Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) Germany is Berlin-based and forms part of a network of legally independent nonprofits (ISD UK, US, Jordan and France) dedicated to countering what it designates as hate speech, extremism and disinformation. Opened in autumn 2020, the office complements ISD’s London hub (founded 2006) and collaborates with Washington and Amman outposts. Its portfolio includes the Digital Policy Lab, launched with Alfred Landecker Foundation and German Federal Foreign Office support; the Business Council for Democracy (BC4D), a workplace-training scheme backed by Hertie and Robert Bosch foundations; and NOTORIOUS, a BMBF-funded study of cross-platform disinformation conducted with HAW Hamburg and the Leibniz Media Institute (€1,137,098, 2021-2025). ISD’s Digital Policy Lab bosts of bringing together “key policymakers to address disinformation, hate speech, extremism and terrorism online,”; it includes a climate disinformation project and “cross-platform identification, monitoring and modelling of disinformation dissemination patterns,” along with a project on “countering radicalization in right-wing extremist online ecosystem on ‘alternative’ platforms.”

ISD Germany also anchors the open-access Campaign Toolkit and works with the Strong Cities Network. Donor registers since 2022 list EU institutions, German ministries and major US-UK philanthropies.