Recent DOJ Action Targets Russian Information Operation at Centre of ISD Research
04/09/2024
US disrupts Russian 'Doppelgänger' campaign, which has long been researched by ISD, seizing 32 domains and imposing sanctions.
Meta shuts down vital transparency tool
14/08/2024
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) today expresses deep concern and disappointment over Meta’s decision to proceed with the closure of its transparency tool, CrowdTangle.
ISD cited in a letter sent by a bipartisan group of US Senators and Congressmen calling on Meta to allow researchers continued access to CrowdTangle
25/07/2024
ISD is cited in a letter sent by a bipartisan group of US Senators and Congressmen to Meta executives urging the social media giant to delay the closure of its transparency tool, CrowdTangle, until after Inauguration Day.
ISD signs a letter calling on Senate leaders to pass three bills aimed at protecting federal elections from deceptive AI-generated content
27/06/2024
On 27 June 2024, ISD along with 57 other organizations sent a letter to Senate leaders calling for their leadership to bring three bipartisan bills on AI and elections to the Senate Rules Committee’s floor for a vote.
ISD’s Julia Ebner receives the prestigious Open Society Prize 2024
21/06/2024
On 21 June, ISD Senior Research Fellow Julia Ebner received the Central European University’s (CEU) Open Society Prize 2024 for her remarkable scholarly contribution to the field of online radicalisation.
ISD supports proposed bipartisan deepfake pornography bill which will be an important step for online safety
18/06/2024
ISD endorsed bipartisan legislation that would require social media sites to take down non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated NCII (also known as “deepfake pornography”) and criminalize its publication.
ISD co-authors a sign-on letter to Meta executives urging them to delay the closure of CrowdTangle
07/05/2024
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 to shut down CrowdTangle.
ISD contributes to shaping the European Commission’s DG-CLIMA policy regarding climate mis- and disinformation
29/04/2024
Last February, ISD briefed the European Commission body responsible for climate action - DG-CLIMA. As a result, three new pathways for responding to climate mis- and disinformation have been enshrined in a new policy framework.
New study from ISD and the Naumann Foundation on AI and its use in politics and the media
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.
ISD response to UK Government extremism definition
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.
ISD contributes to joint civil society submission to the UN on online violence against women and girls
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.
US Senate committee uses ISD analysis for support on its review of Intelligence failures in the lead up to Jan 6
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.
A Year of Hate: Anti-Drag Mobilization Efforts Targeting LGBTQ+ People in the US
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.
CaliphateTok: TikTok continues to host Islamic State propaganda
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.
ISD provides feedback to the EU Commission on data access for researchers under the Digital Services Act
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.
Deny, deceive, delay Vol. 2: Exposing new trends in climate mis- and disinformation at COP27
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.
Amplifying Far-Right Voices: A Case Study on Inauthentic Tactics Used by the Eric Zemmour Campaign
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.
The Terror Times: The Depth and Breadth of the Islamic State Alternative News Outlet Ecosystem Online
07/09/2022
ISD finds dozens of pro-Islamic State pages across social media platforms spreading propaganda to over 100,000 followers, reaching millions.
404: RELIABLE INFORMATION NOT FOUND
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.
Monkeypox and ‘groomers’: How Twitter facilitated a hate-riddled public health disinformation campaign
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.
French online ecosystem found to be resilient despite worrying threats during the 2022 elections
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.
Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26 and Beyond
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”.
COP26 ‘War Room’ launched to provide real-time monitoring on information attacks against the Glasgow summit
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.
Online antisemitism in German and French grew substantially during the Covid-19 pandemic, ISD findings show
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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