A comprehensive, weekly recap of the news and events that define ASD’s work and mission.
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 [...]
Our Takes Ukrainian victory will not be limited to the battlefield. It will also be determined by how the country rebuilds with help from both government officials and civil society alike. Senior Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph and partners [...]
Our Takes Established democracies have clung to outdated practices as backsliding and cultural changes have accelerated. Some democracies, however, have adopted innovative reforms that should serve as a model for their counterparts, GMF’s Senior Vi [...]
Our Takes The weaponization of genuine election administration mistakes fueled Texas’ takeover of Harris County’s elections. It is not the only place where simple errors such as long lines and insufficient numbers of ballots are being used to cast [...]
Our Takes All technology platforms see data as an asset. But Chinese platforms snoop on users more brazenly, and that data could fuel China’s campaign for global technology leadership, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman told DW [...]
Our Takes Poland’s ruling party has eroded the country’s democracy for almost a decade. The OSCE should send a full-scale election observation to monitor challenges on election day this fall and signal its commitment to fighting the increasing thre [...]
Our Takes Although it may temporarily disrupt the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s possible death will not stop Russia’s security services from continuing malign influence operations around the world, Managing Director David Salvo told the Washing [...]
Announcements ICYMI: ASD launched the War in Ukraine: Military Bloggers dashboard, an interactive, open-source tool for analyzing the reach and messaging of prominent Russian military bloggers on Telegram! Read our key takeaways from the dashboard [...]
Announcements Today we launched the War in Ukraine: Military Bloggers dashboard, an interactive, open-source tool for analyzing the reach and messaging of prominent Russian military bloggers on Telegram! Check out key takeaways from the dashboard h [...]
Our Takes The explosion of generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, threatens to unleash a wave of uniquely deceptive disinformation ahead of the 2024 US elections. Everyone from campaigns to civil society must impose rules on the technolo [...]
Our Takes China has caught up to the United States in several critical and emerging technologies, but the United States can still retain its edge—if it plays its cards right, starting now, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman said [...]
Our Take Campaigns have started to use images generated by artificial intelligence alongside authentic images, making it difficult for citizens to discern which are real and which are fake, Senior Fellow Lindsay Gorman demonstrated in newly release [...]
Our Take Lemon8, a new app from TikTok parent ByteDance, is still relatively small in the United States, but it could grow to pose national security risks, Senior Fellow Lindsay Gorman said on CNN. The only way Russia can win the war is if the Uni [...]
Our Take The widespread use of AI-generated images and videos has made it difficult not just to tell whether something is fake, but also whether something is real, which is advantageous to autocrats trying to sow doubt and discord in the informatio [...]
Announcements We hosted a half-day event on the margins of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London to help cement a stronger recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine and to showcase Ukraine's financial integrity and transparency efforts. Watch the [...]
Announcements Join us online tomorrow, June 23 for a half-day conference to help cement a stronger recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine. Learn more and register here. Our Take The fight against oligarchy and corruption in Ukraine is critical to [...]
Announcements Join us online or in person in London next Friday for a half-day conference to help cement a stronger recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine. Learn more and register here. Our Take The United States should turn to an often overlooke [...]
Our Take There's never been a more important time for democracies to get together and defend themselves against the rise of autocracy that is being led by Russia and China, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman said on Channel 4 Ne [...]
Announcements ICYMI, ASD hosted a panel at GMF’s Brussels Forum on the US 2024 elections. Watch the panel with ASD Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson, pollster Frank Luntz, Deutsche Welle Washington bureau chief Ines Pohl, and MSNBC host Ali Vel [...]
Our Take International donors can take five steps to ensure accountability and transparency in Ukrainian reconstruction, Senior Fellow Josh Rudolph and Amb. Norm Eisen write in the new GMF publication Toward a Marshall Plan for Ukraine. Learn more [...]
Our Take Politics may dominate discussions of Special Counsel John Durham’s recent report, but the real takeaway is that foreign interference in US democracy remains a serious threat, Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson said on Fox. The US gover [...]
Our Take China and other authoritarian regimes are attempting to undermine Canadians’ confidence in democratic governance and the integrity of Canadian elections, Managing Director David Salvo said in testimony to the Canadian Parliament. The viol [...]
Our Take Instead of pursuing a platform-by-platform approach to social media regulation, as many governments have with TikTok, democracies should work together to develop a comprehensive framework for addressing the threats posed by authoritarian i [...]
Announcements ICYMI, we hosted an event with IFES on the autocratic threats facing Turkey and Poland’s elections with Josh Rudolph, Dr. Cassandra Emmons, and Dr. Lisel Hintz. Watch the recording here. Our Take Domestic corruption is the greatest [...]
Announcements Join ASD at GMF and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems on Thursday, April 27 for a discussion on how domestic corruption could impact the freedom of this year’s elections in Turkey and Poland. Register here! Applicatio [...]