The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) detailed charges against Iranian operatives involved in the plot to assassinate Donald Trump during the recent presidential campaign should dispel any skepticism about US national security threats emanating from [...]
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 [...]
Executive Summary Combating foreign interference in democracies, once a fringe policy issue on both sides of the Atlantic, has become one of the key policy and societal challenges of our time. It was not long ago when this set of issues would be b [...]
ASD's Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined CNN's Jim Sciutto to discuss foreign interference efforts in the 2024 US election, including Iran's reported hack of Trump campaign documents. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and c [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo told NTD News that despite the NATO communique's condemnation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) financing Russia's war effort in Ukraine, allies like the United States may lack the leverage to influence the PRC [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined FOX's LiveNOW to discuss the 75th anniversary NATO summit and the need for NATO to strengthen democratic resilience in member countries. The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo makes the case for NATO to establish a Center for Democratic Resilience to assist member countries. read more here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined the Russian Service of the Voice of America to discuss the Ukraine Peace Summit held in Switzerland. watch here [...]
ASD Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined C-SPAN Washington Journal to discuss and answer questions about foreign interference threats to the 2024 US elections. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined "The Final 5" on FOX 5 Washington DC to discuss questions about how much longer US assistance to Ukraine is sustainable amid Russian advances. Watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and comment [...]
Despite a lower profile in the national debate, the tools, tactics, motivations, and actors associated with foreign interference in US elections have evolved significantly since Russia’s “sweeping and systematic” 2016 operation. The Cybersecurity an [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined the Center for a New American Security's Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend, alongside the International Republican Institute's Brady Hills, for an episode of the Brussels Sprouts podcast to discuss Russia [...]
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 10:00 - 11:00am ET 1600 - 1700 CET  In the two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Russia’s and the People’s Republic of China’s use of disinformation has increased along with Moscow and Beijin [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo discusses the role of foreign interference in Russia's foreign policy strategy at an event co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council, Center for European Policy Analysis, the McCain Institute, the German Marshall Fund, th [...]
While the news cycle is still abuzz with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, flying under the radar are new details about Russian intelligence’s role in cultivating ties with political parties in Euro [...]
False narratives, new technologies, and the potential for political violence are intensifying an already fraught election cycle. Read more here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo and Research Analyst Nathan Kohlenberg submitted testimony to the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence about the threat of transnational repression [...]
This year’s US presidential primaries will determine who will lead the country come January 2025 amid growing autocratic threats to American democracy. Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund are monitoring and a [...]
ASD Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined C-SPAN Washington Journal to discuss and answer questions about threats to democracy in the United States and abroad in 2024. [...]
Democratic backsliding has been a defining feature of modern politics and the transatlantic space has not been immune to this trend. The subversive effect of autocratic efforts to undermine democracy has concerned leaders across Europe and the Unite [...]
“Elections have consequences” the saying goes, often to justify a break with a previous administration. Along Europe’s Eastern flank, where illiberalism is on the rise and support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression is wavering, the resul [...]
On June 6, a major dam is southern Ukraine was destroyed, triggering a humanitarian and ecological crisis in the region. David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Scripps News to discuss how this impacts Ru [...]
Which elements of Putin’s playbook do we see used time and time again in different countries in Europe and Eurasia? What signs should we have seen in Ukraine from 2015 to 2022? And which of these can help inform civil society resilience strategies i [...]
Understanding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) interference in Canadian elections – and deterring it from happening in the future – should be an issue that unites Canadian politicians of all parties. On May 9, I testified as a witness at a commit [...]
Managing Director David Salvo testified before Canadian Parliament's Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs about ASD at GMF's work with Microsoft and the Government of Canada on countering foreign election interference. Below is a copy o [...]
David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined LiveNOW on FOX on Friday, March 31, to discuss the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Even Gershkovich in Russi [...]
Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Biden's Meeting With the Bucharest 9 Who Expressed Unanimous Solidarity With Ukraine In the short term, the war should be seen as a Ukrainian victory and a Russian blunder, but Kyiv will need continued Western [...]
David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined Scripps News on Sunday, February 5, 2023 to discuss the latest updates on Russia’s war in Ukraine. [...]
At the start of the new year, we asked our experts to each put forth one recommendation that would strengthen democracy during a period of declining trust, emboldened autocrats, and war. Their answers touch on a variety of issues—from the war in Ukr [...]
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined LiveNOW from FOX on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. He discussed why Russia did not include Paul Whelan in the Brittney G [...]
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Newsy to discuss the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced to serve a nine year sentence in a Russian penal colony. Griner returned to the Uni [...]
Days after an errant Ukrainian missile tragically killed two civilians in Poland, Russian state-sponsored media began reporting on a strange conspiracy theory—that Poland wants to annex three counties in western Ukraine. ASD at GMF’s Yandex Dashboar [...]
While Russian information operators in government and state-sponsored media presented a relatively united front at the onset of the renewed invasion of Ukraine, setbacks during the war have caused significant divergences in messaging. Ukraine’s succ [...]
Despite fears of political violence and deepening societal divisions, the United States appears to have avoided the worst-case scenarios in the lead-up to and immediately following the midterm elections. Election officials and local law enforcement [...]
Tomorrow’s midterm elections will be a benchmark for the state of American democracy. As early voting surges, people around the country (and the world) are watching to see what happens in what is perhaps the most important midterm election in recent [...]
Russia has blamed Ukrainian intelligence for the October 8 blast that partially collapsed the Kerch Bridge that connects Crimea to the Russian mainland. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it a “terrorist attack” and promised swift reprisals. Tr [...]
Yesterday, the Biden administration released its National Security Strategy, which focuses on the competition between democracy and autocracy, lays out threats coming from Russia and China, and notes that the US must both strengthen democracy at hom [...]
Over the past few days, the Ukrainian military launched a successful counteroffensive to regain control of the city of Izium and other territory in the northwestern Kharkiv region from Russian occupying forces. The Alliance for Securing Democracy ra [...]
A Russian court sentenced American basketball player Brittney Griner to 9 years in prison last week. David Salvo, deputy director at GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, joined CNN to discuss her guilty verdict and the potential for a US-Russia pr [...]
David Salvo talked about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s remarks at the 2022 CPAC conference. [...]