“This is why Grandmother Mary Johnson got her concealed carry permit online.” “Iranian sleeper cells are active in the US right now.” “VETERANS: New legislation lets you get your concealed carry ...

Over the span of half a decade, the aesthetics of online ecosystems surrounding jihadist groups have shifted dramatically. Change has been driven by a younger generation of supporters, alongside ...

Matryoshka, also known as Operation Overload or Storm-1679, is a Russian influence operation (IO) aligned with the Kremlin that uses fabricated and manipulated content to target political audiences.

This report is available in Spanish. Large language models (LLMs) that underpin AI chatbots have taken on an expanding role in shaping the information environment. Roughly 25 percent of American ...

The San Diego mosque shooting was an ideologically motivated act of neo-Nazi accelerationist violence, but the attackers’ pathways into that violence were more diffuse than their target selection and ...

Narratives that treat people as a threat to society solely based on their migrant status are becoming increasingly normalised. ISD provides in-depth analysis of these dynamics, including the networks ...

Multiple Russian information operations are converging on Armenia in an apparent attempt to influence parliamentary elections on 7 June, mainly by undermining the candidacy of current Prime Minister ...

Since the start of the Iran war in February, X accounts for Iranian embassies and officials have embraced “shitposting” as a form of statecraft. Shitposting is known to be low-effort, provocative ...

Over the first month of the Iran war, posts from two coordinated pro-Iranian networks on X generated more than a billion views. This staggering figure resulted from sustained engagement with false, ...

Since 2021, a distinct model of white supremacist organizing (dubbed ‘White Nationalism 3.0’) has gained traction across Canada. The model serves as the organizational foundation for so-called ‘Active ...

Recent acts of violence linked to subcultures of nihilistic violence have captured the discourse on youth radicalization. However, the broader trend of youth radicalization is not confined to these ...

Nationwide protests in Iran which began in December 2025 quickly became one of the greatest threats ever to face the Islamic Republic. In response, the government has perpetrated mass killings (with ...