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

May 8, 2026

Iran’s meme strategy blurs the line between entertainment and propaganda

ISD's Bret Schafer talks to the Wall Street Journal about Iran's shift in communications strategy since the beginning of the conflict with the US.

May 2, 2026

Recommendation systems and the rapid exposure to antisemitism online

April 26, 2026

Active Clubs engage in ‘forest fights’ across US

April 24, 2026

Iran’s novel approach to war propaganda

April 17, 2026

Iran takes new approach to war propaganda

April 17, 2026

ISD report results in disruption of threat to Washington school

April 8, 2026

ISD’s Cody Zoschak featured in CNN documentary on True Crime Community

March 16, 2026

‘Germanic New Medicine’ spreads dangerously on Telegram, ISD finds

March 14, 2026

Iran floods global social media with AI content during ongoing conflict

Recent Media mentions

August 22, 2023

Katherine Keneally: Threats against public officials likely to rise further in the run-up to November 2024

ISD's Katherine Keneally spoke to The Hill about the rise in threats against public officials, which will likely rise ahead of the 2024 US election.

August 20, 2023

Jennie King: Climate change policy in the UK is feeding into “cultural confrontation and identity politics”

ISD’s Jennie King told Euronews how the climate crisis has been weaponised and is now central to culture wars in the UK.

August 18, 2023

Jared Holt on new images of Trump’s lawyer following Alex Jones around on January 6

ISD’s Jared Holt comments on new CNN evidence placing Trump’s lawyer Kenneth Chesebro at the attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021.

August 15, 2023

Sasha Havlicek on reactions against public interest research: “Who’s the censor now?”

ISD CEO Sasha Havlicek spoke with WIRED about the backlash ISD received after finding a spike in antisemitism after Elon Musk took over Twitter.

August 11, 2023

Americans resorting to violence to solve differences, officials in the crosshairs

ISD’s Katherine Keneally speaks to NPR about the current threat landscape in the US following the death of a Utah man who pointed a gun at FBI agents.

August 11, 2023

Jared Holt: “‘I’m just joking’ is a lazy defense for creating harmful content”

Jared Holt spoke to Rolling Stone about homesteading content creator Wranglerstar's use of more extreme content, pushing back on humour as an excuse.

August 2, 2023

World’s second largest coffee chain becomes the target of an anti-LGBTQ+ campaign

NBC News references our research findings on anti-LGBTQ+ discourse in the US and how it is being replicated in countries around the world.

July 31, 2023

Julia Ebner: Is it too late to stop democracies from being taken over by conspiratorial thinking?

ISD Senior Resident Research Fellow Julia Ebner wrote an op-ed for The Guardian about how conspiracy thinking has seeped into the mainstream.