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

September 10, 2022

The 1972 Munich Olympic Games attack informs current counter-terrorism efforts

In a new documentary, Julia Ebner analyses the counter-terrorism failures and outcomes of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games attacks.

September 8, 2022

Jared Holt: Trump is openly promoting QAnon theories and supporters on Truth Social

In The Daily Beast, ISD's Jared Holt argues it's a mistake to give Donald Trump plausible deniability for promoting QAnon on Truth Social.

September 7, 2022

Kremlin-linked accounts use beauty influencer imagery to target men with disinformation

Newsweek has featured findings from Moustafa Ayad's research published in Propaganda Primping: The ‘Kremlinistas’ of Twitter.

September 4, 2022

Internet and democracy: A ‘tenuous’ and ‘fraught’ relationship

Jared Holt features in CBS's Face the Nation, discussing the role of the Internet as an "accelerator and a multiplier" in spreading extremist content.

September 4, 2022

ABC News host asks White House adviser about ISD’s findings following Biden’s speech on the ‘MAGA’ threat

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz asked Keisha Lance Bottoms about ISD’s findings after Biden’s primetime speech on “MAGA” threats to democracy.

September 4, 2022

Trump’s influence limited to a “closed feedback loop”

ISD Senior Analyst Jared Holt speaks with French news agency AFP about Trump's limited reach in pushing conspiracies nowadays.

August 31, 2022

COVID conspiracists spark the latest culture war over drag queen readings in the UK

ISD's Tim Squirrell spoke to VICE about the anti-LGBTQ+ campaign that has followed a tour of drag queen readings to children in UK public libraries.

August 26, 2022

RT Arabic and unofficial outlets are winning the information war in the Middle East

ISD's Moustafa Ayad's talks to DW about RT Arabic's popularity in the Middle East and how its winning the information war in the region.