EdgeTheory’s Global Cognitive Social Media Briefs provide a real-time window into how geopolitical narratives evolve, amplify, and influence global perception. In this brief, EdgeTheory’s AI-driven social media and narrative analytics unearthed coordinated messaging around China’s control of rare earth elements (REE)—critical materials underpinning both modern technology and defense systems. By combining geospatial narrative tracking with sentiment analysis, EdgeTheory revealed not only where conversations originate, but how they strategically move across the digital landscape, shaping interpretations of economic policy, sovereignty, and technological power.
