This year’s US election cycle was marked by increasingly brazen attempts by foreign actors to interfere and influence voters. Iran orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump and successfully accessed documents fr [...]
Hamilton 2.0 Analysis Russian diplomats and state media focused on two main narratives this week: Nuclear Threat: Russian state media escalated its nuclear warmongering, following several public statements from government officials and national sec [...]
Our Takes Leading up to Election Day, Russian influence campaigns shifted from targeting candidates or policies to eroding Americans’ “trust of the actual administration” of the elections, recognizing confidence around the process as a “real fault [...]
Announcements From potential false narratives that erode faith in US election integrity to the role of the US intelligence community to the possible memes that could shape online discussion, ASD at GMF experts share what they are watching closely a [...]
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 [...]
Influencers and content creators play a critical role in today’s information environment as opinion makers and trusted voices. As a result, influencers and their online communities have become targets for malign actors seeking to undermine confidenc [...]
The decentralized nature of election administration in the United States means that every state—and even election jurisdiction—has its own rules for voting and ballot counting. In 2020, variances in election procedures were misconstrued, and in some [...]
Announcements ASD and the McCain Institute held an event last Thursday about artificial intelligence (AI) and elections last week in Phoenix, featuring remarks from Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, an [...]
Announcements ASD is going to Phoenix, Arizona! ASD and the McCain Institute will hold a conversation about artificial intelligence’s impact on the 2024 US elections, featuring Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Maricopa County Supervisor [...]
Announcements ASD is going to Phoenix, Arizona! ASD and the McCain Institute will hold a conversation about artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on the 2024 US elections, featuring Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Maricopa County Super [...]
Announcements ASD is going to Phoenix, Arizona! ASD and the McCain Institute will hold a conversation about artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on the 2024 US elections, featuring Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Maricopa County Super [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On September 4, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) seized 32 website domains connected to Russia’s “Doppelganger” network and charged two Russian state media employees with funneling almost $10 million to a Tennessee-based online content creat [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Introduction In the days after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a torrent of false and misleading information about the attack flooded social media. While the majority of these claims see [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]