A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Lindsay Gorman and Bret Schafer teamed up with civic tech entrepreneur Clara Tsao and Harvard’s Dipayan Ghosh to explore national security vulnerabilities in the online information ecosystem in a series of paper [...]
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 [...]
Co-Director Zack Cooper and Oriana Skylar Mastro write that the Biden administration needs to rethink the entire nature of alliances for an era of heavy-handed economic diplomacy from Beijing. Australia's trials are not the first time Beijing has u [...]
Middle East Fellow Ariane Tabatabai joined The Skimm's "Skimm This" to discuss the recent killing of a top Iranian nuclear scientist and how that might impact the incoming Biden administration's plans. [...]
While much has been reported about the security of the 2020 election, there is one critical area many news reports are missing—the security and protection of the people carrying out the election, and that has fallen woefully short. Securing election [...]
The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist, will complicate the incoming Biden administration’s efforts to renew the nuclear deal—and could lead to escalation. Last Friday, Iran announced that an important player in its security app [...]
An Iranian scientist, who U.S. intelligence says is one of Iran's top nuclear officials, has been assassinated. Middle East Fellow Ariane Tabatabai spoke to NPR's Ari Shapiro about the news. [...]
The Biden administration will need to get both its words and actions right to rebuild trust in the USA in Southeast Asia. What awaits the Biden administration in Southeast Asia? Although the Trump administration trumpeted its efforts in Vietnam, th [...]
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. [...]
Many of America’s friends in Asia have high expectations for the incoming administration of Joe Biden. Biden has, after all, signalled that the region will be a top priority and promised to “build a united front of US allies and partners to confront [...]
The app's main draw is its hands-off content moderation approach. Experts worry that can lead to harmful false information spreads on other platforms. Parler, the social media platform marketed as a “free speech social network” with a hands-off appro [...]
After four years of “America First,” President-Elect Biden recently declared: “America is Back.” In other words, U.S. foreign policy is on the verge of change. On this episode, Ariane Tabatabai, the Middle East Fellow at GMF’s Alliance for Securing [...]
Malign Finance Fellow Josh Rudolph joined "The Power Vertical" to discuss the findings of his new report, Covert Foreign Money. They’ve granted loans to a French political party. They’ve spread around oil profits in Italy. They’ve given material s [...]
ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine discusses what, in light of 2020, we can do to make upcoming elections even more secure in an article in The Fulcrum. [...]
Fake news, disinformation and distortion seem to be everywhere. Is this the end of civilization? How much does it all matter and what can we do about it? Listen to this podcast discussion involving: Carl Miller, Research Director at DEMOS and Author [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina is out with a new report, 5G Security: The New Energy Security, in which she examines the strategic vulnerabilities that can come from European technological dependence on China. [...]
Hold the champagne: The 2020 Election Season isn't over just yet. Neither of Georgia's Senate races resulted in a victor on Election Day, sending both contests to January runoffs that will likely determine control of the U.S. Senate. And while many [...]
The unfolding saga over TikTok and WeChat will have lasting impact far beyond the availability of dance videos and lip syncs. Reporters, tech watchers, First Amendment scholars and social media influencers alike are anxiously watching each twist in [...]
Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina spoke to DW News on the state of democracy in the United States as the world awaits the outcome of the U.S. election. [...]
Election Integrity Fellow David Levine discussed the 2020 U.S. presidential election with Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology." "There is no evidence to call into question the integrity of the election, nor is there any evidence that should call in [...]
As the final high-tension hours of voting ticked away on Tuesday, nervous reporters waiting for news of foreign information warfare efforts were left like Vladimir and Estragon by the roadside, waiting for a phantom that never appeared. Instead came [...]
Election Dissection spoke with David Levine, elections integrity fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. Levine has been tracking foreign attempts to interfere with U.S. voting this year, but he also knows a lot about the mechanics of running [...]
Fact vs. Fake. Truth vs. Lies. Information vs. Disinformation. For voters trying to choose between competing parties and candidates the distinction between them would seem to be central. But is it still possible to tell which is which? In this week’ [...]
On U.S. Election Day, our social media news feeds will likely be filled with stories about how foreign actors have worked to derail the U.S. election process. Some of those stories might be based in fact. Others will be unfounded rumors. Jessica Bra [...]
Americans have heard a lot about threats to the 2020 election. But one of the greatest threats may be a loss of faith in our electoral system itself. The director of the F.B.I., Christopher Wray, told Congress in September that his greatest concern [...]
A Soviet adage suggests Westerners play chess proficiently through the opening and middlegame, only to be overtaken by a surprisingly offensive Soviet endgame. In the days ahead, Russia might stage a come-from-behind endgame attack in the aftermath [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine coauthored an article with Tammy Patrick of the Democracy Fund on how U.S. election infrastructure protects voters from intimidation in The Fulcrum. There's been growing concern about voter intimidation in th [...]
ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY RELEASES STRATEGY FOR DEMOCRACIES TO OFFSET AUTOCRATIC ADVANCES Bipartisan Task Force provides 24 recommendations across four areas of competition. Washington, D.C. – The Al [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger has been working on combating foreign interference in U.S. domestic politics since 2016, and she is the author of two recent significant articles—one in Foreign Affairs and one on Lawfare—both on the subject of foreign inf [...]
Co-Director Zack Cooper and AEI Researcher Aine Tyrrell argue that reciprocity plays into the Chinese Communist Party’s hands in three key ways. Last week, the State Department designated six media entities operating in the United States as foreign [...]
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer spoke to WLVT's about disinformation on social media ahead of the 2020 election. Last month, the FBI posted a warning on its website, stating that cybercriminals and foreign actors will use soci [...]
A little more than a year ago, China had almost no diplomatic presence on Twitter. A handful of accounts, many representing far-flung diplomatic outposts, operated without apparent coordination or direction from Beijing. Today, the work of Chinese d [...]
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell interviews former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts, current Distinguished Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Non-Resident Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democra [...]
Last week we learned Russia and Iran are interfering in the 2020 presidential election. That's concerning, but hardly surprising. It's a reminder that Americans need to be vigilant as the election approaches. And there are some common-sense actions [...]
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer spoke to WPTV about malign foreign actors' attempts to use local news outlets to spread disinformation ahead of elections. Schafer told Contact 5 one technique foreign actors use is to tag legit [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Emerging Technology Fellow Lindsay Gorman is out with a new report, A Future Internet for Democracies: Contesting China’s Dominance in 5G, 6G, and the Internet-of-Everything, in which she details the stakes of c [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger joined "In Lieu of Fun" to talk foreign election interference one week before Election Day. [...]
Geopolitics over the next several decades will be defined by competition between democracies and autocracies. This contest is already playing out across the military, economic and diplomatic domains—and in the information arena as well. As former Pr [...]
With November 3rd just around the corner, Out of Order is continuing the elections theme this week with a conversation on voting in America—making sense of this patchwork system and how it’s all working in an unprecedented year. The host seat this w [...]