A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Russia has a history of hacking information and leaking it to affect U.S. candidates, Head of Research and Policy Jessica Brandt told Public Radio International. But in 2020, she is worried about the possibility that Russia could manipulate hacked m [...]
The Chinese Communist Party tries to undermine Taiwan's democratic government and bend politics to its will through online and offline interference campaigns, China Analyst Matt Schrader explains in Protego Press. [...]
The transition to 5G in 2020 may mark the point when Beijing's interests diverge irreconcilably from those of the United States, European Union, and their democratic peers, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman argues in The Atlantic. [...]
Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer joined David Rabin on WPFW - Pacifica to discuss how Russia has interfered in African American activist movements and how Russia will continue to try to increase polarization throughout the U.S. ahead of [...]
Russia and China are trying to undermine Europe's democratic norms, weaken European institutions, and capitalize on rifts in the U.S.-Europe relationship, Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt argues with Torrey Taussig in The Washington Quarte [...]
One of the most critical election security measures is voter-verifiable paper backups, which help to increase voter confidence and ensure that no foreign actor penetrates election systems, Fellow for Elections Integrity David Levine wrote in the Fay [...]
We shouldn't just be worried about foreign interference in 2016 or 2020, Deputy Director David Salvo told KJZZ Phoenix. "This is an ongoing, long-term threat to destabilize our democratic institutions." [...]
Whether NATO comes together or falls apart over 5G will be a test of how it will handle China’s rise, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman argues in Defense One. [...]
The relationship between NATO's allies is in a different place than it was before, but we should not be concerned with the United States pulling away from the alliance, Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina explained on Al Jazeera. [...]
Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina talks to Euronews about the three big personalities to watch at the NATO Summit in London. [...]
When authentic domestic voices pick up Moscow’s narratives and spread them across the information space, they hand the Kremlin a victory, Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt argues in The Hill. [...]
Russian influence campaigns that falsely accuse Ukraine of interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election have successfully furthered Russia's yearslong geopolitical battle against its largest European neighbor, Head of Research and Policy Jess [...]
The joint position paper published by the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands and Spain on November 8 is likely to pave the way for strong European Union legislation, ASD's Josh Kirschenbaum writes with Nicolas Veron [...]
Transatlantic sanctions from the United States and Europe put real pressure on Russia to curb its aggression. American political leaders should urge Europe to refrain from lifting economic sanctions on Russia at this point in time and should signal [...]
Success in countering illicit financial activity will entail a change in mentality, better information sharing, and closer coordination within governments and across borders, Senior Fellow Joshua Kirschenbaum asserted in a brief for Frivarld, the St [...]
The Russian government uses information operations to try to control the narrative on many issues around the world. Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer says that overt information — news spread to the world from state-run outlets like Sputn [...]
Common transatlantic solutions can help counter disinformation campaigns in France and Germany’s changing media ecosystems, Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer and Research Assistant Etienne Soula argue in an article co-written with Institu [...]
Deputy Director David Salvo and Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer explain that foreign interference is a local issue, and local officials, community leaders, and citizens must come together to solve it. [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine argues that the absence of leadership on the Election Assistance Commission just months before the first 2020 primaries could undermine some of the good work the agency has done since 2016. He outlines severa [...]
Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman talked to Dharma Political Risk and Strategy about the geopolitical risks of 5G implementation and the link between 5G, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technological issues. [...]
Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph discussed the issue of party financing from foreign resources on The Center for International Enterprise's podcast, Democracy that Delivers. [...]
Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt argues that there is enough bipartisan support in Congress to address foreign interference in five key policy domains, which will have a significant impact on the security of our democracy. [...]
China Analyst Matt Schrader discusses China's influence campaigns and the potential for Chinese interference in the 2020 United States elections on Deutsche Welle. [...]
Bret Schafer talks online political disinformation on the Ross Kaminsky Show on Denver's 630 KHOW. [...]
Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova discusses the importance of protecting election infrastructure year-around, and not just in the lead-up to elections in Minsait. [...]
Head of External Affairs Rachael Dean Wilson and Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine write in the Birmingham News about how Alabamians can contribute to protecting democracy from authoritarian interference at both the state and federal level. &n [...]
Because of its parent company's relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok has the potential to be a powerful tool for the CCP to censor information and manipulate discourse outside China, China Analyst Matt Schrader argues in Nikkei Asia [...]
ASD Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph writes in Just Security about the need for a holistic national security approach to campaign finance enforcement, in light of the recent arrest of two businessmen charged with funneling foreign donations to [...]
Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman discusses Nevada's new legislation promoting research and development of blockchain technology, and the democratic principals that should guide it, in an editorial for the Reno Gazette Journal. [...]
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer discusses online disinformation and the ongoing impeachment inquiry in the House on NPR's All Things Considered. [...]
ASD Fellow for Malign Finance discusses the bipartisan promise of new beneficial ownership legislation introduced in the Senate in The American Interest. [...]
ASD Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt and Malign Finance Fellow Joshua Rudolph argue for a new, holistic campaign finance framework for countering foreign political contributions. [...]
ASD Co-director Laura Rosenberger joined Amb. Susan Rice, Prof. Joseph Nye, and Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.) for a panel discussion on the Laws of War in Cyberspace. [...]
Western countries should not respond to disinformation campaigns against them with their own disinformation campaigns, Director Laura Rosenberger and Research Assistant Brad Hanlon argue in an article for Progressive Centre UK. [...]
In their first joint op-ed, ASD Co-Directors Laura Rosenberger and Zack Cooper write that Western tech companies’ confirmation of Chinese government efforts to manipulate the information space outside its Great Firewall should serve as a wake-up cal [...]
David Salvo and Clint Watts appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews to discuss U.S. officials’ fear of ransomware attacks on election infrastructure during the 2020 elections. [...]
Research Assistant Etienne Soula discusses the PRC and Hong Kong governments’ use of high tech surveillance tools to counter the outbreak of pro-democracy protests in the increasingly-besieged city-state. [...]
ASD Head of Research and Policy Jessica Brandt gives Axios readers a rundown on the latest Facebook, Twitter, and Google takedowns of accounts associated with coordinated inauthentic behavior on the part of the PRC government. [...]
ASD China Analyst Matt Schrader joined ABC’s David Sparks to discuss Twitter and Facebook’s takedown of a Chinese state-backed disinformation campaign targeting the Hong Kong protest movement. [...]
Using the analogy of a front and a back door, ASD's Josh Kirschenbaum explains that while the U.S. Government has been assiduous in anti-money-laundering enforcement against banks, it has been lax in its AML enforcement against electronic payments c [...]