Krystyna Sikora

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About Krystyna Sikora

Krystyna (Krysia) Sikora is a research assistant for the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at the German Marshall Fund, where she supports research on election integrity and information manipulation. Her writing has been published in the EU Observer, Euractiv, and the Fulcrum.

Prior to joining ASD, Krysia received an MA in Eurasian, Russian, and East European studies from Georgetown University. Her studies centered on right-wing populism, disinformation, and democratic decline in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on Poland. Krysia played professional soccer in Poland for two years and has a BA in political science and a certificate in policy journalism and media studies from Duke University.

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Our Takes Meta and other social media companies’ bans on Russian state media likely do not stop their hardcore followers from accessing their content, but hurts RT’s “ability to span platforms, to reach new audiences” that “are not actively seeking [...]

2024-09-27T10:51:31-04:00September 27, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements ASD’s Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson and Senior Fellow Bret Schafer will join World Affairs Council Pittsburgh for an in-person discussion of threats to the 2024 US presidential election and lessons in resilience from around [...]

2024-09-20T09:15:45-04:00September 19, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements ASD’s Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson and Senior Fellow Bret Schafer will join World Affairs Council Pittsburgh for an in-person discussion of threats to the 2024 US presidential election and lessons in resilience from around [...]

2024-09-12T17:24:34-04:00September 12, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements ASD’s Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson and Senior Fellow Bret Schafer will join World Affairs Council Pittsburgh for an in-person discussion of threats to the 2024 US presidential election and lessons learned from around the w [...]

2024-09-06T08:57:29-04:00September 5, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements The Securing Democracy Dispatch will take a hiatus through August. We will resume in early September! We are hiring! Applications are open for ASD at GMF’s Washington, DC-based research traineeship for Fall 2024. Apply here. Our Take [...]

2024-08-08T15:23:05-04:00August 8, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements We are hiring! Applications are open for ASD at GMF’s Washington, DC-based research traineeship for Fall 2024! Apply here. Our Takes Russia’s recent campaign of sabotage and, in some cases, violence on the European continent signal [...]

2024-08-01T17:01:50-04:00August 1, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Our Takes After the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Russia floated conspiracy theories about Ukrainian involvement, Iran amplified false narratives from the American left and right alike, but the PRC engaged in limited cov [...]

2024-08-01T15:59:18-04:00July 25, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements GMF condemns political violence and the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump last weekend. Read GMF President Heather Conley’s statement here. Our Takes The attempted assassination of Trump prompted a deluge o [...]

2024-07-18T16:55:42-04:00July 18, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements Come work with ASD! We are looking for a Program Coordinator and an Open Source Intelligence Analyst, both based in Washington, DC. Apply here! Check out GMF’s coverage of NATO’s 75th anniversary Summit and Public Forum! Find expert i [...]

2024-07-12T09:09:54-04:00July 11, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements The Securing Democracy Dispatch will take a break next week to celebrate the Fourth of July. We will resume the following week. Come work with ASD! We are looking for a Program Coordinator and an Open Source Intelligence Analyst, both [...]

2024-06-28T09:40:26-04:00June 27, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Our Takes “Elections are human-run endeavors and they are imperfect. But the goal is to catch the mistakes quickly and correct them quickly”, Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson said on FOX 5 Washington DC. The European Parliament election res [...]

2024-06-13T16:41:51-04:00June 13, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements ASD and the Cyber Collective announced a partnership to strengthen global cybersecurity and protect democracy! We aim to bring research-backed, expert-verified information to the top of everyday internet users’ algorithms. Read more h [...]

2024-06-07T11:03:16-04:00June 6, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements Today, ASD at GMF, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) released the Information Laundromat, an open-source tool to find content and metadata similarities between websites. In a new report [...]

2024-05-31T08:48:23-04:00May 30, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Hamilton 2.0 Analysis Russian diplomats and state media focused on two main narratives this week: Threats to Zelenskyy: Russian officials last week claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “no longer has the right to represent Ukraine i [...]

2024-05-23T16:01:36-04:00May 23, 2024|By and |

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Announcements ASD would like your feedback! Please fill out our survey about ASD’s work and publications. (Estimated time to complete: one minute or less) Our Takes This week’s US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing showed bipartisan concern ov [...]

2024-05-16T17:21:13-04:00May 16, 2024|By and |

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Announcements ASD would like your feedback! Please fill out our survey about ASD’s work and publications. (Estimated time to complete: one minute or less) Our Takes The recent spate of “cash-for-influence, election interference, and espionage cas [...]

2024-05-10T10:33:08-04:00May 9, 2024|By and |

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Announcements ASD would like your feedback! Please fill out our survey about ASD’s work and publications. (Estimated time to complete: one minute or less) Our Takes Russia’s online influence campaigns have seized on US divisions over the Israel-H [...]

2024-05-02T16:52:15-04:00May 2, 2024|By and |

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Announcements ASD would like your feedback! Please fill out our survey about ASD’s work and publications. (Estimated time to complete: one minute or less) ASD is hiring a Washington, DC-based, full-time program assistant! Apply here. Our Takes Th [...]

