What guides our work: The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) is an independent, nonpartisan research center that investigates manipulation, coordinated and foreign influence operations, and harms to children. Our work is cited by Congress, federal agencies,

Nick Fuentes’s rise was not organic. NCRI data show he directly cultivated and participated in coordinated raids that foreign engagement farms and anonymous accounts then amplified to distort his reach. There is a real audience behind him, but the scale you see online is a

“For decades, institutions have poured billions into programs designed to fight racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, caste discrimination, and other forms of bias... @ncri_io sought to understand the effects of the way we teach about identity-based harm.” My latest for @PsychToday

X’s great unmasking of account location is a monumental step toward online transparency. And it reminds us that in a borderless online world, digital borders matter.

FYI: The pro-Hamas “People’s Conference for Palestine” domain is registered to The People’s Forum, a NY-based “movement incubator” largely funded by Roy Neville Singham — a China-based billionaire under congressional investigation for potential CCP ties.

Incredible work by @RecordedFuture here. Please give it a listen.

Two weeks ago, I noticed something strange: the same emaciated toddler in Gaza that The New York Times had put on its front page had also appeared in nearly every mainstream outlet. Different news organizations, different photographers, same boy. So I did something no one else

Proud to share that @PoliceOne has featured Narravance’s latest report, “Escalating Anti-ICE Rhetoric and Real-World Threat Convergence,” uncovers how viral social media campaigns, activist doxxing sites, and coordinated digital narratives.

An investigation by @BILD reveals that a staggering percentage of images coming out of Gaza are staged by Hamas-aligned photographers and sold to Western media outlets. This builds on @ncri_io's earlier report exposing the media’s heavy, undisclosed reliance on Hamas-linked

These emails and invoices are from the Press TV Files, much of which are in Persian and were released on Telegram in 2022 by a self-described hacktivist group called Black Reward. The files were later archived by DDoSecrets, and their existence was previously reported by The

Why did Reuters continue a business relationship with a broadcaster who targeted a Thompson Reuters Foundation Employee? Has this relationship impacted how Reuters covers Iran, IRIB, Press TV, or the Middle East more broadly?

These services were apparently provided while Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British citizen and Reuters Foundation employee, was imprisoned in Iran’s Evin Prison. During that time, Press TV aired false propaganda about her to justify her detention—the very outlet Reuters was

Newswires and video feeds are essential for any broadcaster, including state-run outlets. Reuters admitted that “IRIB and Press TV depend heavily on Reuters video and text services and want to make sure these services continue without interruption.” How significant was Reuters'

Reuters did not disclose to investors that its client was IRIB—Iran’s most powerful state media group, with ties to the regime’s intelligence services. In filings, it referred only to “one broadcasting entity in Iran” and cited a U.S. sanctions exemption for “informational

Reuters noted its services were especially important to IRIB during “the recent Palestine/Israel crisis”—likely referring to the 2021 Gaza conflict. They also referenced tens of thousands of unique stories/video (live and footage) from Reuters that were on rotation hundreds of

Reuters made clear how dependent IRIB and Press TV were on its services and how important it was to keep them flowing. “IRIB and Press TV have depended heavily on Reuters video and text services and I want to make sure that these services continue without any interruptions.” “I

The Reuters director emails were addressed to two key figures: Peyman Jebelli and Ahmad Noroozi—later sanctioned by the U.S., EU, and Canada for their role in broadcasting coerced confessions and collaborating with Iranian intelligence.

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Reuters director thanked IRIB for making the introduction to a third-party agent. He confirmed an agreement with the agent and pushed repeatedly for payment, stressing the need to keep services running “without any interruptions.”

Leaked internal emails from 2021 obtained by NCRI show a Reuters director sought roughly $3.88M in overdue payments from IRIB, Press TV’s parent org. Likely due to sanctions, IRIB couldn’t pay directly, so it introduced a third-party agent. Reuters agreed to receive payment