A comprehensive, weekly recap of the news and events that define ASD’s work and mission.
Announcements We are hiring! Applications are open for ASD at GMF’s Washington, DC-based research traineeship for Fall 2024! Apply here. Our Takes Russia’s recent campaign of sabotage and, in some cases, violence on the European continent signal [...]
Our Takes After the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Russia floated conspiracy theories about Ukrainian involvement, Iran amplified false narratives from the American left and right alike, but the PRC engaged in limited cov [...]
Announcements GMF condemns political violence and the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump last weekend. Read GMF President Heather Conley’s statement here. Our Takes The attempted assassination of Trump prompted a deluge o [...]
Announcements Come work with ASD! We are looking for a Program Coordinator and an Open Source Intelligence Analyst, both based in Washington, DC. Apply here! Check out GMF’s coverage of NATO’s 75th anniversary Summit and Public Forum! Find expert i [...]
Announcements The Securing Democracy Dispatch will take a break next week to celebrate the Fourth of July. We will resume the following week. Come work with ASD! We are looking for a Program Coordinator and an Open Source Intelligence Analyst, both [...]
Announcements Come work with ASD! We are looking for a Program Coordinator and an Open Source Intelligence Analyst, both based in Washington, DC. Apply here! Our Takes Other countries’ strategies to combat election interference are difficult to a [...]
Our Takes “Elections are human-run endeavors and they are imperfect. But the goal is to catch the mistakes quickly and correct them quickly”, Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson said on FOX 5 Washington DC. The European Parliament election res [...]
Announcements ASD and the Cyber Collective announced a partnership to strengthen global cybersecurity and protect democracy! We aim to bring research-backed, expert-verified information to the top of everyday internet users’ algorithms. Read more h [...]
Announcements Today, ASD at GMF, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) released the Information Laundromat, an open-source tool to find content and metadata similarities between websites. In a new report [...]
Hamilton 2.0 Analysis Russian diplomats and state media focused on two main narratives this week: Threats to Zelenskyy: Russian officials last week claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “no longer has the right to represent Ukraine i [...]
Announcements ASD would like your feedback! Please fill out our survey about ASD’s work and publications. (Estimated time to complete: one minute or less) Our Takes This week’s US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing showed bipartisan concern ov [...]
Announcements ASD would like your feedback! Please fill out our survey about ASD’s work and publications. (Estimated time to complete: one minute or less) Our Takes The recent spate of “cash-for-influence, election interference, and espionage cas [...]
Announcements ASD would like your feedback! Please fill out our survey about ASD’s work and publications. (Estimated time to complete: one minute or less) Our Takes Russia’s online influence campaigns have seized on US divisions over the Israel-H [...]
Announcements ASD would like your feedback! Please fill out our survey about ASD’s work and publications. (Estimated time to complete: one minute or less) ASD is hiring a Washington, DC-based, full-time program assistant! Apply here. Our Takes Th [...]
Announcements GMF’s annual Brussels Forum is live today, April 18 and tomorrow, April 19! Tune in here to follow conversations on issues impacting the transatlantic community, including a panel about challenges to election administration on April 1 [...]
Announcements We are hiring! ASD is looking for a full-time program assistant and a Washington, DC-based research trainee for Summer 2024! Apply here. Hamilton 2.0 Analysis Russian diplomats and state media focused on two main narratives this wee [...]
Announcements We are hiring! Applications are open for ASD at GMF’s Washington, DC-based research traineeship for Summer 2024! Apply here. Our Takes The spate of US election officials resigning increases the risk that genuine election administrat [...]
Our Takes If hard right parties translate their momentum into success in June’s European Parliament elections, they will have a large impact on the EU’s future, from who occupies key offices to the bloc’s support for Ukraine, Senior Manager for Eur [...]
Our Takes “Information ecosystems were under unprecedented strain … and then you throw artificial intelligence (AI) into the mix. And what you have is such a harsher threat landscape”, Senior Manager for Europe and Fellow Vassilis Ntousas said at a [...]
Our Takes Despite US President Joe Biden’s campaign joining TikTok, “it does seem that the administration is still willing to pursue aggressive action to resolve the national security concerns there”, Senior Fellow Lindsay Gorman told DW News. “The [...]
Announcements On Tuesday, March 12, Senior Fellow Lindsay Gorman will participate on a panel about elections in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, alongside Colorado Secretary of Stat [...]
Announcements Omelas and ASD released a new dashboard—the second in a series of dashboards dedicated to monitoring information environments ahead of key global elections in 2024—to track publicly available information about the upcoming Russian pre [...]
Announcements Join ASD’s David Salvo and Bret Schafer for an online event with Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to discuss increasing overlap in the information space between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia. Regist [...]
Announcements ASD, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, is launching two initiatives to strengthen democratic resilience worldwide: one to foster the adoption of content authenticity technologies in newsrooms to address the proliferation [...]
Our Takes Artificial Intelligence (AI) will magnify and ease malign actors’ abilities to push false election narratives and breach electoral systems. Election workers should be equipped to counter these threats ahead of 2024. Senior Fellows Lindsay [...]
Hamilton 2.0 Analysis Russian diplomats and state media focused on two main narratives this week:Â Civil War in the United States: Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev created a stir last week with a post that asserted that the ongoing dispute [...]
Announcements ASD is teaming up with GMF Geostrategy for a GMF 2024 US Elections monthly digest to provide analysis of the elections, with a focus on GMF experts’ insights into threats to US elections and analysis of transatlantic policy issues. Si [...]
Announcements ASD is teaming up with GMF Geostrategy for a GMF 2024 US Elections newsletter! This monthly newsletter will provide regular analysis of the elections, with a focus on GMF experts’ insights into threats to the US elections and analysis [...]
Announcements ASD is pleased to welcome Shanthi Kalathil as a Visiting Senior Fellow. Previously the coordinator for democracy and human rights at the National Security Council, Kalathil will lead an initiative at ASD to foster networks of democrat [...]
Our Takes With consequential elections scheduled around the globe in 2024, democracies should pay attention to Taiwan’s upcoming presidential election to learn how best to combat foreign interference and disinformation, China Technology Analyst Dyl [...]
Announcements Join the team! Applications are still open for a Senior Officer for AI and Democracy for ASD’s Tech and Geopolitics team. Apply here. This is the Dispatch’s final edition of 2023! We will resume our usual publishing schedule the first [...]
Announcements We’re hiring! Applications are open for a Senior Officer for AI and Democracy for ASD’s Tech and Geopolitics team! Apply here. Our Takes “We have moved to a new era that… is about these societal level coalitions that pull in players [...]
Announcements We’re hiring for three positions! Applications are open for a Senior Officer for AI and Democracy for ASD’s Tech and Geopolitics team, a communications coordinator, and a research trainee for Spring 2024! Apply here. Our Takes In th [...]
Announcements The Securing Democracy Dispatch will take a break next week to celebrate Thanksgiving! We will resume the following week. We’re hiring! Applications are open for ASD at GMF’s Washington, DC-based research traineeship for Spring 2024! [...]
Announcements Join GMF and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies on Wednesday, November 15 for a discussion on the transatlantic alliance amid political uncertainty in the United States and Russian aggression, featuring ASD Co-Managing Di [...]
Announcements ASD’s Hamilton 2.0 dashboard has been updated! The interactive tool now includes data from Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media and information channels on Telegram, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Explore the dashboard here. [...]
Our Takes Warsaw’s probable new government will face challenges reinforcing Polish democracy. But its recent electoral victory may pave a path for Poland’s return to liberal democratic norms and realignment with EU standards, Head of Europe Vassili [...]
Our Takes Polish voters turned out in historic numbers to elect what will likely become a new governing coalition, despite the country’s slide toward autocracy, including state capture of the media and politicized government institutions. Read Seni [...]
News and Commentary X flooded with falsified and graphic content around Israel-Hamas conflict: Posts spreading falsified and graphic content around hostilities between Israel and Hamas have flooded X (formerly Twitter)—including improperly labeled [...]
Our Takes Russia, China, and other authoritarian regimes weaponize democracies’ free information ecosystems to undermine support for democracy. The United States should leverage its advantages to fight back in the information space through public d [...]