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 [...]
Days before New Hampshire’s presidential primary, up to 25,000 Granite State voters received a mysterious call from “President Joe Biden.” He urged Democrats not to vote in the primary because it “only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Announcements We’re hiring for three positions! Applications are open for a Senior Officer for AI and Democracy for ASD’s Tech and Geopolitics team, a communications coordinator, and a research trainee for Spring 2024! Apply here. Our Takes In th [...]
Since coming to power in 2015, Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party has eroded media freedom and pluralism, taking over public media and hindering independent outlets. While PiS’s control of the information environment via television, radio, and pri [...]
Announcements The Securing Democracy Dispatch will take a break next week to celebrate Thanksgiving! We will resume the following week. We’re hiring! Applications are open for ASD at GMF’s Washington, DC-based research traineeship for Spring 2024! [...]
Announcements Join GMF and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies on Wednesday, November 15 for a discussion on the transatlantic alliance amid political uncertainty in the United States and Russian aggression, featuring ASD Co-Managing Di [...]
Announcements ASD’s Hamilton 2.0 dashboard has been updated! The interactive tool now includes data from Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media and information channels on Telegram, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Explore the dashboard here. [...]
Our Takes Warsaw’s probable new government will face challenges reinforcing Polish democracy. But its recent electoral victory may pave a path for Poland’s return to liberal democratic norms and realignment with EU standards, Head of Europe Vassili [...]
Poland’s recent election results mark a likely return of liberal democratic norms in the country and more constructive cooperation with the EU, however, not without challenges along the way, write Vassilis Ntousas and Krystyna Sikora. [...]
Our Takes Russia, China, and other authoritarian regimes weaponize democracies’ free information ecosystems to undermine support for democracy. The United States should leverage its advantages to fight back in the information space through public d [...]
Our Takes Ukrainian victory will not be limited to the battlefield. It will also be determined by how the country rebuilds with help from both government officials and civil society alike. Senior Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph and partners [...]
Our Takes Established democracies have clung to outdated practices as backsliding and cultural changes have accelerated. Some democracies, however, have adopted innovative reforms that should serve as a model for their counterparts, GMF’s Senior Vi [...]
Our Takes The weaponization of genuine election administration mistakes fueled Texas’ takeover of Harris County’s elections. It is not the only place where simple errors such as long lines and insufficient numbers of ballots are being used to cast [...]
Our Takes Poland’s ruling party has eroded the country’s democracy for almost a decade. The OSCE should send a full-scale election observation to monitor challenges on election day this fall and signal its commitment to fighting the increasing thre [...]
Poland faces a barrage of internal threats to its 15 October parliamentary elections. As a result, the Organization for Security and Cooperation and Europe (OSCE) should re-consider its call for a limited election observation mission (LEOM), and [...]
Our Takes Although it may temporarily disrupt the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s possible death will not stop Russia’s security services from continuing malign influence operations around the world, Managing Director David Salvo told the Washing [...]
Announcements ICYMI: ASD 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! Read our key takeaways from the dashboard [...]
Earlier this month, Harris County sued the State of Texas to temporarily block a law, known as Senate Bill 1750, that would eliminate the Harris County elections administrator position effective September 1st. Harris County really messed up its ad [...]
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 [...]
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 Campaigns have started to use images generated by artificial intelligence alongside authentic images, making it difficult for citizens to discern which are real and which are fake, Senior Fellow Lindsay Gorman demonstrated in newly release [...]
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 [...]
David Levine and Krystyna Sikora discuss findings from their recent paper "Countering the Weaponization of Election Administration Mistakes" at the Electoral Integrity Project's third annual virtual conference. Watch their panel at 1:12:31. [...]
Introduction When people perform tasks in a complex work environment, mistakes are bound to happen. Election systems are no exception. Although the 2020 presidential and 2022 midterm elections in the United States were free, fair, and well-adminis [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]