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

August 11, 2020

Aoife Gallagher interviewed by The Beacon on the QAnon conspiracy theory

ISD's analysis of the key trends in activity around the QAnon conspiracy theory from 2017 to 2020 features in an article from The Beacon.

August 10, 2020

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

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

Extremists use BBC theme to trick Facebook into showing vile clips

ISD Deputy Director for Technology, Communications, and Education, is quoted in The Times on how IS circumvents moderation on social media.

July 6, 2020

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

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

How Covid-19 spread QAnon in Germany

Jakob Guhl, Coordinator in Policy & Research, contributed to this story on Coda about the sprawling movement which centers on an alleged “deep state.”

June 30, 2020

White supremacists openly organize racist violence on Telegram, report finds

Jakob Guhl talks to CNN about Telegram and its white supremacist problem.