Influence campaigns don’t begin the day influence is needed. They can start years earlier - building and mobilizing communities before eventually weaponizing them. 

As border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia erupted today, Brinker’s narrative intelligence platform scoured the online space looking to answer a simple question: Who started it? We were't looking for a definitive answer, but rather to see who is shaping the narratives, and in what means. Here are our initial findings:

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