July 14, 2021 | NBC News
Ciarán O’Connor Finds a Loophole for Anti-Vaccine Misinformation on TikTok
ISD's Ciarán O'Connor spoke to NewsNation Now, NBC News and Reuters on his findings.
ISD in the Media
July 1, 2021 | BBC's Newsnight
Chloe Colliver on disinformation narratives and risks in the antivaxx movement
ISD’s Chloe Colliver speaks with Newsnight about the risks of radicalisation, and radicalisation toward violence, after prolonged exposure to extremists and disinformation narratives like those being seen in the antivaxx movement.
June 18, 2021 | BBC News Africa
Aoife Gallagher speaks on the misinformation storm surrounding the death of George Nkencho in Ireland
ISD's Aoife Gallagher is featured in a story by BBC News Africa following the death of George Nkencho and the misinformation storm that ensued.
July 12, 2021 | Alsat-M
Emir Hasanovic on ISD’s Strong Cities Network in the Balkans
ISD’s Emir Hasanovic is an in-studio guest at North Macedonia's most watched national station for a 30-minute interview on ISD's Strong Cities work in the Balkans.
January 18, 2021 | CNN
Chloe Colliver on CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight
ISD's Chloe Colliver speaks on CNN's Don Lemon Tonight about the Capitol Hill riots and the role social media played in the event
October 27, 2020 | Politico
Despite cries of censorship, conservatives dominate social media
ISD's research work featured heavily in this article in Politico on how a small number of conservative users routinely outpace their liberal rivals and traditional news outlets in driving the online conversation.
September 8, 2020 | BBC Click
Click reveals ISD discovery of huge pro-ISIS online cache
How ISD deputy director Moustafa Ayad discovered one of the largest collections of material belonging to the so-called Islamic State group ever found on the internet.
August 21, 2020 | First Draft
Coronavirus: How pro-mask posts boost the anti-mask movement
Chloe Colliver is quoted in this article on First Draft by Carlotta Dotto and Lydia Morrish on anti-masker conspiracy theories being amplified by Social Media.
August 10, 2020 | CNN
A propaganda battle is playing out in the replies to Trump’s tweets
CNN article based on our report on our case study of a pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Twitter network.
July 23, 2020 | BBC
QAnon, coronavirus and the conspiracy cult
Aoife Gallagher makes her BBC debut on video report about QAnon, coronavirus and the conspiracy cult.
July 12, 2020 | The Times
Extremists use BBC theme to trick Facebook into showing vile clips
Moustafa Ayad, ISD Deputy Director for Technology, Communications, and Education, is extensively quoted in this article in The Times.
July 7, 2020 | CTED Trends Alert
UN CTED report examines how extreme right-wing groups have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic
In this Update to the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) Trends Alert from April 2020, CTED examines how extreme right-wing groups have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 6, 2020 | BBC
TikTok’s Boogaloo extremism problem
Chloe Oliver, Head of Digital Policy and Strategy at ISD, is quoted in this BBC report on TikTok's problems with extremism.
July 2, 2020 | BBC
Facebook targets ‘false news’ amid growing pressure from advertisers
Chloe Colliver, head of the Digital Research Unit at ISD provides insights to this BBC story on 'False News' propagated on Facebook.
June 30, 2020 | CNN
White supremacists openly organize racist violence on Telegram, report finds
Jakob Guhl talks to CNN about Telegram and its white supremacist problem.
June 30, 2020 | Coda
How Covid-19 spread QAnon in Germany
Jakob Guhl, Coordinator in Policy & Research, contributed to this story on Coda.
June 22, 2020 | ZDF Germany
Undercover im Nazi-Chat
Jakob Guhl, Coordinator in Policy & Research was interviewed for this ZDF exposé of right wing activity on the Telegram chat platform.