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With just days to go before the U.S. presidential election, Americans are once again scrolling through news feeds full of stories about foreign operations that seek to undermine their country’s electoral process. Some of the reports raise questions [...]
During the second and final presidential debate between incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the candidates faced questions about foreign interference in the election. It was an issue four years ago as well. Earlier this week, th [...]
On Wednesday night, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe called a news conference to warn Americans that foreign adversaries were actively interfering in the U.S. elections. Ratcliffe noted that two countries, Russia and Iran, have launc [...]
Head of External Affairs Rachael Dean Wilson spoke to Spectrum News after the DNI announced Iran and Russia are attempting to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election. “It’s very easy to get sucked into this trap of which country is trying to support whi [...]
Social media's attempt to stop false information around a New York Post story on Joe Biden and his son has left them open to censorship allegations. "Content moderation didn't work here, even if if you look at it as the only go goal is to stop the s [...]
Russia has been trying to weaken the United States since the first days of the Cold War. But in that entire span of three-quarters of a century, even with the success of its spies and counter-espionage measures, it has never had a series of successe [...]
Partisanship has made it more difficult for social media platforms to react to hacked and leaked materials, Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer argues in New York Daily News. Baked into Russia’s hybrid warfare strategy is the ide [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine talked to BBC World News about election security and the upcoming presidential elections. [...]
U.S. intelligence agencies say that Russia, China and probably Iran are trying to interfere with the 2020 presidential election. A recent poll found 59 % of Americans believe foreign governments are trying to interfere. One of the strategies used to [...]
ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine discussed Microsoft's preemptive strike on the ransomware botnet TrickBot and what it means for election security in 2020 with The Fulcrum's Jeff Plungis. [...]
The media plays an essential role in every democracy; but in an election season marked with uncertainty on many different levels, the responsibility of the press corps to preserve the truth while getting the story right is even greater. Now armed wi [...]
Posting photos of a marked ballot is illegal in 27 states, including New York and New Jersey. Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine spoke to NBC New York about the legality and security of "ballot selfies." [...]
ASD Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer spoke with WFLA Tampa's Mahsa Saeidi on how to stop the spread of disinformation and misinformation during the 2020 Election season. [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine and National Vote at Home Institute CEO Amber McReynolds argue that voting by mail is safe and secure, and Americans should feel confident about the process in an op-ed for The Fulcrum's Election Dissection bl [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined "This Week in South Carolina" to discuss foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections. [...]
Middle East Fellow Ariane Tabatabai joined the New Statesman's "World Review" podcast to discuss Iran's role in its region and the world, how diplomacy with the United States is likely to proceed, and the violence breaking out in Nagorno-Karabakh. R [...]
This week, GMF's "Out of Order" hands the mic over to Josh Rudolph, the Malign Finance fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy and the author of the new report, Covert Foreign Money. Josh is joined by Luke Harding, best-selling author and seni [...]
Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph discusses how the rise of foreign funding distorts politics in the West, drawing on our recently released paper Covert Foreign Money: Financial Loopholes Exploited by Authoritarians to Fund Political Interferen [...]
JUST RELEASED: IRAN’S AUTHORITARIAN PLAYBOOK New report by the Alliance for Securing Democracy lays out Iran’s playbook for interfering in the United States and other democracies. Contact: Kayla Goodson, [email protected] Washington, D.C.– [...]
Josh Rudolph appeared on the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University's The Europe Desk podcast to discuss malign finance in politics. [...]
Clint Watts joined the Wilson Center's Nina Jankowicz to discuss the aims of Russian disinformation in the 2020 Election on MSNBC's Live with Ali Velshi. [...]
ASD Non-Resident Fellow Clint Watts co-authored a piece on deepfakes and their impact on American democracy with Tim Hwang of the University of Texas at Austin in the Washington Post. [...]
ASD Non-Resident Fellow Clint Watts joined Michael Waldman and Janai Nelson in a panel discussion on voting access and disinformation on NBC's Meet the Press. [...]
ASD Junior Fellow Jennifer Gurev and Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine discuss election integrity during the threat of coronavirus, and explore examples like the elections in Poland and the cyber attacks in North Macedonia. [...]
Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph appeared on C-SPAN to discuss malign finance and its role in foreign interference. Related reading: Covert Foreign Money by Josh Rudolph and Thomas Morley [...]
Laura Rosenberger went on KERA "Think" to discuss Russian and Chinese interference and Americans' confidence in the 2020 election. [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger sat down with Gabrielle Sierra of the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss efforts the United States has taken since 2016 to secure the integrity of our political system on CFR's Why It Matters Podcast. [...]
"A chilling new report outlines how Russia, China and other authoritarian regimes have used weaknesses in campaign finance and financial reporting laws to launch attacks on the political processes in the United States and elsewhere," Bill Theobald w [...]
ASD Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer and Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine authored a piece on the intersection of disinformation and safe voting during the coronavirus pandemic as part of the National Urban League's annual [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger explains the need to fortify U.S. democracy to offer an alternative to authoritarianism being spread by Russia and the People's Republic of China in The Dallas Morning News. As anti-racism protests erupted across the co [...]
JUST RELEASED: COVERT FOREIGN MONEY: FINANCIAL LOOPHOLES EXPLOITED BY AUTHORITARIANS TO FUND POLITICAL INTERFERENCE IN DEMOCRACIES Comprehensive new report by the Alliance for Securing Democracy identifies legal loopholes exposing U.S. elections to [...]
Foreign Policy's Amy McKinnon discusses the major points of ASD's new report, Covert Foreign Money: Financial Loopholes Exploited by Authoritarians to Fund Political Interference in Democracies. [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joined Stanford University’s Jacob Helberg to discuss digital interference, misinformation, and data privacy within the lens of geopolitics on the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' "Deep Dish Podcast." [...]
THE ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY PARTNERS WITH THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECRETARIES OF STATE TO SUPPORT #TRUSTEDINFO2020 INITIATIVE Contact: Kayla Goodson, [email protected] Washington, D.C.-- Ahead of the 2020 general election, the [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger appeared on the "Diplomates Podcast" to discuss the escalating threat of foreign interference, whether social media giants are doing enough to prevent misinformation, if Tiktok should be banned, what democracies must do to [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined GovExec's daily podcast to discuss the security of the election, mail-in voting, and the coronavirus. The 2020 election cycle was expected to dominate this year, but it has been moved aside as the corona [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger joined CNN's "GPS" to break down how Russian and Chinese disinformation aims to undermine democracy and touts authoritarianism. [...]
To counter authoritarian information manipulation and control, the United States needs to support free expression and harness innovation through organizations like the Open Tech Fund, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman and Karen Kornbluh, d [...]
The hijack of several high-profile Twitter feeds raises concern:could America's adversaries crash markets, ruin elections, or start a war with fake tweets? Director Laura Rosenberger discussed CNN to discuss these concerns. [...]
Restart, a fringe Iranian dissident group, shows how conspiracy spreads—and what that means for U.S. politics, Middle East Fellow Ariane Tabatai writes in Foreign Policy. QAnon entered the mainstream U.S. political lingo in 2017, when its followers [...]