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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

September 8, 2022

Jared Holt: Trump is openly promoting QAnon theories and supporters on Truth Social

In The Daily Beast, ISD's Jared Holt argues it's a mistake to give Donald Trump plausible deniability for promoting QAnon on Truth Social.

September 7, 2022

Kremlin-linked accounts use beauty influencer imagery to target men with disinformation

Newsweek has featured findings from Moustafa Ayad's research published in Propaganda Primping: The ‘Kremlinistas’ of Twitter.

September 4, 2022

Internet and democracy: A ‘tenuous’ and ‘fraught’ relationship

Jared Holt features in CBS's Face the Nation, discussing the role of the Internet as an "accelerator and a multiplier" in spreading extremist content.

September 4, 2022

ABC News host asks White House adviser about ISD’s findings following Biden’s speech on the ‘MAGA’ threat

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz asked Keisha Lance Bottoms about ISD’s findings after Biden’s primetime speech on “MAGA” threats to democracy.

September 4, 2022

Trump’s influence limited to a “closed feedback loop”

ISD Senior Analyst Jared Holt speaks with French news agency AFP about Trump's limited reach in pushing conspiracies nowadays.

August 31, 2022

COVID conspiracists spark the latest culture war over drag queen readings in the UK

ISD's Tim Squirrell spoke to VICE about the anti-LGBTQ+ campaign that has followed a tour of drag queen readings to children in UK public libraries.

August 26, 2022

RT Arabic and unofficial outlets are winning the information war in the Middle East

ISD's Moustafa Ayad's talks to DW about RT Arabic's popularity in the Middle East and how its winning the information war in the region.

August 26, 2022

Homophobic slurs linked to monkeypox continue to spread on Twitter

Insider has used ISD research to report on the surge of homophobic rhetoric online since the WHO declared monkeypox a public health emergency.
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