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

September 2, 2026

Canada must modernize school violence prevention amid diverse threat environment

In an article in The Globe and Mail, ISD's Steven Rai writes how Canada must shift its school violence prevention model.

July 14, 2026

ISD finds mainstream social media platforms refer users to ‘nudify’ apps

May 8, 2026

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

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

Recent Media mentions

July 23, 2020

QAnon, coronavirus and the conspiracy cult

Aoife Gallagher makes her BBC debut on video report about QAnon, coronavirus and the conspiracy cult.

July 12, 2020

Extremists use BBC theme to trick Facebook into showing vile clips

ISD Deputy Director for Technology, Communications, and Education, is quoted in The Times on how IS circumvents moderation on social media.

July 6, 2020

TikTok’s Boogaloo extremism problem

Chloe Oliver, Head of Digital Policy and Strategy at ISD, is quoted in this BBC report on TikTok's problems with extremism.

July 2, 2020

Facebook targets ‘false news’ amid growing pressure from advertisers

Chloe Colliver, head of the Digital Research Unit at ISD provides insights to this BBC story on 'False News' propagated on Facebook.

June 30, 2020

How Covid-19 spread QAnon in Germany

Jakob Guhl, Coordinator in Policy & Research, contributed to this story on Coda about the sprawling movement which centers on an alleged “deep state.”

June 30, 2020

White supremacists openly organize racist violence on Telegram, report finds

Jakob Guhl talks to CNN about Telegram and its white supremacist problem.

June 22, 2020

Undercover im Nazi-Chat

Jakob Guhl, Coordinator in Policy & Research was interviewed for this ZDF exposé of right wing activity on the Telegram chat platform.

May 12, 2020

Extremists seizing on the pandemic to push their own political agendas

Chloe Colliver is quoted in POLITICO about how COVID-19 is providing a global rallying cry for conspiracy theorists and far-right extremists.