A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Announcements With great pleasure, ASD and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue-US (ISD-US) are announcing their merger effective January 1, 2026. You can read more about the merger here and below. To all of ASD’s champions over the last eight yea [...]
The New York Times featured ASD's research, conducted as part of an investigation led by Factchequeado, on Russian information laundering in Mexico. Senior Fellow Bret Schafer told NYT: “This is the problem: You have the [United States] retreating f [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson to discuss how authoritarian governments have harnessed AI to supercharge the spread of false or polarizing information online to destabilize democracies. listen at wxxi The v [...]
Managing Director David Salvo discussed ways to combat foreign information manipulation and interference in a changing global landscape at the fifth annual London FIMI Forum, hosted by the EU Delegation to the United Kingdom. watch on youtube T [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joins WFAE 90.7’s Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins to discuss how news deserts and the changing nature of how Americans receive information and news has amplified the flow of false information. listen at wfae 90.7 The [...]
As details of the US administration’s position became clearer following the August 15 summit in Alaska, it became evident that—as feared—the face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump gave Russian President Vladimir Putin the advantage. Put [...]
ASD researchers Krystyna Sikora and Peter Benzoni told Factchequeado how Russian messaging differed depending on whether the Kremlin wrote in English or Spanish in response to protests in Los Angeles, California about US President Donald Trump's imm [...]
Managing Director David Salvo and Senior Fellow Bret Schafer join WFAE 90.7's Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins to discuss how North Carolina and other US states are targeted by foreign adversaries with information operations, as well as other topic [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined DW News to discuss recent negotiations around the war in Ukraine held in Saudi Arabia and what might come of them. The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
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David Salvo and Rachael Dean Wilson joined Euronews' Radio Schuman podcast to discuss the first few weeks of Donald Trump's second administration and what it spells for US foreign relations. listen here The views expressed in GMF publications an [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo was interviewed on DW News about how Russia-China ties will be impacted by the change in leadership in the United States. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the aut [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined NBC News to react to Meta's decision to change its fact-checking policy in the United States. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson spoke to Fox News about the importance of reengaging the political middle and those who have disengaged from politics in the United States, among other topics. watch here The views expressed in GMF public [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined CBS News to discuss faux bomb threats at US polling places that originated from Russian domains. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined CNN to discuss the evolving information space around the 2024 US election, including false, manipulated videos of alleged election irregularities which have been traced back to Russian threat actors. watch here [...]
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 [...]
Two years on from the 2022 US midterm elections, TikTok continues to serve as a platform candidates use to try to reach voters. According to a new report from the Technology Program and the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund [...]
Investigative Data and Research Analyst Peter Benzoni spoke to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty about a recent Russian online information campaign in the Balkans. read more here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views [...]
Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson spoke at a panel discussion at the McCain Institute about the release of a report entitled "Defending American Democracy in the Digital Age". watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and comment [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer discussed the US Department of Justice's recent indictment of two RT employees for funneling millions of dollars to a Tennessee-based media company. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are [...]
In May 2024, ASD, along with our partners at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the University of Amsterdam, published a report documenting roughly 400 domains—ranging from mirror sites and content aggregators to faux local news outlets and si [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined CNN to discuss the DOJ's recent indictment of two RT employees for financing Russian disinformation in the United States. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the au [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined FOX 8 Live to discuss the impact of AI-generated disinformation on elections and how local and state election officials can best prepare for it. read more here The views expressed in GMF publications and comment [...]
ASD's Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined CNN's Jim Sciutto to discuss foreign interference efforts in the 2024 US election, including Iran's reported hack of Trump campaign documents. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and c [...]
Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson joined CNBC to discuss US foreign adversaries' motivations for interfering in the 2024 US presidential election and the state of the race. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer spoke to CBS News about how Russian propaganda works and how Europeans and Americans can help stem its tide. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo told NTD News that despite the NATO communique's condemnation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) financing Russia's war effort in Ukraine, allies like the United States may lack the leverage to influence the PRC [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News to discuss the significance of a recently dismantled Russian influence network on X. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined FOX's LiveNOW to discuss the 75th anniversary NATO summit and the need for NATO to strengthen democratic resilience in member countries. The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views [...]
Rachael Dean Wilson with the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a former aide to Sen. John McCain is tracking the disinformation landscape. She believes AI has the potential to fuel election disinformation in ways voters cannot easily detect. "I th [...]
Peter Benzoni, an investigative data and research analyst on the information manipulation team at the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) presented the Information Laundromat. Using this tool, researchers examined content laundering practices acro [...]
“This old-fashioned, sort of low-level kind of manipulation has been perfectly capable of misleading and manipulating people for quite a long time,” said Bret Schafer, a senior fellow for media and digital disinformation for the Alliance for Securin [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined the Russian Service of the Voice of America to discuss the Ukraine Peace Summit held in Switzerland. watch here [...]
Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson joined "The Final 5" on FOX 5 Washington DC to discuss challenges to public trust in US elections as the 2024 presidential election nears. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary [...]
ASD at GMF and the Cyber Collective are excited to announce our partnership to strengthen global cybersecurity and protect democracy. This collaboration is designed to bring research-backed, expert-verified information to the top of the algorithms o [...]
“This is really the tip of the Russian propaganda iceberg,” said Bret Schafer, a co-author of the report and a senior fellow at German Marshall Fund. “It was quite evident when we were running the search results in the E.U. that if Russian propagand [...]
New Information Laundromat tool used to analyze how RT.com skirts sanctions and platform bans Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (ASD at GMF), the University of Amsterdam (U [...]
ASD Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined C-SPAN Washington Journal to discuss and answer questions about foreign interference threats to the 2024 US elections. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined "The Final 5" on FOX 5 Washington DC to discuss questions about how much longer US assistance to Ukraine is sustainable amid Russian advances. Watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and comment [...]