Identifying Sock-Puppets on Wikipedia: A Semantic Clustering Approach
This paper investigates potential platform manipulation on Wikipedia using semantic clustering techniques to identify covert and organised manipulation on a larger scale.
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Beyond Definitions: The Need for a Comprehensive Human Rights-Based UK Extremism Policy Strategy
This policy paper lays out the contours of an increasingly hybridised extremism threat landscape facing the UK, before considering the key components of a holistic policy strategy rooted in a rights framework.
Shared Endeavour Fund: Theory of Change
The Theory of Change for the Shared Endeavour Fund was crafted to guide the design, delivery, and evaluation of the fund, unpacking the causal processes, assumptions & evidence supporting its implementation and outcomes.
Shared Endeavour Fund: Call Three Evaluation Report
This report measures the effectiveness of Call Three of the Mayor of London’s Shared Endeavour Fund, a £725,000 civil society funding scheme focused on addressing intolerance, hate and extremism.
A Year of Hate: Anti-Drag Mobilisation Efforts Targeting LGBTQ+ People in Australia
This country profile uses analysis of open sources including social media, protest footage and media interviews to examine the growth of anti-drag hate and harassment in Australia.
Two Years On: An Analysis of Russian State and Pro-Kremlin Information Warfare in the Context of the Invasion of Ukraine
This report outlines the evolution of Russian state & pro-Kremlin propaganda undermining international support for Ukraine since the 2022 invasion, outlining Western vulnerabilities for the next year.
The Fragility of Freedom: Online Holocaust Denial and Distortion
This report, released ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, explores contemporary challenges of online Holocaust denial and distortion with contributions from five authors affiliated with ISD’s Coalition to Counter Online Antisemitism.
Networks of Dissuasion: Mapping Online Attacks on Reproductive Rights in France
This is the English translation of our report examining anti-abortion activity in France across social media platforms. The investigation aims to better understand the actors, narratives and tactics used to spread, amplify and monetise anti-abortion discourse.
In the Blind Spot – Right-wing Extremists on Alternative and Established Platforms
This report is the English translation of the summary of the expert conference "In the Blind Spot - Right Wing Extremists on Alternative and Established Platforms", which took place in Berlin in September 2023.
Hate of the Nation: A Landscape Mapping of Observable, Plausibly Hateful Speech on Social Media
This analysis produced by ISD for Ofcom explores the scale and nature of ‘plausibly hateful’ English-language content collected from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit and 4chan.