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

July 28, 2026

Popular image generation models are creating deepfake nudes

WIRED spoke to ISD's Leonie Oehmig about image generation models' problem with explicit deepfakes.

July 28, 2026

What Andrew Tate’s arrest means for his manosphere following

ISD's Sid Venkataramakrishnan joined TalkTV to discuss Andrew Tate's recent arrest and the manosphere writ large.

July 27, 2026

Where Islamist and far-right targeting of queer people meet

ISD's Jakob Guhl spoke to RBB's radio3 about how Islamist extremists target the queer community.

July 24, 2026

Highlighting ISD research on AI chatbots and radicalisation risks

A recent post by the Council on Technology and Social Cohesion highlighted ISD’s new report on the role of AI chatbots in radicalisation.

July 23, 2026

Canadian nationalist group promotes self-proclaimed ‘Bigotfest’ on social media

CBC cited ISD's research on Second Sons Canada after the group promoted a self-proclaimed "Bigotfest" on social media.

July 14, 2026

UFC terror plotters’ motivations raise questions about threat prioritization

The men indicted in plot targeting the White House UFC event held a wide variety of grievances, prompting questions about threat prioritization.

July 13, 2026

Extremists are using AI to build propaganda — and plan attacks

ISD's Moustafa Ayad tells DW how the jihad ecosystem is using AI to spread their propaganda.

July 12, 2026

UK security system ill-equipped to address rising threat of nihilistic violence

Cody Zoschak spoke to The i Paper about the rise in nihilistic violence and why UK security systems are ill-equipped to address it.