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 26, 2021

Can we make the internet safer? Sasha Havlicek on cautions behind ending online anonymity

ISD's Sasha Havlicek participates in a panel on BBC's Sunday Morning Live about internet safety.

October 25, 2021

The Facebook Papers: Hate speech filters through in Middle East thanks to lack of Arabic-language monitoring and faulty AI tech

ISD assisted POLITICO in reviewing the Facebook Papers, a 59-page memo that evidenced that the platform's efforts to curb hate speech are failing.

October 25, 2021

Ciarán O’Connor: Facebook is prioritising platform growth over safety

ISD's Ciarán O'Connor spoke with ABC News about information revealed in the Facebook Papers.

October 22, 2021

Climate of distrust pushes many in the wellness community to turn to misinformation sources

ISD's Cécile Simmons speaks with the WaPo on the appeal of misinformation within the health and wellness community.

October 21, 2021

Terror-related online activity isn’t the only type of extremist content that’s grown since the pandemic

ISD's Jacob Davey speaks to The Guardian in the wake of the killing of MP David Amess about the increase in "harmful" activity during the pandemic.

October 21, 2021

Users circumvent TikTok policies by finding workarounds for publishing toxic content

What makes TikTok so popular is also what makes some its content so toxic among younger users.

October 20, 2021

Social media policies against health disinformation aren’t stopping repeat offenders

ISD's Aoife Gallagher spoke to the WaPo about our latest report "Ill Advice: A Case Study in Facebook’s Failure to Tackle COVID-19 Disinformation."

October 20, 2021

Narrowing gap between online and offline activity as tech platforms “normalise” hate

ISD's Chloe Colliver speaks with the Mirror about how hateful posts and extremist content may be a mirror of the offline world.