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October 23, 2026

Social media platforms’ role in amplifying extremist communities

The New Yorker interviewed ISD Senior Director Katherine Keneally on social media's role in amplifying the threat posed by online extremism.

October 22, 2026

ISD’s Milo Comerford discusses new documentary on The Com at UK Parliament

October 22, 2026

AI integration and its risks heading into US midterms

October 15, 2026

ISD’s Julia Ebner discusses her new book on politicization of extreme masculinity

October 15, 2026

Nidal Hasan becomes fixture in extremist propaganda amid discussions of public execution

October 13, 2026

The state of Russian information operations following attacks on Russian data centers

October 9, 2026

Scam advertisements promoting concealed carry permits target vulnerable populations

October 6, 2026

Recent German state elections show Russian information operations’ renewed focus

September 28, 2026

Islamic State’s decentralized digital ecosystem

Recent Media mentions

November 11, 2022

Twitter’s potential demise puts archive of world’s digital history at stake

Ciarán O'Connor and Elise Thomas discuss Twitter's potential collapse and its implications for digital and human history in MIT Technology Review.

November 9, 2022

Election conspiracists set fraud foundation ahead of the US midterms

ISD provided research and commentary to POLITICO on local election fraud narratives that were spreading ahead of the US midterms.

November 9, 2022

ISD’s Jiore Craig: reconsider what you share online, “slow down”

ISD's Jiore Craig joined Bloomberg’s Emily Chang to discuss election deniers, combating misinformation, and the future of Twitter.

November 6, 2022

ISD research features in BBC investigation on election misinformation

BBC's Marianna Spring led an investigation across major social media platforms using 5 personas representing different US political views.

November 6, 2022

Climate delayism narratives resurface to distract from COP27 efforts

Jennie King commented to POLITICO about the far right's "turbocharged" focus on the energy crisis, which populists wrongly blame on green policies.

November 5, 2022

Non-profit researchers pick up social media platforms’ slack ahead of Election Day in the US

ISD's Jiore Craig told the NYT that YouTube's video-first nature and lack of resources allow misinformation to go undetected on the platform.

November 4, 2022

Twitter layoffs clear the way for election misinformation ahead of the US midterms

ISD's Katherine Keneally spoke to the Washington Post about how the recent cuts to Twitter's workforce may impact the US elections this week.

November 1, 2022

Sasha Havlicek on why conspiracists claim terror attacks are being faked

Sasha spoke to BBC Panorama about why people believe terror attacks are hoaxes and the promoters of these conspiracies.