Announcements Co-director Zack Cooper and Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer will join The City Club of Cleveland to discuss foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. elections and election security during the coronavirus pandemic. Tu [...]
"A chilling new report outlines how Russia, China and other authoritarian regimes have used weaknesses in campaign finance and financial reporting laws to launch attacks on the political processes in the United States and elsewhere," Bill Theobald w [...]
Announcement Watch CFR’s Instagram story on Wednesday, 2:00pm ET/8:00pm CET for an Instagram live conversation with Director Laura Rosenberger. Our Take To successfully push back on authoritarianism, the United States needs to show that democrac [...]
Announcements In the most comprehensive global study to date of how covert foreign money is used to interfere in democracies, Malign Finance Fellow Josh Rudolph and Research Assistant Thomas Morley track over 100 cases of malign financial interfere [...]
JUST RELEASED: COVERT FOREIGN MONEY: FINANCIAL LOOPHOLES EXPLOITED BY AUTHORITARIANS TO FUND POLITICAL INTERFERENCE IN DEMOCRACIES Comprehensive new report by the Alliance for Securing Democracy identifies legal loopholes exposing U.S. elections to [...]
Foreign Policy's Amy McKinnon discusses the major points of ASD's new report, Covert Foreign Money: Financial Loopholes Exploited by Authoritarians to Fund Political Interference in Democracies. [...]
THE ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY PARTNERS WITH THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECRETARIES OF STATE TO SUPPORT #TRUSTEDINFO2020 INITIATIVE Contact: Kayla Goodson, press@securingdemocracy.org Washington, D.C.-- Ahead of the 2020 general election, the [...]
Our Take In a joint report with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer finds numerous similarities in the behavior, narratives, and specific messages promoted by a network of hundreds of thousands [...]
Our Take The United States is capable of conducting safe, secure, and auditable elections in November, especially if states receive additional funding from Congress, Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine explained in his testimony to the House Ho [...]
Our Take As countries rush to change their electoral systems to account for the coronavirus pandemic, challenges to Poland’s recent elections provide some lessons for others, Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine, Fellow and Program Manager Nad’a [...]