RESOURCES FOR MEDIA

ISD equips media professionals with the analysis, tools and expertise needed to understand, communicate and address the risks posed by extremist propaganda and information manipulation.

We train journalists on the use of our dashboards, toolkits and curricula to help them recognize and counter extremist narratives, hate speech and disinformation. We brief newsrooms - more than 100 local ones in the US since 2024 – to help media outlets report accurately on complex issues related to extremism and social cohesion.

Our experts are routinely interviewed by international outlets to provide clarity on extremism, terrorism, hate speech and information warfare, including in the wake of major global crises.

Please get in touch if you have any media-related queries: [email protected].

Featured Media Mentions

October 9, 2026

Scam advertisements promoting concealed carry permits target vulnerable populations

Straight Arrow covered ISD's recent Dispatch on scam advertisements and interviewed Analyst Will DiGravio.

October 6, 2026

Recent German state elections show Russian information operations’ renewed focus

September 28, 2026

Islamic State’s decentralized digital ecosystem

September 23, 2026

Voters increasingly rely on AI for election questions, raising concerns about information accuracy

September 4, 2026

NBC, NYT, POLITICO and more feature ISD’s report on AI chatbot responses to election questions

September 2, 2026

Canada must modernize school violence prevention amid diverse threat environment

August 19, 2026

Crisis over migration in Europe reveals dangers of manipulated online information

July 14, 2026

ISD finds mainstream social media platforms refer users to ‘nudify’ apps

July 8, 2026

The serious threat posed by Patriot Front

Recent Media mentions

December 18, 2020

QAnon narratives spread on Facebook despite ban

Research from ISD and NewsGuard about the spread of QAnon narratives on Facebook is exclusively covered by the New York Times.

December 17, 2020

Op-ed: Jakob Guhl on online extremism in German-speaking countries for GNET

Jakob Guhl writes about online extremism in German-speaking countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

December 15, 2020

Australia’s far-left: A security threat?

Mario Peucker and ISD's Jacob Davey write for ABC (Australia) on whether Australia’s radical left pose a national security threat.

November 25, 2020

Milo Comerford on the behaviour of extremist groups during the pandemic

Milo's Comerford's article for the Institute of Economics and Peace on the behaviour of extremist groups during the pandemic.

November 2, 2020

Chloe Colliver on coordinated inauthentic behaviour on Faceboook

Chloe Colliver is quoted in The Forward on Iranian-linked coordinated inauthentic behaviour targeting users on Faceboook.

October 27, 2020

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 .

October 27, 2020

ISD’s research on the funding strategies of hate groups covered by NBC

NBC News covers of the findings of the ISD report: Bankrolling Bigotry: An overview of the Online Funding Strategies of American Hate Groups.

October 27, 2020

Chloe Colliver speaks about the virality of disinformation on BBC’s Newsnight

ISD's Chloe Colliver appears on BBC's Newsnight to discuss how disinformation can spread, using the example of a fake announcement.