IDDP is a multidisciplinary effort consisting of top scholars from a range of disciplines to focus on essential research into digital discourse, disinformation, and their impacts. Their work reaches wide audiences via publication in top academic journals, coverage in mass media outlets, and engagement with policymakers and practitioners. While organized into research clusters, individual researchers are not strictly assigned to any one cluster. Each may join in the research of other clusters according to need and interests.

Conducting research on specific cases of pernicious content to help produce high-impact news articles.

Investigating both the effects of potentially harmful online content and ways to mitigate them.