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 22, 2026

ISD’s Milo Comerford discusses new documentary on the Com at UK Parliament

ISD’s Milo Comerford joined an expert panel discussing the findings of the documentary and how to further prevent online violence targeting children.

October 9, 2026

Scam advertisements promoting concealed carry permits target vulnerable populations

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

Recent Media mentions

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.

August 26, 2022

Homophobic slurs linked to monkeypox continue to spread on Twitter

Insider has used ISD research to report on the surge of homophobic rhetoric online since the WHO declared monkeypox a public health emergency.

August 26, 2022

Platforms’ content moderation efforts fall short in Kenya

The Standard cites ISD research in their reporting on Kenya's information landscape and the potential danger posed by large social media platforms.