Announcements Today we launched the War in Ukraine: Military Bloggers dashboard, an interactive, open-source tool for analyzing the reach and messaging of prominent Russian military bloggers on Telegram! Check out key takeaways from the dashboard h [...]
New War in Ukraine Dashboard tracks messaging from Russia’s military bloggers on Telegram Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States today launched the War in Ukraine: Military Bloggers da [...]
Our Takes The explosion of generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, threatens to unleash a wave of uniquely deceptive disinformation ahead of the 2024 US elections. Everyone from campaigns to civil society must impose rules on the technolo [...]
Our Take Lemon8, a new app from TikTok parent ByteDance, is still relatively small in the United States, but it could grow to pose national security risks, Senior Fellow Lindsay Gorman said on CNN. The only way Russia can win the war is if the Uni [...]
Since 2020, states have introduced hundreds of laws based on false claims of widespread election fraud. Election officials—who played an integral role in carrying out a safe and secure election that year—have been quitting in large numbers due to co [...]
Our Take The widespread use of AI-generated images and videos has made it difficult not just to tell whether something is fake, but also whether something is real, which is advantageous to autocrats trying to sow doubt and discord in the informatio [...]
Announcements We hosted a half-day event on the margins of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London to help cement a stronger recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine and to showcase Ukraine's financial integrity and transparency efforts. Watch the [...]
Announcements Join us online tomorrow, June 23 for a half-day conference to help cement a stronger recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine. Learn more and register here. Our Take The fight against oligarchy and corruption in Ukraine is critical to [...]
“The key Ukrainian principle is simple and fair, namely: no ruins will be left in Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London, where world leaders and CEOs are expected to discuss the cos [...]
There remains a crisis of confidence in US elections, despite their successful administration in 2022. Many Americans harbor mistaken beliefs about the outcome of the 2020 elections and the way elections are run, and foreign and domestic bad actors [...]
Announcements Join us online or in person in London next Friday for a half-day conference to help cement a stronger recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine. Learn more and register here. Our Take The United States should turn to an often overlooke [...]
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 [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States today released Autocrats Within, an in-depth analysis of the autocratic threats facing the two most consequential national elections of 2023: Turkey and Poland. In [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Washington, D.C. – Just weeks ago, TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified that the app functions independently of the Chinese Communist Party. But a new analysis of data from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund’s Hamilton 2.0 da [...]
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 [...]
Washington, DC – During last week’s Congressional hearing, TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified that TikTok labels state-backed media accounts. A new analysis from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund shows that’s not always the [...]
At this week’s Summit for Democracy, governments are expected to address how important countering disinformation and securing access to independent media are to democracy’s survival. Efforts to build and strengthen information resilience are taking [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund and Issue One publish new report calling for key election investment and reforms Today, the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund and Issue One released a new repo [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Our Take Voters’ wide rejection of election denier candidates in the 2022 US midterms shows that voters are looking for candidates that build trust in US election processes, Head of External Affairs Rachael Dean Wilson said on Newsy. Russian info [...]
Russia Russian state media and diplomats last week tweeted 16,941 times, generating 191,154 retweets and 575,694 likes. Kremlin-affiliated accounts last week barely mentioned a Russian bomb that killed at least 22 Ukrainians and injured 50 more at a [...]
Russia Monitored Russian accounts last week tweeted 16,366 times, generating 161,117 retweets and 518,932 likes. Kremlin-affiliated accounts last week claimed that Ukraine and its “US handlers” were preparing to frame Moscow for an attack on the R [...]