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 25, 2022

LGBTQ+ monkeypox hate speech spreads on Twitter

ISD's Aoife Gallagher speaks to Euronews about her recent investigations looking into monkeypox conversations on Twitter.

August 23, 2022

Irish Gardaí monitoring online circles as conspiracists “predictably” latch on to monkeypox

ISD's Aoife Gallagher spoke to The Journal about how Irish conspiracy circles have latched on to monkeypox in the same way they did with COVID-19.

August 23, 2022

Saba Yassin on ISD’s Youth Civic Action Academy in Jordan

Saba Yassin, ISD's Jordan Program Manager, features on Radio Amman FM speaking about ISD and the Youth Civic Action Academy project.

August 23, 2022

Six months of war in Ukraine and a decade of disinformation

Ciarán O'Connor has written for the Irish Examiner, sharing his observations from the past six months investigating the war in Ukraine.

August 22, 2022

Fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie unites Islamist extremists around the world

A religious order issued by an Islamic leader over 33 years ago in Iran is unifying extremists globally following the attack on Salman Rushdie.

August 19, 2022

TikTok is struggling to detect extremist content following Mar-a-Lago search

ISD's Katherine Keneally features on a segment of NPR's Here & Now on the current state of TikTok following the Mar-a-Lago raid earlier this month.

August 19, 2022

Katherine Keneally on the rise of far-right extremism in the US

ISD's Katherine Keneally speaks about the rise of extremism in the US and why it will require a dynamic response.

August 19, 2022

Dangerous homophobic monkeypox conspiracies spreading on Twitter

Our Dispatch on Monkeypox conspiracies against the LGBTQ+ community is featured in Coda Story's weekly newsletter on science-related disinformation.