This EdgeTheory report synthesizes geospatial, narrative attribution, and network analysis surrounding Chinese military activity around Taiwan in late December 2025 and early January 2026, with a focus on the large-scale "Justice Mission 2025" exercises.

Drawing from multi-platform collection streams—including websites, social media actors, RSS feeds, and X posts—the brief maps how competing narratives about PLA drills, deterrence signaling, sovereignty assertion, and regional escalation propagate across the global information environment.

The report employs EdgeTheory's network-detection, emotion-classification, and narrative-amplification tools to trace how state-affiliated amplifiers, Taiwan-focused security monitors, U.S.-based analysts, Russian-aligned commentators, and other actors interact and reinforce messaging. In doing so, it provides a layered view of how information power, emotional framing, and geopolitical competition intersect to shape public understanding of the exercises and the risks of broader Asia-Pacific friction.

This EdgeTheory Narrative Intelligence report examines how vaccine-related narratives are constructed, amplified, and escalated across ideologically distinct U.S. media ecosystems—revealing how identical health signals produce sharply different interpretations, pressures, and behavioral responses.

Drawing on parallel narrative briefs covering the same time window, the analysis traces how measles outbreaks, CDC guideline changes, flu severity, legal challenges, and global health developments are framed differently depending on source ecosystem and audience identity. Rather than evaluating medical accuracy or public health policy, the report focuses on how meaning is assigned, where emotional pressure accumulates, and why narrative momentum often precedes measurable shifts in trust, behavior, and institutional response.

By mapping narrative themes, emotional framing, escalation patterns, and source alignment, the report shows why vaccine narratives are not fixed problems to correct—but dynamic environments organizations must understand and navigate in high-scrutiny markets where perception moves faster than data.

This EdgeTheory report synthesizes geospatial, narrative attribution, and network analysis surrounding the 2025 Thailand-Cambodia border conflict, specifically focusing on pro-Chinese narratives that position Beijing as a stabilizing mediator amid escalating clashes. Drawing from multi-platform collection streams, including websites, social media actors, RSS feeds, and X posts, this brief maps how competing narratives about mutual blame, failed ceasefires, and geopolitical proxy elements propagate across the global information environment. The report uses EdgeTheory’s network-detection and narrative-amplification tools to trace how nationalist and diplomatic actors organize, interact, and reinforce messaging—particularly alarmist pro-Thai claims of Cambodian aggression versus skeptical pro-Cambodian depictions of Thai opportunism—providing a layered view of how information power shapes perceptions of regional instability and the risk of wider US-China rivalry.

This EdgeTheory Narrative Intelligence report examines the 2026 Iranian protest cycle through the lens of information power, narrative competition, and foreign influence—revealing how perceptions of instability, legitimacy, and escalation are actively shaped in the global information environment.

Drawing on geospatial analysis, narrative attribution, and network detection across websites, social media, RSS feeds, and X, the report maps how narratives around economic collapse, state violence, foreign interference, and regime change propagate and reinforce one another. The analysis traces how state media, diaspora influencers, foreign-aligned information actors, and automated networks interact—using emotional framing and coordinated amplification to shape public understanding and policy risk.

Rather than treating protests as isolated events, the report shows how narrative dominance has become a decisive factor in crisis escalation, influencing legitimacy and international response long before ground truth can be independently verified.

This EdgeTheory Narrative Analysis examines how power is consolidated in Iraq after elections—through post-election negotiations and coordinated narrative control—viewed through the lens of Iranian influence.

The report analyzes how Iran-aligned political actors moved quickly following the recent elections to shape legitimacy—treating the vote as a procedural step, not the decisive moment. As results settled, coordinated post-election narratives shifted attention away from electoral outcomes and toward coalition formation, procedural milestones, and claims of inevitability.

Rather than contesting results directly, these narratives worked to define how government formation would be understood and accepted.

The analysis details how post-election narratives were:

• Coordinated across party-affiliated media, political messaging, and aligned network
• Reinforced during key negotiation and parliamentary moments
• Structured to marginalize election winners and normalize coalition-driven outcomes

By shaping narratives around inevitability, stability, and consensus, post-election negotiations become the real arena of power.