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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 [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger and JG Global Founder John Garnaut published an article in the Asan Forum discussing interference operations from Russia and China. Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin are sy [...]
ASD Co-Directors Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger discuss the five steps Congress can take to defend America against foreign influence. Last week, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster conceded that, “We have failed to impose sufficient costs… [on Russia for the K [...]
Mr. Watts testified on March 30, 2017, at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing and presented a statement, “Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns.” Last week, in a sentencing memorandum for the lawy [...]
One of the goals of the Kremlin’s social media disruption campaign, Special Counsel Robert Mueller unequivocally demonstrated in his recent indictment of 13 Russians, was to elect Donald Trump. Another, according to the indictment, was even simpler: [...]
Before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the idea of turning civilian airplanes into weapons was inconceivable to most. And until it was discovered that Russian President Vladimir Putin had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, it was uni [...]
The warnings are loud, clear, and unambiguous. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told us last week that Russia is attempting to “degrade our democratic values and weaken our alliances.” A few days later, after the Mueller indictment came d [...]
Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger discuss their research on Russia's campaign to strategically deceive public opinion, and their urgent recommendation that a bipartisan effort be mounted to combat Putin’s disinformation offensive on Foreign Policy, ho [...]
The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 presidential election should have served as a wake-up call for Americans that something we took for granted—democracy—is vulnerable to attack by foreign adversaries in new and powerful ways. Instead, we’re mire [...]
One year after the 2016 presidential election, more facts about Russia’s efforts to undermine American democracy are finally beginning to emerge. The recent congressional hearings on the Russian government’s use of tech platforms to interfere in U.S [...]
Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy speaks with CNN on the growing tension between North Korea and the United States. [...]
David Salvo of the Alliance for Securing Democracy speaks to WUSA9 on the Hamilton 68 Dashboard, an online tool that monitors more than 600 Russian Twitter accounts. [...]
The Kremlin’s efforts to influence the 2016 election in the United States are well known – even now, a special prosecutor is investigating Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign. Less well reported are Russia’s social media campaigns in Germany ahead o [...]
Just a few days away from the German federal election, a widely held opinion is that Germany has been spared from interference by Moscow. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the main advocate of the current EU sanctions on Russia, is widely expected to [...]
Protecting our voting systems should be an easy bipartisan win. American voters received yet another rude awakening last month. Chicago’s Board of Elections reported that names, addresses, birth dates and other sensitive information about the city’ [...]
Less than two months remain before Germans go to the polls in a general election. On the surface, this has been as regular an election season as can be: Parties have assembled their programs and teams, candidates have been out campaigning, and polit [...]
GMF Senior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy Laura Rosenberger recaps President Trump's G20 meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel with CNN. [...]
Derek Chollet speaks to Pod Save the World about Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia controversy before transitioning to a conversation about the fight against ISIS in Mosul, Syria and the Trump administration’s policy in Afghanistan. [...]
Jamie Fly speaks with MSNBC on the controversy over President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s discussion on U.S. election interference during their G-20 meeting. [...]
GMF Senior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy Laura Rosenberger responds to President Trump's proposal to form a strategic alliance with Russia during an interview with MSNBC. [...]
GMF Senior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy Laura Rosenberger talks to CNN about President Trump's response to Russia's election interference and North Korea during the G20 summit in Germany. [...]
Donald Trump won’t be the first American president to “reset” relations with Russia following an assault on Western interests and values. In March 2009 President Barack Obama launched his own version of a reset – only seven months after Russia’s bra [...]