The infodemic that accompanied the spread of the coronavirus looms large, complicating efforts to contain the virus. Civil society, tech companies, media organizations, and governments must tackle it with the same deliberateness that they bring to c [...]
ASD Program Manager and Fellow Naďa Kovalčíková spoke to Euronews ahead of Russian President Putin’s annual address to the nation. She discussed Russia’s destabilizing efforts to advance its strategic interests, Russia’s tense diplomatic relations w [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined the Atlantic Forum's Spring Conference for a panel entitled "An Alliance Bound to Lead: Converging Towards 2030." Kovalčíková, Benedetta Berti, Professor Sven Biscop, and moderator Shary Mitidiery [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková spoke to the Hungarian weekly 168 Ora about U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's talks with NATO leaders and the joint EU-U.S. approach to Russia and China. Below is an English translation of the inte [...]
In January, less than two weeks before Portugal’s presidential election was scheduled, a new wave of the coronavirus threatened to overwhelm hospitals and led the Portuguese government to put the country back under lockdown. But unlike other countri [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined a virtual panel on the topic of “Future of Digital Platforms: Improving transparency of political advertising,” organized by the GLOBSEC-led Alliance for Healthy Infosphere, to discuss the perspect [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined the Geremka Foundation to discuss information manipulation in Europe and possible policy measures to better address it, with a focus on EU, Poland and Western Balkans. Disinformation is currently [...]
Just as the other EU countries, the Visegrad states are endangered by the amplification of manipulated information, and the coronavirus pandemic has only contributed to the problem. Combatting disinformation is a whole society effort that requires a [...]
With the advent of COVID-19 vaccines in Europe, there is hope for an end to the pandemic. But vaccination campaigns have come under fire by the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories such as QAnon and conspiracy videos like Plandemic, which erode trus [...]
Russia and China, as well as Iran to a certain extent, have used the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to interfere into democratic discourse and to present themselves as internationally responsible actors, while at the same time undermining de [...]
COVID-19 has profoundly impacted Europe in the past months. Battling the multiple waves of this pandemic, all EU member states have faced many challenges. Simultaneously, the EU has had to grapple with long-standing trends in the world—both those th [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined Ilana Bet-El, one of the founders of WIIS Brussels & former UN official, and Lieutenant General Frances Allen, military representative of Canada to the NATO Military Committee, to discuss women [...]
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 European People's Party podcast to discuss lessons learned from the Covid-19 infodemic, authoritarian countries’ effort to undermine democracies, the role of good and bad communication strategi [...]
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. Read an article summary of the event 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. [...]