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September 17, 2026

25 years after 9/11, al-Qaeda remains perennially online: The group’s digital ecosystem in 2026

Twenty-five years after 9/11, al-Qaeda remains online, adapting its decentralized ecosystem across platforms, messaging services and AI.

ISD-US

Islamist Extremism, Tech Accountability and Safety, Threat Analysis and Prevention

September 15, 2026

‘United by chaos:’ Examining the Russian nexus to online networks of nihilistic violence

Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

September 8, 2026

Generation ‘Slop Jihad:’ The decentralized ‘media jihad’ gets sloppy

Islamist Extremism, Terrorism and Extremism

September 4, 2026

Investigation | An old dog with no new tricks: Matryoshka targets regional elections in Germany

Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Tech Accountability and Safety

July 29, 2026

Louder and louder on the Western front: Key takeaways from the Authoritarian Interference Tracker

Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

April 23, 2026

Iran’s diplomats launch a meme war

Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

April 22, 2026

The impact of the war with Iran on antisemitic discourse

Antisemitism, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Tech Accountability and Safety

April 15, 2026

How pro-Iran networks gained a billion views on war propaganda

Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

March 16, 2026

Dangerous narratives: The ecosystem of Germanic New Medicine

Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Public Health

February 27, 2026

Axis of amplification: Regime media, proxies and Western supporters respond to Iranian protests

Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

February 17, 2026

The online landscape of subcultures of nihilistic violence

Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Terrorism and Extremism

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March 1, 2022

German-language disinformation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Facebook

This Dispatch shares several trends that ISD analysts observed in German-language Facebook groups amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

ISD Germany

Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

February 24, 2022

Fake ‘Freedom Convoy’ Facebook groups are being run by foreign networks for profit

This Dispatch analyses fake Facebook groups being run for profit from foreign countries that claim to be part of the 'Freedom Convoy' protest movement

ISD UK

Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

February 22, 2022

German-language antisemitic comments on YouTube

This Dispatch looks at German-language YouTube videos which are attracting hate speech against Jewish people in their comment sections.

ISD Germany

Antisemitism, Tech Accountability and Safety

February 15, 2022

Nuanced text analysis at scale: Toxicity detection and digital Salafism

ISD outlines its approach to applying toxicity analysis to Salafi online content and the development of automated toxicity detection tools.

ISD UK

Islamist Extremism, Tech Accountability and Safety

January 19, 2022

Conspiracy clickbait: This one weird trick will undermine democracy

This series explores how networks linked to individuals in Vietnam use QAnon conspiracy theories and US political disinformation to generate revenue.

ISD UK

Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

December 9, 2021

The challenge of post-organisational violent extremism and terrorism

This Dispatch explains the concept of 'post-organisational' violent extremism and terrorism, and the challenges on how to respond to them.

ISD UK

Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Terrorism and Extremism

December 2, 2021

The growth of the left-wing ‘Gunstagram’

The left-wing 'Gunstagram’ is an emerging, US-based firearms community on Instagram. This dispatch looks at what has driven its growth.

ISD UK

Far-Left Extremism, Terrorism and Extremism

November 23, 2021

Pro-Russian disinformation outlet evades Facebook nan

Despite being banned from Facebook, the pro-Russian disinformation outlet News Front has resumed many of its operations.

ISD UK

Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

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