Network Contagion Research Institute

NCRI is a neutral and independent organization whose mission is to identify and forecast cyber-social threats and report on them in a timely fashion.

[Network Contagion Research Institute @ncri_io]

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: https://t.co/qIzuPCtCZp

ADL Methodology Exposed — Demonstrating how risk frameworks amplified antisemitism

LINK: https://t.co/XG3LyzNbHS

Work challenging UN bodies

UN Famine Monitoring Failures — Analysis exposing methodological distortions to undermine the United States’ efforts at humanitarian aid.

LINK: https://t.co/SCiJXNsYGV

Work exposing left-wing extremism & violence encouraging networks

Assassination Culture Report — Documenting endorsement of political violence, including calls for violence against Trump

LINK: https://t.co/dNCtTGEodt

Rising Hate on the Left — Findings showing radicalized antifa ecosystems during the BLM riots.

LINK: https://t.co/HJOoOtnQoO

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@yudapearl @ConceptualJames @DataRepublican @SwipeWright @PamelaParesky @PsychRabble @pianozack @adam_louis52328 @JohnnieM @AsraNomani Thanks to lead author
@pianozack
and please read his write up along with
@adam_louis52328
in
@TheFP

https://t.co/DGqHJQiB20

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1/
New @Newsweek op-ed out today, co-authored with NSC Director of Cognitive Advantage Shawn Chenoweth and Turing Award laureate Judea Pearl.We name a pattern that has been difficult to articulate but is now backed by data.https://t.co/RIK0V7uGVV

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@yudapearl @ConceptualJames @DataRepublican @SwipeWright @PamelaParesky @PsychRabble @pianozack @adam_louis52328 @JohnnieM @AsraNomani

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15/Full piece: https://t.co/NwwPeXcUkd
NY Post op-ed with Shawn Chenoweth: https://t.co/5dGBXLYRC6
Fox News investigation on Iranian state media and U.S. protest networks: https://t.co/gtfszQczhB
Moral Inversion research: https://t.co/JAB09dgea6
Hidden Switchboard: https://t.co/tMENN0745F
SID4P/Singham report: https://t.co/hkWP4doHWq
Famine audit: https://t.co/mL0baAClIk

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13/The deeper question is why this pattern reproduces itself.
In hypernationalism, the loyalty test was: defend your nation unconditionally.
The new loyalty test operates in precise inversion: renounce your nation to prove your moral seriousness.

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https://t.co/Vs6MajFc9L

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 Foreign Money Built It. Taxpayers Fund It: Adam Sohn Lays Out the Case Against CAIR Before Congress

This was testimony today at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing by Adam Sohn, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute @ncri_io

Sohn argued the nonprofit sector depends on public trust—helping make the country “healthier, safer, and stronger without being taxed to do so.” But he warned the system is being exploited: nonprofits were never meant to “organize street violence… or serve as proxies for foreign governments.”

His first case study was CAIR. Sohn said CAIR affiliates acknowledged receiving millions from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait—without registering under foreign agent laws—and that since 2022, taxpayers have largely replaced those donors.

He pointed to CAIR California’s public grants: nearly $30 million total, including $7.2 million in federal funds for Afghan refugees. Sohn said CAIR promised 1,800 served but delivered 177, while millions still moved—over $3.7 million back into CAIR’s offices.

Sohn also alleged a signed statement to Congress denying CAIR’s control over the grant “appears to be false,” citing grant documents naming CAIR California as administrator—what he called a “material misrepresentation to Congress.”

“This is what nonprofit capture looks like when it matures. Foreign money builds the network, taxpayers unknowingly keep it alive, and civil society bears the cost.”

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https://t.co/rDd3DqWjBq

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NCRI assesses that the Democratic Socialists of America acts as an unregistered foreign agent inside the United States. We assess that DSA coordinates with hostile foreign states through delegations and joint activity, receives undisclosed material support such as in-kind benefits and luxury travel, and fails to report this support on required tax filings. We further assess that DSA imports the narratives and tactics developed abroad into the United States and deploys them to drive protests against ICE, law enforcement, and other domestic institutions, creating a direct pipeline from foreign coordination to domestic unrest

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Far-left group with foreign ties undermining US under guise of protest, report warns https://t.co/J5Dg0rAFtO

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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 manufactured ecosystem, not genuine momentum.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵 THREAD: NCRI's Analysis: How Abuse of 𝕏's Platform boosted Nick Fuentes

A few days ago, @elonmusk got "ratioed" by Nick Fuentes.

The air quotes are intentional. There was nothing organic about the ratio.

This morning, Network Contagion Research Institute (@ncri_io) released a forensic breakdown of how Nick Fuentes' sudden rise over the past year was driven by synthetic amplification, foreign engagement clusters, and coordinated raid behavior.

I read the full report and asked NCRI some clarifying questions about their methodology. The findings are staggering.

As always, patience as I pull this thread together. 👇