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The Intelligence Brief is Rhetoric Audit’s cross-platform narrative intelligence feature. Where a standard analysis examines a single article, an Intelligence Brief aggregates signals from five platforms simultaneously — X, Reddit, YouTube, News, and the open Web — and synthesizes them into a single report that answers a harder question: not just how one article is framed, but how a narrative is spreading, who is amplifying it, and how much of that amplification is organic.
Intelligence Briefs are currently in beta. Each brief costs 2 credits, and PDF export is included at no additional cost. To generate your first brief, go to Dashboard → Intelligence Brief.

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What the brief covers

An Intelligence Brief gives you five categories of intelligence about a topic or narrative.

Authenticity Score

A score from 0 to 100 measuring how much of the engagement around a narrative appears organic versus coordinated. Lower scores indicate higher proportions of inauthentic amplification — bot networks, coordinated account clusters, or synchronized posting patterns.

Emotion Profile

The dominant emotional signals present across all collected content, broken into four dimensions: Fear, Outrage, Urgency, and Hope. Each is derived from aggregated Plutchik analysis across the full cross-platform corpus, not from a single source.

Contagion Risk

A four-level rating — LOW / MOD / HIGH / ELEVATED — measuring how likely the narrative is to spread rapidly across platforms. The rating factors in amplification velocity, emotional charge, and early cross-platform presence.

Coordinated Amplification Detection

The brief identifies whether clusters of accounts are amplifying the same narrative in temporal or semantic coordination. This goes beyond bot detection — coordinated inauthentic behavior can involve real accounts acting in concert.

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Narrative pattern analysis

Beyond the scored dimensions, the brief surfaces the dominant narrative patterns present across all five platforms. This identifies how different communities are framing the same event or topic — whether the mainstream news framing and the social media framing agree, diverge, or are in active opposition. When public sentiment and verifiable evidence disagree, the brief flags the dissonance explicitly.

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Platforms analyzed

The brief pulls from five independent data streams, processed in parallel:
PlatformSignal type
X (Twitter)Real-time amplification patterns, engagement velocity, account cluster behavior
RedditCommunity framing, upvote/comment dynamics, cross-subreddit spread
YouTubeVideo narrative framing, comment sentiment, view-count trajectory
NewsCross-outlet coverage volume, framing consistency, editorial positioning
Open WebBroader corroboration and syndication across non-news domains
The most actionable briefs come from topics that have been active across platforms for at least 6 hours. Very new narratives may return limited signal on some platforms, which is reflected in the brief’s confidence indicators.

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How to generate a brief

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Open Intelligence Brief

Navigate to Dashboard → Intelligence Brief in the Rhetoric Audit web app.
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Enter your topic or URL

Type a topic, entity name, or event description — or paste a URL to anchor the brief around a specific article or story. The system uses this as the seed for cross-platform signal collection.
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Review and confirm

You will see a preview of the platforms that will be queried and a confirmation that 2 credits will be deducted. Confirm to start the brief generation.
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Read your report

Brief generation takes approximately 60–120 seconds depending on platform response times. The completed report is saved to your dashboard history and available for PDF export immediately.

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Use cases

Journalists and researchers use Intelligence Briefs to map how a story moves from first publication through social amplification to mainstream coverage — and to identify where the framing shifts between platforms. The cross-platform narrative pattern analysis is particularly useful here.
Communications teams, policy analysts, and security researchers use the coordinated amplification detection and Authenticity Score to distinguish organic public reaction from manufactured consensus. An Authenticity Score below 50 on a high-reach narrative warrants direct investigation of the amplification network.
Editors and communications officers generate briefs on topics they are about to cover or publish on, to understand the emotional temperature and contagion risk of the information environment they are entering. A HIGH or ELEVATED Contagion Risk rating is a signal to build in extra verification time and consider how the publication’s framing might interact with the existing narrative.
Because each brief is saved to your dashboard history, you can generate briefs on the same topic at different points in time to track how the Authenticity Score, Emotion Profile, and Contagion Risk evolve as a story develops.

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Credits and export

Each Intelligence Brief costs 2 credits regardless of the number of platforms that return signals. If platform data is unavailable for one or more sources, the brief is generated from the remaining signals and the missing platforms are noted in the report — you are not charged again. PDF export is included with every brief. The exported PDF contains the full report including Authenticity Score, Emotion Profile, Contagion Risk rating, coordinated amplification findings, and narrative pattern analysis, formatted for sharing with colleagues or including in research documentation.
Intelligence Briefs do not store or republish user-submitted content. The topic or URL you submit is used only to seed the platform queries for that brief and is not retained after the report is generated.