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

October 19, 2021

Climate change deniers weaponise the pandemic and revel under new conspiracy theory

ISD’s Jennie King spoke with Channel 4 News about our latest report “’Climate lockdown’ and the Culture Wars.”

October 19, 2021

How misogynistic hate benefits from algorithms and propels through social media

ISD's Chloe Colliver joins journalist Marianna Spring's investigation on how social media algorithms promote hate toward women.

September 28, 2021

Popular funding services are being used by well-known extremists to finance their activity

ISD Germany and the Global Disinformation Index found that German far-right groups and actors are using well-known funding services on their websites.

September 20, 2021

Far-right extremists live out fantasies on gaming platforms

ISD's Jacob Davey spoke with BBC Click about far-right extremist activity on gaming platforms.

September 10, 2021

Prioritizing human rights in the aftermath of the so-called War on Terror

The global War on Terror has further fueled extremist discourse around the world, according to ISD's Moustafa Ayad.

September 7, 2021

Twenty years later: Sasha Havlicek on the global impact of the 9/11 attacks

ISD's CEO, Sasha Havlicek, speaks with Sky News about the global implications of the War on Terror.

August 27, 2021

The far-right and alt-right find common ground with the Taliban

ISD’s Moustafa Ayad provides insight to the New York Times in this piece on "Right Wingers who Admire the Taliban."

August 25, 2021

Hate in plain sight: Extremists unchecked activity spreads on TikTok

Ciarán O’Connor’s research on the state of hate on TikTok is featured in articles by POLITICO Europe, USA Today, Jewish Insider, PBS and The Journal.