14/03/2024
ISD fellows Christian Schwieter and Milan Gandhi on behalf of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom look at the impact of AI in political communication and trust in the media.
14/03/2024
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 implemented in an ideologically agnostic fashion, free from party politicisation & involving close collaboration and trust-building with civil society and community groups.
15/08/2023
ISD contributed to a submission to the online consultation on the UN’s Global Digital Compact, as part of a coalition of a coalition of UK experts on violence against women and girls.
03/08/2023
In the lead up to J6, ISD provided daily briefings to the FBI from our online monitoring, identifying threats relating to the 2020 presidential election. Our findings are referenced in a Senate committee's report on the Intelligence Community's failures.
22/06/2023
ISD research reveals that anti-drag protests, threats and violence continue to accelerate in the US and illuminates the coalitions of actors driving it.
13/06/2023
New research from ISD reveals TikTok continues to host Islamic State propaganda, identifying a pro-caliphate support network on TikTok that has garnered more than a million collective viewers to date, with seemingly no consequences from the platform.
05/06/2023
ISD has outlined recommendations for the European Commission as they finalise the delegated act that will determine how Article 40 of the Digital Services Act is implemented early next year.
20/01/2023
ISD and CAAD launch a new flagship report outlining mis- and disinformation trends and charting a course ahead, resulting from analysis of online activity before, during and after COP27.
28/09/2022
ISD finds evidence that the campaign team of Eric Zemmour deployed prohibited social media tactics on Facebook and Twitter to create a distorted perception of support ahead of the 2022 presidential and legislative elections in France.
07/09/2022
ISD finds dozens of pro-Islamic State pages across social media platforms spreading propaganda to over 100,000 followers, reaching millions.
16/08/2022
New research from ISD finds Facebook and Twitter are presenting users searching for news about Ukraine with substantial amounts of pro-Kremlin material and information from unverified sources.
16/08/2022
ISD's Aoife Gallagher tracked the discussion of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak and its transmission in children, charting its rapid descent into an anti-LGBTQ+ disinformation campaign.
28/06/2022
In response to major concerns around disinformation attacks during the 2022 French elections, the Online Election Integrity Watch Group brought together for the first-time a group of researchers to monitor information manipulation online meant to sway public opinion.
09/06/2022
Following our work around COP26, ISD and the 20+ member coalition Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) are pleased to release our report “Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26 and Beyond”.
31/10/2021
ISD and eight partner organisations across the climate sector launched a real-time monitoring unit (‘War Room’) to assess information attacks against the COP26 summit.
03/06/2021
In a report for the EC, ISD outlines an alarming 13x and 7x respective increase of antisemitic posts between January 2020 and March 2021 in German- and French-language accounts across social media platforms.
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