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Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Communications and Technology Subcommittee about how the United States can secure its communications networks from foreign adversari [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is launching two initiatives to strengthen global democratic practices, promote good governance, and support free and fair elections. The projects will [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States released “The ASD AI Election Security Handbook” as a resource for elections officials responding to unprecedented threats to election security su [...]
Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs about how the United States can outpace the PRC in emerging technologies. Below is a copy of her written testimony. I [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo and Research Analyst Nathan Kohlenberg submitted testimony to the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence about the threat of transnational repression [...]
This year’s US presidential primaries will determine who will lead the country come January 2025 amid growing autocratic threats to American democracy. Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund are monitoring and a [...]
ASD Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined C-SPAN Washington Journal to discuss and answer questions about threats to democracy in the United States and abroad in 2024. [...]
In the days leading up to Slovakia’s highly contested parliamentary election, deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence spread across social media. In one posted by the far-right Republika party, Progressive Slovakia leader Michal Šimečka appa [...]
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. [...]
Washington D.C. – Ukrainian victory will not be limited to beating Russia on the battlefield. Winning also means rebuilding from this war as a robust democracy grounded in the rule of law and ready to join Europe. Ukrainians know this. Even as gener [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New War in Ukraine Dashboard tracks messaging from Russia’s military bloggers on Telegram Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States today launched the War in Ukraine: Military Bloggers da [...]
Last month, seven leading artificial intelligence companies agreed to voluntary commitments with the White House on AI safety, security and trust. But there’s one glaring and urgent omission: a deadline. No timeline or details regarding implementat [...]
It takes two to tango, and the Spanish election offers a sharp lesson for conservatives across Europe on how partnering with the radical right can go badly wrong. Sunday’s general election in Spain was a turning point in Spanish politics — but in m [...]
In this episode of "Disinformation," ASD's Bret Schafer and Peter Benzoni discuss ASD's tools and the rise of disinformation online. [...]
Spanish voters dealt a blow to Spain’s far-right in the national elections on Sunday, July 23. Here, GMF experts provide insights into the implications for Spain and the takeaways for centrist political leaders throughout Europe who are watching clo [...]
Since 2020, states have introduced hundreds of laws based on false claims of widespread election fraud. Election officials—who played an integral role in carrying out a safe and secure election that year—have been quitting in large numbers due to co [...]
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has launched a new social media app called Lemon8. Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman joined CNN to discuss whether this new app will receive the same scrutiny that TikTok has. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, a technology expert at the German Marshall Fund, discusses on "Face the Nation" how to differentiate AI-generated images online from real ones. "Context is a really important piece of this," she noted. [...]
It has been almost a month since Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his governing party and allies were given a new electoral mandate to enlarge even further their footprint on the country’s trajectory. As the dust is now settling after a ne [...]
While corruption has undermined Russia's war effort, anti-corruption efforts have made Ukraine more resilient. The abortive rebellion by Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin against Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, has only rein [...]
The European Commission has cut the distance between words and actions in terms of turning the EU into a geopolitical actor. But time is short before much more to be done before it can reliably say it accomplished its mission, write Vassilis Ntousas [...]
World leaders, including US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, are gathered in London today to talk about rebuilding Ukraine. They have already pledged billions of dollars in aid to help rebuild the country. Josh Rudolph from the Alliance for Sec [...]
Ongoing innovation is innate to the human spirit and stops at no borders. While Americans are rightly proud of being the nation that gave the world powered flight, we owe the development of the modern monoplane design to a Romanian, Trajan Vuia, who [...]
Alex von Tunzelmann and Robin Lustig look at the day’s top stories, including the first state visit to the US by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, companies hiring refugees in Europe and why an invitation to see the mayor of Tehran led to the r [...]
“The key Ukrainian principle is simple and fair, namely: no ruins will be left in Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London, where world leaders and CEOs are expected to discuss the cos [...]
There remains a crisis of confidence in US elections, despite their successful administration in 2022. Many Americans harbor mistaken beliefs about the outcome of the 2020 elections and the way elections are run, and foreign and domestic bad actors [...]
Russian officials and diplomats have been coordinating an unusually organized and large-scale disinformation campaign to discredit reports that the nation is responsible for the June 6 collapse of the Nova Kakhovka Dam, according to a new study. Disi [...]
Most eyes are on the fighting in the Donbas as Ukraine’s counteroffensive appears to get under way. But far from the front lines, a vital discussion is taking place in Western capitals: What will it take to rebuild Ukraine when the war is finally ov [...]
On June 6, a major dam is southern Ukraine was destroyed, triggering a humanitarian and ecological crisis in the region. David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Scripps News to discuss how this impacts Ru [...]
NATO was created to protect Europe and the democratic West from a threat from Russia. Seventy years on, the mission is the same, but is the ever expanding alliance equipped for the future? Lindsay Gorman is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fun [...]
A few weeks ago, at an event focused on democratic decline in the United States, I raised the persistent threat of foreign autocratic actors. The audience reacted ambivalently. “That’s so 2016,” one attendee remarked. The conversation moved on to mo [...]
Still reeling from the long-term effects of more than a decade of economic turmoil, most Greeks headed to the polls on 21 May expecting that this election would be far less fateful when compared to previous turbulent cycles during the crisis years, [...]
If Kyiv’s international donors don’t lay out how they plan to ensure transparency in the reconstruction process, it won’t be funded on a scale worthy of the country’s sacrifices. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces gets underway, t [...]
Understanding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) interference in Canadian elections – and deterring it from happening in the future – should be an issue that unites Canadian politicians of all parties. On May 9, I testified as a witness at a commit [...]
Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should not have investigated connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election after a four year investigation. Rachael Dean Wilson, managing director of the Alliance f [...]
ASD Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies and former White House advisor Lindsay Gorman joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss the OpenAI CEO's congressional hearing, and why the EU has a leg up on the US when it comes to AI regulation. [...]
However, this rosy optimism ignores the reality that this year’s two most important elections — in the critical NATO allies of Turkey and Poland — will be administered by regimes that maintain their grip on power through similar autocratic playbooks [...]
Last Sunday, a week before the most hotly contested election in modern Turkish history, police stood by as fanatics supporting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pelted opposition politicians and their supporters with stones at a rally that had to be cu [...]