culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 14 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and creating a great place to work for all.
About Blackbird.AI
Blackbird.AI protects organizations and executives from narrative attacks that cause financial, operational and reputational harm. Our AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform identifies key narratives that target your company, the threat actors behind them, the networks they engage with, the bot behavior that amplifies them, and the cohorts and communities that connect them. This information enables organizations to proactively understand narrative threats as they scale and become harmful for better strategic decision-making. A diverse team of AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals founded Blackbird.AI to defend information integrity and fight a new class of narrative threats. To learn more, visit Blackbird.AI.
For more information, please contact:
World Wide Technology
Manager, Corporate Communications
Sr Director, Comms and Content
dpatterson@blackbird.ai