Program Manager and Fellow Nad'a Kovalčíková spoke on an Atlantic Forum panel on building a transatlantic approach to China, which was made all the more timely by Eurostat's data revealing that China surpassed the United States as the EU's main trad [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights for an interview as part of their “AI and Covid-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative” series in partnership with the Organization for Security a [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights for an interview as part of their "AI and Covid-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" series in partnership with the Organization for Security a [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková spoke to RTVS on the occasion of the Vice President European Commissioner Věra Jourová’s virtual visit to Slovakia. She commented on the Commission’s European Democracy Action Plan, other recent efforts t [...]
This was originally published on GMF's blog. It was written by Rachel Tausendfreund based on contributions from Kristine Berzina, Jessica Brandt, Peter Chase, Sam DuPont, Lindsay Gorman, Jacob Kierkegaard, Karen Kornbluh, Nad’a Kovalčíková, Ian Less [...]
A complex transatlantic alliance of 30 countries, NATO has not been immune to the impacts of the pandemic. From day-to-day operations to bigger picture strategic thinking, the Alliance has had to adapt on many levels. Now as NATO wraps up this extra [...]
As governments and citizens around the world have struggled with the novel coronavirus, the information space has turned into a battleground. Authoritarian countries, including Russia, China and Iran, have spread disinformation on the causes of and [...]
DROG interviewed Fellow and Program Manager Nad'a Kovalčíková about China's role in the coronavirus infodemic as part of its crash course on coronavirus disinformation. [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined a number of experts in a panel discussion on Russian disinformation during the coronavirus epidemic and beyond. An accompanying article can be found here. [...]
Summary As the coronavirus pandemic has spread around the world, authoritarian actors have engaged in robust information-manipulation campaigns. China—where the virus originated and spread due to the government’s initial cover up and mismanagement [...]
In May, just days before the Polish presidential election was scheduled, the coronavirus pandemic and a government-ordered lockdown threw preparations for the election into disarray. The conservative ruling party and its opponents could not agree on [...]
Fellow and Program Manager Nad’a Kovalčíková joined Globsec's For Chat's Sake series to discuss new challenges and old pitfalls facing the European (dis)information sphere. [...]
Fellow and Program Manager Nad’a Kovalčíková was interviewed on Women in International Security's new podcast, "WIIS Brussels Voices," about NATO's approach toward China. Nad’a Kovalčíková and RAND's Gabrielle Tarini discussed their new policy pap [...]
Fellow and Program Manager Nad'a Kovalčíková was interviewed on Women in International Security's new podcast on the evolution of NATO in the digital age. [...]
In an op-ed for EUobserver, Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman, and Fellow and Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova argue that TikTok's membership in the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation risks prematurely [...]
Euractiv asked key representatives and security sector experts to answer the question, "How will transatlantic relations change in the near future?" Below is an English translation of Fellow and Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova's response. NATO’s [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined Jorge Tuñón of University Carlos III of Madrid and Emma Briant of Bard College to discuss disinformation in Europe after the Coronavirus "infodemic" on El País’ Agenda Pública and OpenEUDebate's Eu [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková appeared on Slovakia's RTVS Television to discuss the press conference held with EEAS HRVP Josep Borrell and Vice-President of the European Commission Věra Jourová on their Joint Communication to tackle C [...]
ASD Fellow and Program Manager Dr. Nad'a Kovalcikova moderated a panel discussion with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to discuss the launching of #NATO2030 and the future of the alliance in an increasingly competitive world. [...]
Fellow and Program Manager Nad’a Kovalčíková joined the students at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin to discuss disinformation as a security threat. [...]
Fellow and Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova joined Globsec for a webinar discussion entitled "COVID-19 Infodemic: Push and Pull Factors." As the coronavirus pandemic starts to retreat and countries are starting to open their economies, false stori [...]
Disinformation is on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic. The EU is fighting back, and tech companies are clamping down. But will moves to censor content just fuel the conspiratorial fire? “Global health crises are one of the common examples w [...]
Naja Bentzen, an analyst at European Parliamentary Research Service, and Sophie in't Veld, member of the European Parliament and chair of the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group, joined ASD Director Laura Rosenberger for a [...]
Fellow and Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova joined the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for a discussion on European responses to the coronavirus pandemic. The discussion focused on national responses to COVID-19 pandemic and challenges the crisis has [...]
[Excerpted from the article] Nad’a Kovalcikova (Program Manager, Alliance for Securing Democracy – Brussels) The Harvard Gazette: Battling the ‘pandemic of misinformation’ Crises are times of uncertainty, insecurity, and confusion which can get expl [...]
ASD Program Manager and Fellow Nad'a Kovalcikova and RAND Corporation Policy Analyst Gabrielle Tarini argue that NATO needs to develop a comprehensive political, economic, and security strategy to deal with China’s growing global power in a Women i [...]
Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova joined an Europe's Day webinar panel hosted by the Alliance4Europe entitled "True or false? How disinformation divides, and what can bring us together." The panel was part of the Citizens Take Over Europe program. [...]
Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova spoke to Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad about China's disinformation efforts in Europe during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as reports that an EEAS report on this disinformation was toned down under pre [...]
Malign actors have been “rewriting the present” & entering the EU’s national public spheres to shape public opinion during the coronavirus pandemic. Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova argues that Europe needs to build a transnational, interoperab [...]
Both Russia and increasingly also China have been amplifying divisive narratives about EU and NATO member states, and transatlantic allies, during the coronavirus pandemic, Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova said on this European Liberal Forum webina [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková gave a talk on protecting democracy in the digital age at the Ralf Dahrendorf Roundtable in Lisbon. [...]
ASD Program Manager Nad’a Kovalčíková discussed accountability in journalism and social media in a panel at the Hague Summit for Accountability in the Digital Age. [...]
Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova discusses the importance of protecting election infrastructure year-around, and not just in the lead-up to elections in Minsait. [...]
Executive Summary In recent years, European democracy has been shaken by internal and external events. European nations and institutions are confronting numerous challenges like migration, nationalist extremism, and discontent with the political s [...]
Below is a translation of ASD Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova's interview in German with Bild. Kovalcikova discussed Russian disinformation in Europe ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections. The title of the interview is "So mischt Putin b [...]
Disinformation as well as information manipulation and weaponization exploit internal fragmentations to amplify divisions and create chaos in democratic societies, Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova argues in the December 2018 issue of the Italian ma [...]