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Terrorism and Extremism

ISD’s Julia Ebner receives the prestigious Open Society Prize 2024

June 21, 2024

On 21 June, ISD Senior Research Fellow Julia Ebner received the Central European University’s (CEU) Open Society Prize 2024 for her remarkable scholar

Emerging Technologies, Kids Online Safety, Misogyny

ISD supports proposed bipartisan deepfake pornography bill which will be an important step for online safety

June 18, 2024

ISD endorsed bipartisan legislation that would require social media sites to take down non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated

Data Access and Transparency

ISD co-authors a sign-on letter to Meta executives urging them to delay the closure of CrowdTangle

May 7, 2024

ISD and the Center for American Progress sent a letter to Meta executives on behalf of 51 organizations and researchers about the company's decision t

Climate

ISD contributes to shaping the European Commission’s DG-CLIMA policy regarding climate mis- and disinformation

April 29, 2024

Last February, ISD briefed the European Commission body responsible for climate action - DG-CLIMA. As a result, three new pathways for responding to c

Terrorism and Extremism

ISD response to UK Government extremism definition

March 14, 2024

While it is positive to see the UK's new framing of extremism rooted on its real threat to human rights & social cohesion, the definition must be impl