Our Take There's never been a more important time for democracies to get together and defend themselves against the rise of autocracy that is being led by Russia and China, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman said on Channel 4 Ne [...]
Announcements ICYMI, ASD hosted a panel at GMF’s Brussels Forum on the US 2024 elections. Watch the panel with ASD Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson, pollster Frank Luntz, Deutsche Welle Washington bureau chief Ines Pohl, and MSNBC host Ali Vel [...]
Our Take International donors can take five steps to ensure accountability and transparency in Ukrainian reconstruction, Senior Fellow Josh Rudolph and Amb. Norm Eisen write in the new GMF publication Toward a Marshall Plan for Ukraine. Learn more [...]
Our Take Politics may dominate discussions of Special Counsel John Durham’s recent report, but the real takeaway is that foreign interference in US democracy remains a serious threat, Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson said on Fox. The US gover [...]
Our Take China and other authoritarian regimes are attempting to undermine Canadians’ confidence in democratic governance and the integrity of Canadian elections, Managing Director David Salvo said in testimony to the Canadian Parliament. The viol [...]
Our Take Instead of pursuing a platform-by-platform approach to social media regulation, as many governments have with TikTok, democracies should work together to develop a comprehensive framework for addressing the threats posed by authoritarian i [...]
Announcements ICYMI, we hosted an event with IFES on the autocratic threats facing Turkey and Poland’s elections with Josh Rudolph, Dr. Cassandra Emmons, and Dr. Lisel Hintz. Watch the recording here. Our Take Domestic corruption is the greatest [...]
Overview On April 13, the FBI arrested Jack Teixeira for his alleged involvement in leaking hundreds of classified documents. Teixeira, a member of the Air National Guard, reportedly shared the US intelligence assessments with his friends over the c [...]
Announcements Join ASD at GMF and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems on Thursday, April 27 for a discussion on how domestic corruption could impact the freedom of this year’s elections in Turkey and Poland. Register here! Applicatio [...]
Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Navy Vet Behind Pro-Putin Site that Doctored and Spread Documents Stolen by a National Guard Airman We look into the role of a recent member of the US Navy, Sarah Bils, who runs a pro-Putin social media site D [...]
Announcements Applications for our DC-based summer internships are open! Apply for the communications internship here and the research internship here. Our Take Twitter’s decision to label NPR as state media simultaneously undermined the credibil [...]
On April 4, Twitter placed a state-affiliated media label on NPR’s account. The label is meant to provide users with context when they see a media account that is under a state’s editorial control, like Russia’s RT and China’s People’s Daily that la [...]
Announcements Applications for our DC-based summer internships are open! Apply for the communications internship here and the research internship here. Our Take Chinese diplomats and state media have mounted a sizable influence campaign in defens [...]
Announcements Our team is growing! We’re looking for a China technology analyst and a communications coordinator to join our team in Washington, DC. Apply today! Just launched! The Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, in partnership with the Gov [...]
A year ago, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, TikTok started labeling accounts operated by Russian state propaganda agencies as a way to tell users they were being exposed to Kremlin disinformation. An analysis a year later shows the policy ha [...]
Overview TikTok has been central to the world’s understanding of Russia’s war in Ukraine. It was particularly valuable in the conflict’s early days when people were desperate for news and able to find real-time updates about military maneuvers and o [...]
Announcements Our team is growing! We’re looking for a China technology analyst and a communications coordinator to join our team in Washington, DC, and a program assistant to join our team in Brussels. Apply today! Our Take Chinese diplomats and [...]
Announcements Our team is growing! We’re looking for a China technology analyst and a communications coordinator to join our team in Washington, DC, and a program assistant to join our team in Brussels. Apply today! Our Take Russia is trying to u [...]
Announcements Our team is growing! We’re looking for a China technology analyst and a communications coordinator to join our team in Washington, DC, and a program assistant to join our team in Brussels. Apply today! Our Take Six RT en Español-bac [...]
Overview YouTube was essential to RT’s early success, helping the Russian propaganda network expand its audience across the globe. YouTube’s decision to ban Russian state media channels after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine thus marked a sig [...]
Our Take Russia's disinformation strategy has moved from trying to justify its war in Ukraine to trying to convince the West that supporting Ukraine is too costly, Joseph Bodnar, Bret Schafer, and Etienne Soula find in A Year of Disinformation: Rus [...]
Introduction Prior to the war in Ukraine, Russia was perceived to be an unrivaled power in the information domain, and its ability to conduct sophisticated information operations was considered a distinct strategic advantage in the event of a war. B [...]
Our Take In the short term, the war should be seen as a Ukrainian victory and a Russian blunder, but Kyiv will need continued Western support to defend itself, Managing Director David Salvo said on Background Briefing. Despite China’s assertions th [...]
Our Take The war in Ukraine is forcing Georgia to choose between Western democracies and Russia, and the country seems to be leaning toward Russia, Senior Vice President for Democracy Laura Thornton writes for GMF. Russian state media outlets are [...]
Our Take The significance of the Chinese spy balloon incident seems to have taken Chinese authorities by surprise, Research Analyst Etienne Soula told the Washington Post. Russian state media and diplomatic accounts monitored on Hamilton 2.0 mentio [...]
Our Take Proposals to update voters on the status of their mail ballots would help boost voter confidence and increase trust in electoral processes, Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine explained in a Tweet thread. The decision by Japan and the [...]
Our Take China’s proposal that the UN should criminalize the “dissemination of false information” is another example of how Beijing is trying to shape global regulations on digital expression to reflect its own authoritarian model, China Affairs An [...]
Our Take China is actively looking to attract engineers and technologists from around the world with incentives, such as unrivaled salaries and subsidized housing, to build a self-sufficient semiconductor industry, Senior Fellow for Emerging Techno [...]
Hamilton 2.0 is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrative [...]
Our Take 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 [...]
Hamilton 2.0 is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]
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 [...]
Hamilton 2.0 is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrative [...]
Announcement The Securing Democracy Dispatch team is taking a break for the holidays. We’ll be back in your inbox in the new year! Our Take Reforming the Electoral Count Act remains critical to ensuring free and fair presidential elections, Elect [...]
Hamilton 2.0 is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]
Our Take Days after an errant Ukrainian missile tragically killed two civilians in Poland, Russian state-sponsored media began falsely reporting that Poland wants to annex three counties in western Ukraine, Deputy Director David Salvo finds in his [...]
Hamilton 2.0 is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]
Hamilton 2.0 is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]
This report highlights and analyzes key trends and takeaways from data collected by the Hamilton 2.0 dashboard during the previous month. Unlike ASD’s weekly Hamilton reports, which analyze the main topics and themes promoted by monitored Russian an [...]
Hamilton 2.0 is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]