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Food & Beverage
Food & beverage brands today sit at the intersection of rising consumer scrutiny, economic uncertainty, and evolving regulatory pressures. From viral misinformation about ingredients to polarizing public discourse around pricing and food policy, the stakes are high. Leaders must manage operational complexity while protecting reputation, maintaining customer trust, and responding to rapid shifts in online narratives that influence consumer behavior and policymaker attention alike.
Alethea empowers food and beverage leaders with early intelligence to navigate today’s dynamic risks—so you can protect your brand, operations, and market position.

Early Insight into Rapidly Evolving Risk
From ingredient safety concerns to debates over pricing and inflation, consumer sentiment shifts rapidly and can be influenced by viral misinformation. Alethea identifies emerging risks early, helping you assess key issues, execute data-driven response strategies, and protect consumer trust.
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Clarity in the Chaos
Food is universal, personal, and politicized—making online discourse vast and especially volatile. Alethea sifts through millions of signals to deliver clear, contextualized insights tailored to your brand and market trends, cutting through the noise so your teams can focus on what matters most.
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Adaptable Support for a Shifting Landscape
From inflationary pressure and economic anxiety to regulatory scrutiny and social movements, digital narratives are shaping risk in new ways for food & beverage brands. Alethea’s blend of machine learning and expert analysis constantly adapts to these shifts, giving leaders the clarity and foresight to mitigate risk and move with confidence.
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Knowledge Is Power
Alethea delivers more than surface-level alerts. We help you decode how narratives evolve, understand who’s driving and amplifying them, and assess their real-world impact—so you can make informed decisions with clarity and speed.
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Narrative Risk Management for Financial Leaders
From market manipulation to executive threats, Alethea equips financial leaders with intelligence to protect reputation, maintain stability, and drive confident decisions in a volatile information environment.
Critical Threats
Alethea Helps You
Critical Threats and How Alethea Helps

Brand Boycotts
Organized campaigns urging consumers to stop supporting a company, often in response to perceived social, political, or ethical missteps, posing risks of financial loss, reputational damage, and stakeholder backlash
Alethea Helps You
- Pre-bunk misinformation
- Detect inauthentic activity and coordination
- Prepare data-driven responses to address public concerns
- Deploy counter-messaging

Politicization
The reframing of a neutral issue, event, or brand action through a partisan lens to provoke division or advance an agenda, presenting brand misalignment, public division, and long tail risk
Alethea Helps You
- Protect neutrality with clear messaging
- Monitor emerging political narratives
- Prepare for backlash
- Utilize data for productive engagement with lawmakers

Calls for In-Person Disruption & Protests
Coordinated efforts to mobilize physical presence or unrest at a specific site, often timed to disrupt high-profile events or company activities, presenting both operational and safety risks
Alethea Helps You
- Monitor threat group activity and narrative evolution across platforms
- Coordinate proactive threat mitigation with security, legal, and law enforcement teams

Weaponization of Real Events
The strategic, manipulative use of real events to spread misleading narratives, provoke outrage, or fuel coordinated influence campaigns that threaten brand reputation based on partial or misrepresented facts
Alethea Helps You
- Spot distortions early and analyze impact
- Prepare proactive messaging
- Utilize data to engage press and stakeholders

Coordination & Amplification
The deliberate spread of narratives through networks of aligned or automated accounts to boost visibility, momentum, or perceived consensus—escalating the risk of viral threats and media amplification of harmful narratives.
Alethea Helps You
- Distinguish organic and inauthentic patterns
- Report bot activity and violations of platform policies for takedowns
- Manage media response
Why Alethea
Discover how Alethea works—from the intelligence behind our platform to the experts who guide our approach. Learn about our methodology, the outcomes we drive, and the recognition we’ve earned along the way.
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From Policy to Purchase Paralysis: The Retail Impact of Tariffs
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The Reputational Crossfire: What CCOs Need to Know About Emerging Tariff Narratives
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Press Release

June 5, 2025
Alethea Launches Risk Radar, a Narrative Risk Management System to Increase Visibility into Threats Stemming from Disinformation and Context Distortion
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