Alethea provides technology to monitor, detect, assess, and mitigate disinformation attacks against organizations. The platform aims to help companies understand risks to their reputation, cyber, and physical security.

Alethea

Alethea is a technology company helping the Fortune 500, private companies, democracies, and nonprofits protect themselves from harms stemming from disinformation, misinformation, and social media manipulation. 

With our  multi-channel machine learning platform, Artemis, Alethea detects disinformation narratives across the internet, enabling customers to proactively defend against this pervasive threat. With Artemis-powered early detection, Alethea customers can protect their reputations, key assets, physical safety, and market value. The company was founded in 2019 and is woman-owned.

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The Wall Street Journal and Dustin Volz featured Alethea's latest investigation exposing what we assess to be the Chinese influence operation Spamouflage Dragon (also known as DRAGONBRIDGE) operating on Gab, suggesting the CCP may be testing the waters for influencing specific parts of the US electorate in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election.

"Expansion onto more niche platforms that appeal to individuals based on principles or ideology offers potential for more directed messaging and targeting,” said C Shawn Eib, head of investigations at Alethea. He added that the lack of robust trust and safety teams at smaller platforms could attract activity from state-backed information operations like Spamouflage."

The WSJ's full article: https://lnkd.in/dsrFQ3Bd

Alethea's full investigative report: https://lnkd.in/eQbeZx-z

CEO Lisa Kaplan was selected to the Washingtonian's 2023 Tech Titans list for the most important and innovative leaders across the technology space. Kaplan and the Alethea team continue to be recognized for our cutting edge work on the issues of disinformation, misinformation, and social media manipulation.

Check out the full list of honorees: https://lnkd.in/g-PN-eEC

NEW: Alethea identified a network of inauthentic accounts operating mostly on the U.S. alt-platform Gab that we assess with high confidence is part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Spamouflage Dragon influence operation. This assessment is based on shared behavioral and messaging characteristics as well as content overlap with recent Spamouflage activity reported by Meta. Spamouflage Dragon has been detected across an array of major social media platforms, but this appears to be the first time that the campaign has been identified on Gab.

Background: Spamouflage Dragon (also referred to as DRAGONBRIDGE) is a persistent Chinese influence campaign first publicly exposed in 2019 and active across dozens of social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly known as Twitter). In October 2022, Alethea released its own investigation into what was likely a branch of the Spamouflage campaign that was creating inauthentic Twitter accounts with American personas and spreading polarizing content in the run-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

Why it Matters: The CCP uses Spamouflage Dragon accounts to push Chinese government talking points and target China’s perceived enemies; the appearance of Spamouflage accounts on U.S. alt-platforms suggests the CCP may be testing the waters for influencing more specific segments of the U.S. electorate, especially in advance of the 2024 presidential election.

Check out the full report: https://lnkd.in/eQbeZx-z

You can't fight what you don't know. Alethea's latest blog highlights the importance of early threat detection and assessment when it comes to reducing the potential costs and damages stemming from disinformation and misinformation risks. By identifying false or misleading information in its early stages, you can effectively limit its spread, preserve consumer trust, and help inform your strategic crisis management planning and execution.

Check out the full piece: https://lnkd.in/edMMGeTb

We're very excited to be included in this list of promising cyber startups of 2023. Disinformation is one of the biggest issues democracies and economies will face over the next several decades. Bad actors have evolved drastically over the last few years, becoming more sophisticated and strategic in their tactics. This means the severity of consequences have also increased. Organizations can protect themselves but it means being proactive not reactive.

Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gMKgMKwX

Alethea CEO Lisa Kaplan was named to PRWeek's 2023 40 Under 40 list of honorees for being a leader and rising star in the fields of strategic communications and crisis management.

“It is an honor to be selected by PRWeek to join such a distinguished group of experts. The communications industry is at an inflection point, where the best professionals understand that in addition to telling a great story, you have to protect your organization against false narratives, including those stemming from disinformation, state actors, competitors, and dark PR firms," said Kaplan.

Check out Alethea's press release to learn more about the award and see the full list of honorees: https://lnkd.in/eNwviN8F

Last week, CEO Lisa Kaplan sat down with Malwarebytes to talk about how businesses and their security teams - CISOs, CIOs, and others - can protect themselves from disinformation threats impacting customer trust, brand and reputation, and overall organizational security. 

Spoiler: Proactive risk management is key.

Listen to the episode: https://lnkd.in/egGsb74Q

CEO Lisa Kaplan joined Malwarebytes on their Lock and Code podcast for a discussion on disinformation and business, the importance of creating risk management plans, and why the newest cyberthreat isn't going away anytime soon.

Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/e-9JPFAe

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