US platform readiness
AFD social impact
CEO Sasha Havlicek at VivaTech Conference in Paris
playbook
Israel-Hamas Conflict
Explainers
The online mis- and disinformation ecosystem in Ireland

Evaluating platform readiness for US elections

ISD assessed platform policies across six areas, uncovering a concerning lack of transparency regarding safety measures and resource allocation amid rising hate speech and misinformation.

From rumours to riots

How online misinformation fuelled violence in the aftermath of the Southport attack

After a mass stabbing in the UK, ISD highlights how misinformation about the attacker spread on social media, leading to offline violence.

Afd social

Assessing the AfD's social media strategy in the lead-up to eastern German state elections

ISD analysis of top AfD Facebook posts before the elections, highlighting key themes & risks to democratic stability.

CEO Sasha Havlicek at VivaTech conference in Paris

CEO Sasha Havlicek at VivaTech Conference in Paris

Sasha joined experts to share insights into how to solve the political & social polarisation we face today, stemming from social media’s “attention economy business model”.

playbook

Addressing online extremism in New Zealand: A playbook for positive interventions

This playbook outlines strategies for addressing online extremism, offering frameworks for best practices.

Israel-Hamas Conflict

Israel-Hamas conflict

ISD's coverage and analysis regarding online threats in relation to the Israel-Hamas conflict
& the situation in Gaza.

Explainers

Explainers

ISD's library of issues, trends, narratives, platforms & actors relating to extremism, hate & disinformation topics.

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ISD’s blog for the latest in data-driven research on hate, disinformation and extremism.
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ISD looks at an attempted migration of accelerationist neo-Nazis from Telegram to a new platform following the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.
WIRED reports on our findings about the Irish Channel, which uses generative AI to produce false articles linked to US election denial narratives.
ISD uncovered the Lincoln Media Network, which aims to influence voters before the 2024 US election using opaque news outlets and Facebook to spread political content.
In her op-ed for The Guardian, Julia Ebner discusses Austria's far-right Freedom Party's recent electoral victory, highlighting its peak popularity and radicalism since its founding.
Our latest coverage of the Israel-Hamas Conflict.
This Dispatch explores how falsified documents in ‘hack & leak campaigns’ influence public opinion, analysing a likely false IRGC document about pro-Palestine protests.
This briefing details the engagement of pro-CCP actors, Chinese state media, and Canadian alternative media with the Israel-Hamas conflict.
This briefing outlines how French-speaking right-wing extremists in Quebec have engaged with ongoing events related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Featured research from across our work

The report examines the Irish Channel website and social media, a key source of misinformation in Ireland.
This report examines TikTok's content moderation failures regarding white supremacist and other extremist content on the platform.
This report investigates how TikTok has mishandled the moderation of anti-migrant and anti-refugee content on its platform.

Overviews of issues, trends, narratives, platforms and actors.
‘Targeted individuals’ (TIs) are self-identified individuals who believe they are victims of constant group stalking, monitoring, and harassment (i.e. “gangstalking”) by shadowy adversaries, most commonly government agents. TIs have committed at least four mass shootings or acts of violence in the United States since 2013.
This Explainer covers the EU's Digital Services Act, focusing on its impact on ISD's efforts against election risks, terrorism, extremism & tech accountability.
'Antifa' groups operate in a mostly decentralized way but share a belief that they're resisting fascist ideology, primarily through protests and counterdemonstrations against far-right extremism, utilizing tactics such as doxxing, and at times criminal activity.