Information Environment Analysis
Information Environment Analysis — Responding to Cognitive Warfare and Influence Operations
We observe and analyze narratives and how they spread on social media, supporting responses to disinformation and influence operations and early detection of corporate reputation risk. Analysis is performed on public posts; the units of analysis are keywords, hashtags, account clusters and narratives.
Services
What we deliver
01 / Narrative Analysis
Narrative Analysis
For a given topic, we chart which claims appeared when and in what wording they spread. We visualize the distribution of supportive, critical and neutral posts, the links between themes, and hashtag relationships.
02 / Diffusion Network Analysis
Diffusion Network Analysis
From replies, quotes and shared links we map the structure of spread: originating posts, relaying account clusters and reach. Reach figures are reported by type — reactions, comments, shares.
03 / Coordination Indicators
Indicators of Coordinated Amplification
We detect and individually verify indicators of coordination: duplicated text, clustered posting times, account clusters created in the same period, ID-style personas. Co-occurrence or simultaneous posting alone is not treated as evidence of a common operator.
04 / Monitoring & Reporting
Continuous Monitoring and Reporting
Observation windows are anchored to key dates such as elections and anniversaries, with an initial report, follow-ups and scheduled updates. Observed facts are kept separate from assessments.
Platform
Omni Oculus — Information Environment Analysis Platform
Omni Oculus is an information-environment analysis platform that observes and analyzes narratives and how they spread on social media. It visualizes posting volume over time for keywords, hashtags and account clusters, narrative formation, reply/quote diffusion networks, and indicators of coordinated amplification, supporting responses to disinformation and influence operations and early detection of corporate reputation risk.
The platform underpins our own investigations and reporting, and can be extended with plug-ins for specific use cases.
- Collection — continuous collection of public posts by keyword, hashtag and account cluster
- Visualization — posting volume over time, narrative formation, hashtag relationships
- Network — diffusion structure from replies, quotes and shared links
- Indicators — duplicated posts, clustered posting times, account clusters created in the same period
- Reputation — early detection of sudden shifts in sentiment about a company or brand
- Extensibility — plug-ins for additional sources and analysis methods
Cases & Publications
Published Work
- Research Series · 2026-08OVERRIDE 2022 — a three-part re-examination, from public sources, of Japanese-language discourse, cyberattacks and information spread around the 2022 invasion of Ukraine (Japanese)
- Web Series · 2026-09Okinawa Gubernatorial Election 2026 — reference analysis of the discourse space — supportive and critical narratives by candidate, reply/quote structure and hashtag relationships, using machine classification with manual verification (Day 11 and others; Japanese)
- CategoryCognitive Warfare & Disinformation — all related articles