For 20 years, ISD has delivered field-leading threat detection, analysis and real-world strategies to combat terrorism, extremism and authoritarianism - in all their ideological forms.

Democratic Integrity

ISD works to detect threats to democracy and democratic institutions around the world. Recent work includes safeguarding election integrity in the United States, the UK, Germany, Canada, France, Kenya, Australia, Ireland and Poland. Our work informs capacity-building efforts for civil society, briefings for national, state and local authorities, and expert testimony for federal committees on threats to democratic processes.

May 27, 2026

All operations on Armenia: Russia’s influence machine targets the vote

Multiple Russian information operations are converging on Armenia in an apparent attempt to influence parliamentary elections on 7 June

Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

February 12, 2026

No time to lose: Liberal democracies can win the cognitive and hybrid war against authoritarians

Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

January 13, 2026

Mysterious news source floods Facebook with ads in wake of California redistricting battle

Democratic Integrity, Tech Accountability and Safety

November 28, 2025

Assessment of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference in the 2025 Czech Parliamentary Election

Democratic Integrity

November 14, 2025

Spoil the vote campaign spreads falsehoods during Irish election

Democratic Integrity, Tech Accountability and Safety

October 31, 2025

Irish Presidential Election 2025: Renewed attacks on election integrity and repeated platform failures

Accountability and Speech Protection, Democratic Integrity

October 30, 2025

From Bucharest to Prague: The spread of the ‘Romanian Scenario’ conspiracy theory in Czechia’s elections

Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

September 12, 2025

Czechia: Election Risk Assessment | FIMI Response Team Report

Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

September 8, 2025

Friedrich Merz targeted by Russian campaigns for Support of Ukraine

Democratic Integrity, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse

Further Reading

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.

Democratic Integrity, Far-Right Extremism, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

August 16, 2022

La campagne de l’intimidation : étude de cas des violences numériques envers les candidats aux élections de 2022

Ce rapport couvre le harcèlement et les attaques contre les candidats aux élections françaises de 2022.

Anti-Migrant, Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Public Health, Terrorism and Extremism

August 4, 2022

Op-Ed: TikTok, the new arena for election disinformation

ISD's Ciarán O'Connor wrote an op-ed on the different ways TikTok is being weaponised during election periods in countries all around the world. 

Democratic Integrity, Tech Accountability and Safety

July 25, 2022

QAnon boom fades as the U.S. inches closer to primary elections

Jared Holt spoke to NYT about how supporting QAnon in the US doesn't necessarily equate to a successful campaign ahead of the 2022 primary election.

Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

June 30, 2022

Son of ‘brutal dictator’ elected president of the Philippines with the assistance of TikTok

ISD's Ciarán O'Connor spoke to the Washington Post about the role of TikTok in the election campaign of Bongbong Marcos in the Philippines.

Democratic Integrity, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

June 28, 2022

How foreign influence was barred from interfering in the 2022 French elections

ISD's Iris Boyer spoke with AFP about our findings on the resiliency of the French online ecosystem during the 2022 elections.

Democratic Integrity, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

May 26, 2022

Australians dissatisfied with election outcome turn to baseless voter fraud theories

ISD's Elise Thomas spoke with VICE News about the general conspiracist sentiment setting over Australia since the general elections in May.

Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

May 19, 2022

The ‘Great Reset’ conspiracy in Australia

This Dispatch is the first of two on World Economic Forum and 'Great Reset' conspiracy theories spread during the 2022 Australian federal elections.

Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

April 19, 2022

The “Mosaic Project:” ISD’s joint initiative to combat disinformation during the Australian federal election

ISD's Head of Digital Integrity, Jiore Craig, spoke to SBS News about the Mosaic Project, a joint initiative tracking disinformation.

Democratic Integrity, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

April 19, 2022

Jiore Craig: “Australia is another petri dish for bad actors to experiment with as they try out tactics to sow distrust in elections”

ISD's Jiore Craig spoke with ABC's RN Breakfast show about disinformation and misinformation being spread ahead of the Australian elections.

Democratic Integrity, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

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