2024-04-26T09:09:53-04:00April 25, 2024|By and |

Building Resilience Against Election Influence Operations: Preparing for the European Elections in 2024 and Beyond

Executive Summary In 2024, nearly half of the world’s population is heading to the polls. One of the biggest of these contests is the 2024 European Parliament elections from June 6–9, in which 366 million voters in the union’s 27 member states wil [...]

2024-08-21T16:55:13-04:00April 23, 2024|By , , and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements GMF’s annual Brussels Forum is live today, April 18 and tomorrow, April 19! Tune in here to follow conversations on issues impacting the transatlantic community, including a panel about challenges to election administration on April 1 [...]

2024-04-18T15:26:30-04:00April 18, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements We are hiring! ASD is looking for a full-time program assistant and a Washington, DC-based research trainee for Summer 2024! Apply here. Hamilton 2.0 Analysis Russian diplomats and state media focused on two main narratives this wee [...]

2024-04-15T13:58:25-04:00April 11, 2024|By and |

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Announcements We are hiring! Applications are open for ASD at GMF’s Washington, DC-based research traineeship for Summer 2024! Apply here. Our Takes The spate of US election officials resigning increases the risk that genuine election administrat [...]

2024-04-04T15:53:58-04:00April 4, 2024|By and |

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Our Takes If hard right parties translate their momentum into success in June’s European Parliament elections, they will have a large impact on the EU’s future, from who occupies key offices to the bloc’s support for Ukraine, Senior Manager for Eur [...]

2024-03-29T09:10:45-04:00March 28, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Our Takes “Information ecosystems were under unprecedented strain … and then you throw artificial intelligence (AI) into the mix. And what you have is such a harsher threat landscape”, Senior Manager for Europe and Fellow Vassilis Ntousas said at a [...]

2024-03-21T16:29:38-04:00March 21, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements On Tuesday, March 12, Senior Fellow Lindsay Gorman will participate on a panel about elections in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, alongside Colorado Secretary of Stat [...]

2024-03-07T17:19:07-05:00March 7, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements Omelas and ASD released a new dashboard—the second in a series of dashboards dedicated to monitoring information environments ahead of key global elections in 2024—to track publicly available information about the upcoming Russian pre [...]

2024-02-29T17:00:45-05:00February 29, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements Join ASD’s David Salvo and Bret Schafer for an online event with Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to discuss increasing overlap in the information space between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia. Regist [...]

2024-02-23T09:20:15-05:00February 22, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements ASD, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, is launching two initiatives to strengthen democratic resilience worldwide: one to foster the adoption of content authenticity technologies in newsrooms to address the proliferation [...]

2024-02-15T17:07:58-05:00February 15, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Our Takes Artificial Intelligence (AI) will magnify and ease malign actors’ abilities to push false election narratives and breach electoral systems. Election workers should be equipped to counter these threats ahead of 2024. Senior Fellows Lindsay [...]

2024-02-09T10:08:23-05:00February 8, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Hamilton 2.0 Analysis Russian diplomats and state media focused on two main narratives this week:  Civil War in the United States: Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev created a stir last week with a post that asserted that the ongoing dispute [...]

2024-02-02T12:19:46-05:00February 1, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements ASD is teaming up with GMF Geostrategy for a GMF 2024 US Elections monthly digest to provide analysis of the elections, with a focus on GMF experts’ insights into threats to US elections and analysis of transatlantic policy issues. Si [...]

2024-01-25T16:30:40-05:00January 25, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements ASD is teaming up with GMF Geostrategy for a GMF 2024 US Elections newsletter! This monthly newsletter will provide regular analysis of the elections, with a focus on GMF experts’ insights into threats to the US elections and analysis [...]

2024-01-18T17:24:43-05:00January 18, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements ASD is pleased to welcome Shanthi Kalathil as a Visiting Senior Fellow. Previously the coordinator for democracy and human rights at the National Security Council, Kalathil will lead an initiative at ASD to foster networks of democrat [...]

2024-01-11T17:23:37-05:00January 11, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Our Takes With consequential elections scheduled around the globe in 2024, democracies should pay attention to Taiwan’s upcoming presidential election to learn how best to combat foreign interference and disinformation, China Technology Analyst Dyl [...]

2024-01-05T10:03:06-05:00January 4, 2024|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements Join the team! Applications are still open for a Senior Officer for AI and Democracy for ASD’s Tech and Geopolitics team. Apply here. This is the Dispatch’s final edition of 2023! We will resume our usual publishing schedule the first [...]

2023-12-15T10:10:25-05:00December 14, 2023|By and |

Securing Democracy Dispatch

Announcements We’re hiring! Applications are open for a Senior Officer for AI and Democracy for ASD’s Tech and Geopolitics team! Apply here. Our Takes “We have moved to a new era that… is about these societal level coalitions that pull in players [...]

2023-12-07T16:20:58-05:00December 7, 2023|By and |
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