Election 2024: Navigating the Information Battleground
As Americans cast their votes in a pivotal election year, the Alliance for Securing Democracy is tracking and analyzing the forces shaping the digital landscape of democracy. From AI-enhanced disinformation and deepfakes to targeted influence campaigns by foreign adversaries, the 2024 election underscores the need for vigilance. ASD experts offer insights and analysis to help voters navigate the shifting information terrain, protecting democratic processes from manipulation. Stay updated with our research on emerging threats, influence operations, and tools to empower citizens in the face of new challenges to democracy.
Interference Matters
What to Watch: ASD at GMF Experts Share Thoughts on the 2024 US Election
Interference Interrupted: The US Government’s Strides In Defending Against Foreign Threats to the 2024 Election
This year’s US election cycle was marked by increasingly brazen attempts by foreign actors to interfere and influence voters. Iran orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump and successfully accessed documents fr [...]
The Moldovan Testing Ground? What the United States Can Learn from Russian Interference in Moldova
The Kremlin is known for testing disinformation strategies in its “backyard” before applying them globally. Last week in Moldova, the presidential election and constitutional referendum on EU membership presented Russia with such an opportunity. Rus [...]
Bret Schafer Interviewed on CNN about the Evolving Information Space Around the US Election
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined CNN to discuss the evolving information space around the 2024 US election, including false, manipulated videos of alleged election irregularities which have been traced back to Russian threat actors. watch here [...]
RT’s End Around: RT’s Content Launderers Persist Despite Increased Attention and Restrictions
In May, ASD, along with our partners at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), published a report documenting roughly 400 domains that had published identical or nearly identical copies of articles original [...]
What to Watch: ASD at GMF Experts Share Thoughts on the 2024 US Election
Americans vote in this year’s consequential presidential election in an environment marked by growing threats, including the weaponization of artificial intelligence, influence campaigns run by foreign authoritarian adversaries, and false election n [...]
ASD and GMF Tech Release Report on How US Candidates Campaign Using TikTok
Two years on from the 2022 US midterm elections, TikTok continues to serve as a platform candidates use to try to reach voters. According to a new report from the Technology Program and the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund [...]