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 13, 2022

ISD brings terrorism and violent extremism expertise to Spotify Safety Advisory Council

This is the first safety-focused council of this sort to be created by a major audio company.

June 11, 2022

Podcast: The current climate disinformation ecosystem is delaying urgent climate action

Our Head of Climate Disinformation, Jennie King, along with fellow Climate Change Coalition member Michael Khoo, discuss climate disinformation.

June 10, 2022

ISD’s Jacob Davey on the mainstreaming of the ‘Great Replacement’ theory

ISD's Jacob Davey took part in a panel for The Real Story on BBC World Service discussing the dynamics driving the Great Replacement conspiracy.

June 9, 2022

Climate action sidetracked by ‘culture wars’ and delay tactics

ISD’s head of climate disinformation, Jennie King, spoke with the Guardian about our findings monitoring climate mis- and disinformation around COP26.

June 9, 2022

Podcast: Climate action up against delayism and culture wars politics

ISD’s Jennie King is a guest on The Conduit speaking about climate mis- and disinformation and the small, closing window for action we are facing.

June 9, 2022

Climate delayism narratives outperforming science-based content on Twitter, Facebook

Newsweek profiles our report on evidencing trends of mis- and disinformation identified around COP26.

May 29, 2022

New Pro-Kremlin media outlet Southern Front is targeting Russian occupied areas in Ukraine

ISD's Julia Smirnova on pro-Kremlin media outlet Southern Front disseminating misleading claims over areas in Ukraine newly under Russian control.

May 27, 2022

Conspiracists turn to familiar pattern following the Uvalde school shooting

ISD's Melanie Smith comments to Grid News about how "conspiracy theories thrive" in moments of crises like the Uvalde school shooting.