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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Groypers
The Groyper movement is a loose network of white nationalist activists and internet trolls who gravitate around several key online influencers.
ISD-US
Anti-Migrant, Far-Right Extremism, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse
Sovereign Citizens
The Sovereign Citizens movement is a heterogenous anti-government ideology that originated in the US.
ISD-US
Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Terrorism and Extremism
Accelerationism
Accelerationism is an ideology focussed on the need for societal collapse to preserve the white race.
ISD Germany, ISD UK, ISD-US
Anti-Migrant, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence
The ‘Manosphere’
The “manosphere” is an umbrella term that refers to a number of interconnected misogynistic communities.
ISD Germany, ISD UK, ISD-US
Misogyny
The Order of Nine Angles
A decentralised, Satanist, neo-Nazi organization that has spread and become increasingly influential among accelerationist neo-Nazi groups.
ISD-US
Anti-Migrant, Antisemitism, Far-Right Extremism, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse
