A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
ASD Managing Director David Salvo penned an op-ed in The Hill on the steps that must be taken to protect our democracy from malign interference now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has concluded. As Attorney General Barr’s letter [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technology Lindsay Gorman sat down for a panel discussion at the 2019 NATO Engages conference with Ken Loy, CEO of Hensoldt Inc., Admiral Manfred Nielson, NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Noam Perski, Inte [...]
Lowy Institute Senior Fellow Richard McGregor and Laura Rosenberger discuss the state of relations between the United States and China. The relationship between Washington and Beijing is increasingly competitive. The economic interdependence [...]
Need to Take Xi Jinping’s Tech Ambitions Seriously, Says Alliance for Securing Democracy Laura Rosenberger discusses the complexities of the U.S.-China trade negotiations, and the implications for Chinese technology development and export fo [...]
ASD's Laura Rosenberger interviewed by Fran Kelly of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ASD Director Laura Rosenberger sat down with Fran Kelly of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss Russian interference in the 2016 and 2018 U. [...]
ASD's Lindsay Gorman and Matt Schrader discuss Western tech firms and their role in building China's surveillance state. When a Dutch cybersecurity researcher disclosed last month that Chinese security contractor SenseNets left a massive fac [...]
In a new paper, ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum and the Peterson Institute's Nicolas Veron suggest improvements to the EU's anti-money laundering supervisory structure. Major banks or financial institutions in more than 15 countries in the Europea [...]
ASD Co-directors Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly take part in a panel discussion on Russian and Venezuelan interference at Florida International University in Miami. Russia is using propaganda to exploit American divisions on the turmoil in [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger writes on innovation to counter new technological threats to democracy. Adversaries of democracy are deliberately targeting free speech, and democratic nations must get ahead of the technology curve in order to be pro [...]
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, moderates a discussion on authoritarian interference in democracies. The panel features Jamie [...]
CNN interviews ASD's Social Media Analyst Brett Schafer on Maffick Media. Three online video channels designed to appeal to millennials have collected tens of millions of views on Facebook since September. But the pages pushing the videos do [...]
As preparations ramp up for the 2020 presidential election, the intelligence community will be on high alert for signs of Russian tampering. Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly, co-directors of the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, [...]
Bush Institute Human Freedom Fellow Thomas O. Melia interviews Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly about how foreign actors are attempting to use social media to undermine democracy here and abroad. [...]
ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum Testifies before the European Parliament Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance [...]
Washington Post article highlights ASD and C4ADS' joint investigation into the First Czech-Russian Bank. When French politician Marine Le Pen needed cash for her far-right party, an obscure Russian bank agreed to help. Four years later, the [...]
Disinformation as well as information manipulation and weaponization exploit internal fragmentations to amplify divisions and create chaos in democratic societies, Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova argues in the December 2018 issue of the Italian ma [...]
Laura Rosenberger previews the launch of ASD's new Authoritarian Interference Tracker and outlines the threat posed by ongoing Russian interference operations. On Dec. 1, Defense Secretary Mattis became the first Trump administration official to pu [...]
ASD's Social Media Analyst and Communications Officer Bret Schafer spoke with Denise Clifton of Mother Jones about lessons learned from a year of monitoring Russian influence operations on social media. Every day, the roughly 600 Kremlin-linked acc [...]
ASD's Director Laura Rosenberger joined the National Press Club to discuss how to protect democracy from foreign interference. With the midterms this week, all eyes are on the threat of election hacking and interference. Electoral integrity is impo [...]
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly discuss the importance of securing our elections and countering authoritarian interference in our democracy on Congressman Joaquin Castro’s (TX-20) Diplomatic Cable podcast. [...]
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly joined Julie Mason on Sirius XM’s POTUS channel to talk about how to secure democracies from election hacking and foreign interference. [...]
Laura Rosenberger joined Voice of America to discuss foreign election interference ahead of U.S. midterms. As Americans head to the polls to elect a new Congress as well as other state and local officials, Moscow and other malign actors are [...]
ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum and Peterson Institute's Nicolas Veron outline recommendations for a new European unitary architecture to counter the shortcomings of Europe's anti-money laundering regime. A series of banking scandals in mu [...]
ASD’s director Laura Rosenberger published a “Think-Piece” for the European Political Strategy Centre’s High-Level Conference on ‘Election Interference in the Digital Age: Building Resilience to Cyber-Enabled Threats.’ Europe is no stranger [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger published a blog post on Power 3.0, which explores how authoritarian governments survive and thrive in a globalized information age, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge. There is li [...]
ASD’s Joshua Kirschenbaum joined the Kleptocracy Initiative’s Charles Davidson, Peterson Institute’s Nicolas Veron, Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia Andris Teikmanis, and Head of Latvia’s Financial Intelligence Unit Ilza Znotiņa to discuss Latvi [...]
What is disinformation and what can non-state actors do protect open information and promote the truth? Bret Schafer addresses this concern in Moving Beyond Cyber Wars: A Transatlantic Dialogue, a publication from the American Institute for Contempo [...]
ASD Social Media Analyst Bret Schafer joins Ben Adler of California Public Radio to discuss California's newly created Office of Election Cybersecurity. California election officials are launching a new effort to fight the kind of disinform [...]
Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger joined the “In The Arena” podcast to discuss ASD's recent policy blueprint for Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies. Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger joined the McCain Institute's “In The Arena” [...]
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly appeared on C-Span’s "Washington Journal" to discuss efforts to prevent foreign influence on social media platforms. On September 5, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joined the Morning Joe crew to discuss Twitter and Facebook's testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. After executives from Twitter and Facebook testified before Congress on Wednesday, Lau [...]
Laura Rosenberger joined Samantha-Jo Roth of Spectrum News to discuss election interference in Florida Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is standing by his claims that Russian hackers have already penetrated some of Florida’s voting registration sys [...]
ASD's Social Media Analyst Bret Schafer joined VOA's Encounter hosted by Carol Castiel. Mark Simakovsky, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center and Bret Schafer, Social Media Analyst at the “Alliance for Securing Democracy” a [...]
Laura Rosenberger joins Morning Joe on MSNBC After testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joined Tom Rogers on MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss foreign influence operations on social media. Watch [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joins Ali Velshi on MSNBC Former NSC official Laura Rosenberger tells Ali Velshi what it takes to ensure America is seeing the full threat posed by bad actors on social media and why, right now, deterrence is l [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joins PBS's Judy Woodruff to discuss Russian efforts to disrupt the 2018 elections. U.S. intelligence agencies are unanimous in their assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and sen [...]
Following the Trump-Putin summit, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Bret Schafer, a social media analyst at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, about which hashtags and links are trending among Russia-linked Twitter accounts. The Russian campaign [...]
TIM MAK Newly discovered aspects of Russia's active measures apparently reveal an effort to exploit Americans' greater trust in local news than in national news organizations. Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 el [...]
ASD Advisory Council members Julie Smith and Mike Rogers pen an op-ed on authoritarian threats to democracy Two years after the Russian government attempted to undermine the 2016 presidential election, the United States still does not have a [...]
Russia started it, but politicians will proliferate it. Online trolling could become a service for campaigns everywhere... Mark Zuckerberg heads to the nation’s capital this week for some lashings from America’s legislators. On Tuesday, he’ll appea [...]