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

July 21, 2023

‘Sustainability’ festival cancelled after activists expose it as a conspiracy theorist event

ISD’s Ciarán O’Connor spoke to VICE about the ‘Think Local Festival’ that was cancelled after organisers were exposed as being conspiracy theorists.

July 18, 2023

UAE’s Presidency of COP28: A commitment to renewable energies or an opportunity for greenwashing?

ISD’s Jennie King spoke to CNN about the implications of UAE hosting COP28.

July 14, 2023

Q and A with Julia Ebner: We’re at the beginning of the “digital Middle Ages”

Julia Ebner speaks to El País's Jordi Pérez Colomé about gateways into extremist ideology and technology's role in mainstreaming extremism.

July 11, 2023

Jennie King: Climate denial content removal policies are unenforceable, demonetisation is the solution

ISD’s Head of Climate Research, Jennie King, featured in Deutsche Welle talking about what makes climate mis- and disinformation thrive.

July 9, 2023

Can Meta deliver on its promise of making Threads a “kinder” alternative to Twitter?

ISD’s Head of Research, Melanie Smith, speaks to The Guardian about right-wing figures signing up for Threads, Meta's "kinder" alternative to Twitter.

July 2, 2023

Moms for Liberty rejects SPLC’s ‘extremist’ designation during summit engulfed in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric

In an op-ed for the Daily Beast, ISD’s Jared Holt reflects on the Republican presidential hopefuls that attended the recent Moms for Liberty summit.

July 1, 2023

Pro-Kremlin network targets young people in Germany via TikTok, YouTube and more

ISD's Julia Smirnova features in a German daily commenting on an ISD investigation that uncovered the latest network linked to Russian State media.

June 30, 2023

TikTok fails to enforce content removal of climate change-denial videos, BBC investigation finds

ISD's Jennie King speaks with the BBC on their recent investigation on TikTok's content removal policy relating to videos climate misinformation.