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

August 18, 2023

Jared Holt on new images of Trump’s lawyer following Alex Jones around on January 6

ISD’s Jared Holt comments on new CNN evidence placing Trump’s lawyer Kenneth Chesebro at the attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021.

August 15, 2023

Sasha Havlicek on reactions against public interest research: “Who’s the censor now?”

ISD CEO Sasha Havlicek spoke with WIRED about the backlash ISD received after finding a spike in antisemitism after Elon Musk took over Twitter.

August 11, 2023

Americans resorting to violence to solve differences, officials in the crosshairs

ISD’s Katherine Keneally speaks to NPR about the current threat landscape in the US following the death of a Utah man who pointed a gun at FBI agents.

August 11, 2023

Jared Holt: “‘I’m just joking’ is a lazy defense for creating harmful content”

Jared Holt spoke to Rolling Stone about homesteading content creator Wranglerstar's use of more extreme content, pushing back on humour as an excuse.

August 2, 2023

World’s second largest coffee chain becomes the target of an anti-LGBTQ+ campaign

NBC News references our research findings on anti-LGBTQ+ discourse in the US and how it is being replicated in countries around the world.

July 31, 2023

Julia Ebner: Is it too late to stop democracies from being taken over by conspiratorial thinking?

ISD Senior Resident Research Fellow Julia Ebner wrote an op-ed for The Guardian about how conspiracy thinking has seeped into the mainstream.

July 30, 2023

Video games, the new backdrop for the Russian information war

ISD’s Jacob Davey was interviewed by The New York Times about how pro-Kremlin actors are using Minecraft to reach a vulnerable young audience.

July 29, 2023

Profile on Julia Ebner for The Times: “My life undercover” infiltrating extremist groups

ISD’s Senior Resident Research Fellow Julia Ebner was interviewed by The Times about her research career and her latest book.