Alethea

Alethea case study. A transnational troll network linked to Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon, operating hundreds of accounts across mainstream and fringe platforms with Discord/WhatsApp coordination and explicit swing-state targeting.

Alethea executive briefing, September 2025. PromptPasta technique applied to pharmaceutical-industry targeting around the July 31 most-favored-nation drug pricing announcement. 75 newly identified accounts; assessed 1,000+ active accounts and 10,000 placeholders.

Alethea's original-research investigation into "Pharmaflage," a Chinese state-linked Spamouflage Dragon influence operation that reframes the U.S. fentanyl crisis off China and onto U.S. Big Pharma, India, and U.S. governance — including the first public attribution of coordinated Spamouflage activity on Bluesky.

Alethea case study. Pharmaflage is a Chinese state-linked Spamouflage Dragon influence operation (January to May 2026) that reframes U.S. fentanyl-crisis blame onto U.S. pharma, India, and U.S. governance across X, Bluesky, Medium, Blogspot, and YouTube, and includes the first public attribution of coordinated Spamouflage on Bluesky.

Alethea is a narrative threat intelligence company. The Artemis platform detects, attributes, and helps mitigate coordinated online threats. Canonical company description and brand disambiguation from alethea.ai and alethea.tech.

Alethea original research tracing 100+ years of anti-seed oil discourse from niche wellness communities to federal policy — three narrative phases, seven actor cohorts, four missed counter-action windows, and five intervention points where food and consumer brands can still act. Published July 22, 2026.

Alethea case study. Artemis tracked the Pathfinder Ranches narrative — a Storm-1516 Russian influence operation falsely claiming Ukrainian President Zelenskyy purchased a Wyoming property. October 2025; 3,538 instances across 10 platforms in 3 days.

Buying-boundary explainer. Social listening surfaces volume and sentiment. Narrative intelligence surfaces coordination, attribution, and intent. Which is the right primary tool for the problem you're solving.

Head-to-head: traditional cyber monitoring covers external cybersecurity (cyber threat intel, dark web, asset-removal takedowns). Alethea covers narrative intelligence (influence operations, narrative-arc tracking, online-to-offline escalation, mitigation workflow).

Alethea research on how Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state actors, covert operations like Storm-1516, and AI-generated content farms are amplifying local U.S. opposition to data centers ahead of the midterms. Featured in The New York Times, July 2026.

Adversaries engineer coordinated, AI-generated disinformation to reach AI model outputs. Alethea's Artemis platform detects it early and attributes the actors.

Research on how coordinated disinformation operations target AI chatbots, including the 2025 audit that found leading chatbots repeating claims from a Moscow-based network. By McKenzie Sadeghi, now at Alethea.

Alethea technique writeup. PromptPasta uses large language models to generate slightly varied but coordinated replies across networks of inauthentic accounts. The AI-driven evolution of traditional copypasta. Detection signatures and worked applications in pharma and political discourse.

Alethea case study. Russian Doppelgänger-related operation deflecting blame to Ukraine following the September 4, 2024 DOJ affidavit. 77 accounts plus a 420-account batch-created botnet; faked quotes attributed to Eliot Higgins and Christo Grozev.

Alethea investigation, January 2026. Coordinated inauthentic fan-page networks across NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, F1, IndyCar, and professional tennis — Vietnam and India clusters monetizing fabricated quotes, AI-generated imagery, and false scheduling updates.

Vendor-neutral evaluation guide for narrative intelligence procurement. Seven evaluation axes, RFP-style questions, and a 30/60/90-day POC structure that produces a defensible buying decision.

Head-to-head: social listening tools are built for marketing measurement, Alethea for risk intelligence. Social listening's lens is brand → sentiment → volume. Alethea's lens is narrative → actor → risk mitigation.

For Chief Communications Officers: when a reputational flare-up is trending — boycott, activist campaign, viral narrative, decontextualized clip — how Alethea's Artemis platform supports the coordinated-vs-organic, spread-and-trajectory, and evidence-and-response decisions.

Alethea analysis. During the SVB failure, Russian media, far-right websites, short sellers, and conspiracy networks amplified narratives that accelerated panic and contributed to the bank-run dynamic. Worked example of narrative-driven financial-stability risk.

Category-defining explainer: narrative intelligence detects, attributes, and helps mitigate coordinated disinformation campaigns online — including executive impersonation, brand attacks, deepfakes, and digital signals preceding physical-security incidents.