Narrative Intelligence in Practice: Two Techniques for Identifying and Monitoring Narratives
Most practitioners know narratives exist. Few have a repeatable method for finding them. These two techniques change that.
Welcome back.
In our last issue, we looked at narrative intelligence as a discipline. What it is and why it is so important. This issue moves from theory to method, where we cover two specific techniques for identifying and monitoring narratives in the wild.
As always, you will find the latest tools, tips, and job listings further in the newsletter.
Missed last week?
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.
The Social Media Data Toolkit (SMDT) standardizes, anonymizes, and enriches social media datasets using a common schema and analysis tools. | read here
Google is indexing web content more selectively, allowing website owners greater control and causing a wider gap between what exists online and what appears in search results. | read here
MAX messenger in Russia displays viewing and user statistics anomalies across major channels, including more views than subscribers and slower than expected view accumulation for a chronological feed. | view here
ImageWhisperer 2.0 launched with faster speed, improved detectors, custom investigation plans, fact-checking against 7,000+ verified claims, and multi-platform search from one interface. | read here
Tristan Lee built and published a facial recognition pipeline and website for identifying people in the Epstein files. | view here
Clément Molin lists several open-source tools with which you can follow the war in Ukraine. | read here
Anthropic launched Claude for Financial Services, a Financial Analysis Solution that unifies market and enterprise data from providers like FactSet, Snowflake, and S&P Global into one interface powered by Claude 4. | check out here
Two Techniques for Identifying and Monitoring Narratives
Part 2: How to Spot the Signs and Track Them
