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

June 30, 2022

Son of ‘brutal dictator’ elected president of the Philippines with the assistance of TikTok

ISD's Ciarán O'Connor spoke to the Washington Post about the role of TikTok in the election campaign of Bongbong Marcos in the Philippines.

June 28, 2022

How foreign influence was barred from interfering in the 2022 French elections

ISD's Iris Boyer spoke with AFP about our findings on the resiliency of the French online ecosystem during the 2022 elections.

June 22, 2022

Social media business models inducing hate and polarisation online

ISD’s Iris Boyer joined a panel on France’s LCP discussing the spread of online hate and the role social networks play.

June 17, 2022

Young Cities North Macedonia provides platform for issue-based dialogue

Albanian-language national broadcaster Alsat covered Young Cities' recent event, the Youth Policy and Engagement Forum.

June 16, 2022

Amnesty International responds to our findings on Facebook’s failure in stopping extremist content in East Africa

Amnesty International and HAKI Africa released a joint statement expressing "deep concern" over our findings about Facebook's moderation failures.

June 15, 2022

Facebook fails to identify terrorist content threatening East Africa

Our recent report documenting the unmoderated spread of terrorist content on Facebook in East Africa is featured by AP News.

June 15, 2022

Lack of non-English language moderating tactics permitting spread of terrorist content in Africa

ISD’s Moustafa Ayad spoke to BBC's Focus on Africa programme to discuss our recent report into terrorist content on Facebook in East Africa.

June 13, 2022

Sky News Australia deemed ‘hub’ for climate misinformation

ISD's report Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26 and Beyond has been featured in The Guardian.