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, universities, and journalists across the spectrum because our commitment is singular: follow the data, not the politics. On accusations that NCRI serves ADL, the UN, Soros, or any political faction: We have published research in major national publications that ADL’s DEI-style methodologies can increase hate. That they have irresponsibly distorted risk assessments, and have even promoted left-wing extremists. - We have published findings in major national publications on UN bodies misrepresenting or manipulating conflict data for political reasons. - We have exposed how left-leaning populations in the U.S. now endorse political violence and assassination against Donald Trump, evidence cited by the current Director of National Intelligence. - Our research has also documented anti-American, foreign, and authoritarian information operations. This is not the behavior of an organization who has any partisan leanings. It is the behavior of analysts who answer only to the evidence in the interest of protecting American values. The claim that NCRI collaborates, serves, or works with the ADL, Open Society, or (fill in the blank) collapses under even minimal scrutiny. The claims are designed to smear the messenger rather than ask: Is the message itself true? NCRI has publicly contradicted and critiqued each of the above institutions when the data required it. Citations below. How we work: - Transparent, replicable methods - Open data whenever security permits - Peer-reviewed analytic techniques in computational social science - No political or donor direction - No advocacy agenda. - Just analysis, evidence, and accountability. We understand that our findings will make different groups uncomfortable at different times. That is unavoidable when you tell empirical truths in a polarized era. But personal attacks do not change the data. NCRI will continue to follow the evidence wherever it goes—without fear or favor. On early funding: Soon after NCRI’s launch in 2018, in an attempt to show that organizations that would typically disagree would find common ground on data-driven evidence, we did collaborate on projects that involved the ADL, Open Society, and Koch Foundation. Following these early collaborations in 2018, we never worked with these organizations again. And, as noted above, we have always followed the data, often at the expense of these very organizations. These early grants have never influenced our governance, our methods, or our research agenda. Today, NCRI is supported by an entirely different donor base and is fully independent. RECEIPTS: Examples of NCRI Independence Work contradicting and challenging ADL & DEI frameworks DEI as a Driver of Hate — Showing how DEI-trained environments increased antisemitic attitudes and hostility LINK: foxnews.com/politics/new-stu… ADL Methodology Exposed — Demonstrating how risk frameworks amplified antisemitism LINK: thefp.com/p/is-the-adl-inadv… Work challenging UN bodies UN Famine Monitoring Failures — Analysis exposing methodological distortions to undermine the United States’ efforts at humanitarian aid. LINK: dailywire.com/news/how-the-u… Work exposing left-wing extremism & violence encouraging networks Assassination Culture Report — Documenting endorsement of political violence, including calls for violence against Trump LINK: foxnews.com/us/new-bombshell… Rising Hate on the Left — Findings showing radicalized antifa ecosystems during the BLM riots. LINK: cnn.com/2020/09/16/us/far-le…