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Ongoing innovation is innate to the human spirit and stops at no borders. While Americans are rightly proud of being the nation that gave the world powered flight, we owe the development of the modern monoplane design to a Romanian, Trajan Vuia, who [...]
Alex von Tunzelmann and Robin Lustig look at the day’s top stories, including the first state visit to the US by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, companies hiring refugees in Europe and why an invitation to see the mayor of Tehran led to the r [...]
“The key Ukrainian principle is simple and fair, namely: no ruins will be left in Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London, where world leaders and CEOs are expected to discuss the cos [...]
Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman testified before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission about areas of convergence between the United States and the European Union on technology issues. Below is a copy of her wri [...]
There remains a crisis of confidence in US elections, despite their successful administration in 2022. Many Americans harbor mistaken beliefs about the outcome of the 2020 elections and the way elections are run, and foreign and domestic bad actors [...]
Russian officials and diplomats have been coordinating an unusually organized and large-scale disinformation campaign to discredit reports that the nation is responsible for the June 6 collapse of the Nova Kakhovka Dam, according to a new study. Disi [...]
Most eyes are on the fighting in the Donbas as Ukraine’s counteroffensive appears to get under way. But far from the front lines, a vital discussion is taking place in Western capitals: What will it take to rebuild Ukraine when the war is finally ov [...]
On June 6, a major dam is southern Ukraine was destroyed, triggering a humanitarian and ecological crisis in the region. David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Scripps News to discuss how this impacts Ru [...]
NATO was created to protect Europe and the democratic West from a threat from Russia. Seventy years on, the mission is the same, but is the ever expanding alliance equipped for the future? Lindsay Gorman is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fun [...]
A few weeks ago, at an event focused on democratic decline in the United States, I raised the persistent threat of foreign autocratic actors. The audience reacted ambivalently. “That’s so 2016,” one attendee remarked. The conversation moved on to mo [...]
Still reeling from the long-term effects of more than a decade of economic turmoil, most Greeks headed to the polls on 21 May expecting that this election would be far less fateful when compared to previous turbulent cycles during the crisis years, [...]
If Kyiv’s international donors don’t lay out how they plan to ensure transparency in the reconstruction process, it won’t be funded on a scale worthy of the country’s sacrifices. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces gets underway, t [...]
Understanding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) interference in Canadian elections – and deterring it from happening in the future – should be an issue that unites Canadian politicians of all parties. On May 9, I testified as a witness at a commit [...]
Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should not have investigated connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election after a four year investigation. Rachael Dean Wilson, managing director of the Alliance f [...]
ASD Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies and former White House advisor Lindsay Gorman joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss the OpenAI CEO's congressional hearing, and why the EU has a leg up on the US when it comes to AI regulation. [...]
However, this rosy optimism ignores the reality that this year’s two most important elections — in the critical NATO allies of Turkey and Poland — will be administered by regimes that maintain their grip on power through similar autocratic playbooks [...]
Last Sunday, a week before the most hotly contested election in modern Turkish history, police stood by as fanatics supporting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pelted opposition politicians and their supporters with stones at a rally that had to be cu [...]
Managing Director David Salvo testified before Canadian Parliament's Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs about ASD at GMF's work with Microsoft and the Government of Canada on countering foreign election interference. Below is a copy o [...]
As AI technology advances at an unprecedented pace, experts and policymakers are becoming increasingly concerned about its potential impact on society. From job displacement to biased decision-making, there are growing fears that AI could have uninte [...]
Etienne Soula, research analyst at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined LiveNOW on FOX on Thursday, April 27, to discuss China’s role in peace talks in Ukraine after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymy [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States today released Autocrats Within, an in-depth analysis of the autocratic threats facing the two most consequential national elections of 2023: Turkey and Poland. In [...]
While TikTok has been getting a lot of heat lately for its connections to China, there’s also a larger privacy and data problem across all social media platforms. We speak with two experts about the fast-evolving social media landscape and how con [...]
In early April, the US State Department took an unprecedented decision against Georgia, sanctioning four Georgian judges. Civil.ge asked experts to assess the consequences of this move and whether they expect it to have a continuation. It is a ne [...]
Just as the Netanyahu government took its lessons from authoritarian playbooks the world over, so, too, will illiberal governments with anti-democratic aspirations take a page from Israel if the government’s attempted coup ultimately succeeds. For t [...]
Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Navy Vet Behind Pro-Putin Site that Doctored and Spread Documents Stolen by a National Guard Airman We look into the role of a recent member of the US Navy, Sarah Bils, who runs a pro-Putin social media site D [...]
Last month a company in San Francisco called OpenAi released an artificial intelligence system called GPT-4 - a successor to its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. The latest version can respond to images, write captions and descriptions - processi [...]
On April 4, Twitter placed a state-affiliated media label on NPR’s account. The label is meant to provide users with context when they see a media account that is under a state’s editorial control, like Russia’s RT and China’s People’s Daily that la [...]
The company has tried to distance itself, but the information push shows just how deeply invested Beijing is in its fate. In an information campaign primarily run on Twitter, Chinese officials and state media organizations widely mocked the United [...]
Washington, D.C. – Just weeks ago, TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified that the app functions independently of the Chinese Communist Party. But a new analysis of data from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund’s Hamilton 2.0 da [...]
On the sidelines of the Summit for Democracy 2023, It All Intersects spoke to Laura Thornton of the German Marshall Fund and Katie La Roque of Freedom House. There are serious human security concerns and humanitarian issues faced by people in democ [...]
David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined LiveNOW on FOX on Friday, March 31, to discuss the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Even Gershkovich in Russi [...]
This week, all federal employees have to remove TikTok from their government-issued devices, the deadline coming just days after a Congressional hearing took aim at the social media app. NBC News Correspondent Jacob Ward breaks down the dangers of t [...]
A year ago, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, TikTok started labeling accounts operated by Russian state propaganda agencies as a way to tell users they were being exposed to Kremlin disinformation. An analysis a year later shows the policy ha [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined NewsNation on Thursday, March 30, to discuss the ongoing threat TikTok poses to Americans as the United States reached the deadline for US [...]
Washington, DC – During last week’s Congressional hearing, TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified that TikTok labels state-backed media accounts. A new analysis from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund shows that’s not always the [...]
We begin with the Biden administration’s second Summit for Democracy that began today in Washington D.C. with over 120 world leaders joining in by video minus NATO members Hungary and Turkey who were excluded although India’s Modi, who just jaile [...]
At this week’s Summit for Democracy, governments are expected to address how important countering disinformation and securing access to independent media are to democracy’s survival. Efforts to build and strengthen information resilience are taking [...]
KELEMEN: This is the second Summit for Democracy, and this year, there will be events in Zambia, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and South Korea. Laura Thornton, who's with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, likes that idea. She says last y [...]
Ask any person working on democracy issues — off the record — about President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, and you get eye rolls followed by a litany of unflattering reviews, including from U.S. government officials. I too have criticized aspects o [...]
Lindsay Gorman of the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy says U.S. companies like Apple have significant manufacturing bases in China, and that complicates the “geopolitical picture.” [...]