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

May 8, 2026

Iran’s meme strategy blurs the line between entertainment and propaganda

ISD's Bret Schafer talks to the Wall Street Journal about Iran's shift in communications strategy since the beginning of the conflict with the US.

May 2, 2026

Recommendation systems and the rapid exposure to antisemitism online

April 26, 2026

Active Clubs engage in ‘forest fights’ across US

April 24, 2026

Iran’s novel approach to war propaganda

April 17, 2026

Iran takes new approach to war propaganda

April 17, 2026

ISD report results in disruption of threat to Washington school

April 8, 2026

ISD’s Cody Zoschak featured in CNN documentary on True Crime Community

March 16, 2026

‘Germanic New Medicine’ spreads dangerously on Telegram, ISD finds

March 14, 2026

Iran floods global social media with AI content during ongoing conflict

Recent Media mentions

November 11, 2022

NBA star Kyrie Irving’s Amazon searches led him down an antisemitic rabbit hole

MSNBC draws on ISD's report on how Amazon searches can steer users toward racist and other extremist material.

November 11, 2022

Twitter’s potential demise puts archive of world’s digital history at stake

Ciarán O'Connor and Elise Thomas discuss Twitter's potential collapse and its implications for digital and human history in MIT Technology Review.

November 9, 2022

Election conspiracists set fraud foundation ahead of the US midterms

ISD provided research and commentary to POLITICO on local election fraud narratives that were spreading ahead of the US midterms.

November 9, 2022

ISD’s Jiore Craig: reconsider what you share online, “slow down”

ISD's Jiore Craig joined Bloomberg’s Emily Chang to discuss election deniers, combating misinformation, and the future of Twitter.

November 6, 2022

ISD research features in BBC investigation on election misinformation

BBC's Marianna Spring led an investigation across major social media platforms using 5 personas representing different US political views.

November 6, 2022

Climate delayism narratives resurface to distract from COP27 efforts

Jennie King commented to POLITICO about the far right's "turbocharged" focus on the energy crisis, which populists wrongly blame on green policies.

November 5, 2022

Non-profit researchers pick up social media platforms’ slack ahead of Election Day in the US

ISD's Jiore Craig told the NYT that YouTube's video-first nature and lack of resources allow misinformation to go undetected on the platform.

November 4, 2022

Twitter layoffs clear the way for election misinformation ahead of the US midterms

ISD's Katherine Keneally spoke to the Washington Post about how the recent cuts to Twitter's workforce may impact the US elections this week.