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Chapter 95

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last update publish date: 2026-03-19 00:15:34

The intelligence room received the first alert about an information operation on Monday morning when the monitoring feed that Aria had established across human media channels flagged an unusual concentration of coordinated reporting across three separate outlets within a six-hour window.

I was at my station working through the weekly pattern analysis when Aria set a printed summary beside my keyboard and said, “Look at the sourcing on these.”

I read through the summary and then I pulled the ori
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