How to Track Narratives Across Global TV
Part 3 of our narrative intelligence series introduces a new four-step technique for identifying and extracting narratives from TV shows
Hi and welcome back!
This is Part 3 of our narrative intelligence series. In this issue, we introduce another new technique for extracting narratives from television programs, demonstrated through a real case study.
Industry news and the latest tradecraft tips are further in the newsletter.
Parts 1 and 2 of the series are linked below
Before we get into it, here is last week's tradecraft and industry news roundup:
OSINT Tradecraft Tips & Industry News
Everything you need to know from the past seven days.
Earth Genome launches Earth Index, a new AI-powered satellite imagery mapping tool, now open to anyone. Users have already exposed narcotrafficking airstrips in the Peruvian Amazon, mapped illegal palm oil expansion in Brazil, uncovered hazardous quarries in the Balkans, and tracked wetland loss from rose farming in Uganda | access the tool | for more info
Researcher tmctmt finds that Mullvad VPN assigns exit IPs using a seed-based RNG algorithm tied to users’ WireGuard keys, limiting exit IP combinations to 284 and enabling cross-server identity correlation with over 99% accuracy | read here
Meta gave up on end-to-end encryption on Instagram | read here
In this Twitter thread, the author details a six-hour process using Claude to remove 47 data broker listings, delete 12 inactive accounts, and suppress three search results | learn here
LinkedIn user Christoph S. warns that using inappropriate data sources in pre-employment checks frequently causes legal violations and negative consequences for both companies and applicants | originally posted in German, read here
Google researchers identified the first known case of a threat actor using AI to help discover and weaponize a zero-day exploit against a popular open-source web admin tool | read here
LLMs enable compliance teams to filter false positives, speed up KYC, and enrich entity matching by analyzing both structured and unstructured data | explore here
We came across this website developed by Rise Up Labs, which uses storytelling techniques to show users exactly what data their browser exposes the moment they visit a page. No login, no form, no permission required. | test here
Television programs are a primary vehicle for narrative introduction. In particular, state-run broadcasters use them to seed narratives with mass audiences before those narratives migrate to online platforms, where organic discourse amplifies and entrenches them. Tracking television at the source gives analysts an earlier signal than social media monitoring alone.
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we introduced narrative intelligence as a discipline and walked through two techniques.
Part 3 introduces a new technique we developed for television content.
How to Track Narratives Across Global TV
