For 20 years, ISD has delivered field-leading threat detection, analysis and real-world strategies to combat terrorism, extremism and authoritarianism - in all their ideological forms.
Explainers provide overviews of issues, trends, narratives, platforms and actors across our issue areas of extremism, hate, information operations, polarisation and tech accountability.
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The ‘Great Reset’
Misconceptions about the 'Great Reset', a World Economic Forum initiative responding to COVID-19, have fuelled conspiracy theories in recent years.
ISD Germany, ISD UK, ISD-US
Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Terrorism and Extremism
Discord & Extremism
While Discord has primarily been a space marketed to gamers, over the years there have been multiple instances of extremist activity on the platform.
Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Terrorism and Extremism
The ‘Great Reset’
Misconceptions about the 'Great Reset', a World Economic Forum initiative responding to COVID-19, have fuelled conspiracy theories in recent years.
Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Terrorism and Extremism
Memes & the Extreme Right-Wing
This Explainer provides an overview of the use of internet memes by the extreme right wing.
Climate lockdown’ is a conspiracy theory alleging global elites exploit climate change to justify curtailing freedoms and civil liberties.
Climate, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference
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The ‘New World Order’
The 'New World Order' conspiracy theory claims a secretive elite aims to establish a global totalitarian government.
ISD Germany, ISD UK, ISD-US
Antisemitism, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation
Commercial Disinformation
Disinformation-for-profit is an industry and business model that pushes conspiracies and polarising narratives to generate revenue.
ISD UK
Commercial Disinformation and Scams, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation
The Reichsbürger Movement
The Reichsbürger movement is a German conspiracy movement similar to Sovereign Citizens.
ISD Germany
Anti-Migrant, Far-Right Extremism, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse
Patriot Front
Patriot Front is a white supremacist organisation that aims to restore and reshape American society through perceived post-revolutionary virtues.
ISD-US
Anti-Migrant, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence
‘White Genocide’
The 'white genocide' conspiracy theory holds that there is a deliberate plot to erase whiteness.
ISD Germany, ISD UK, ISD-US
Anti-Migrant, Anti-Muslim, Antisemitism, Far-Right Extremism, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence
Die Reichsbürger Bewegung
Die Reichsbürger sind eine extremistische deutsche Bewegung, deren Ideologiedurch die gemeinsame Überzeugung geeint ist, dass die Bundesrepublik Deuts
ISD Germany
Anti-Migrant, Far-Right Extremism, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse
Boogaloo Movement
The Boogaloo movement is an anti-government, anti-law enforcement extremist militia movement.
ISD UK, ISD-US
Anti-Migrant, Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Officials and Law Enforcement, Threats to Public Figures
Incels
Incels ("involuntary celibates") are an online subculture whose sense of identity stems from a perceived inability to form intimate relationships.
