A comprehensive, weekly recap of the news and events that define ASD’s work and mission.
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Our Takes Established democracies have clung to outdated practices as backsliding and cultural changes have accelerated.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 [...]
Announcements Applications for our DC-based summer internships are open! Apply for the communications internship here and the research internship here. Our Take Twitter’s decision to label NPR as state media simultaneously undermined the credibil [...]
Announcements Applications for our DC-based summer internships are open! Apply for the communications internship here and the research internship here. Our Take Chinese diplomats and state media have mounted a sizable influence campaign in defens [...]
Announcements Our team is growing! We’re looking for a China technology analyst and a communications coordinator to join our team in Washington, DC. Apply today! Just launched! The Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, in partnership with the Gov [...]
Announcements Our team is growing! We’re looking for a China technology analyst and a communications coordinator to join our team in Washington, DC, and a program assistant to join our team in Brussels. Apply today! Our Take Chinese diplomats and [...]
Announcements Our team is growing! We’re looking for a China technology analyst and a communications coordinator to join our team in Washington, DC, and a program assistant to join our team in Brussels. Apply today! Our Take Russia is trying to u [...]
Announcements Our team is growing! We’re looking for a China technology analyst and a communications coordinator to join our team in Washington, DC, and a program assistant to join our team in Brussels. Apply today! Our Take Six RT en Español-bac [...]
Our Take Russia's disinformation strategy has moved from trying to justify its war in Ukraine to trying to convince the West that supporting Ukraine is too costly, Joseph Bodnar, Bret Schafer, and Etienne Soula find in A Year of Disinformation: Rus [...]
Our Take In the short term, the war should be seen as a Ukrainian victory and a Russian blunder, but Kyiv will need continued Western support to defend itself, Managing Director David Salvo said on Background Briefing. Despite China’s assertions th [...]
Our Take The war in Ukraine is forcing Georgia to choose between Western democracies and Russia, and the country seems to be leaning toward Russia, Senior Vice President for Democracy Laura Thornton writes for GMF. Russian state media outlets are [...]
Our Take The significance of the Chinese spy balloon incident seems to have taken Chinese authorities by surprise, Research Analyst Etienne Soula told the Washington Post. Russian state media and diplomatic accounts monitored on Hamilton 2.0 mentio [...]
Our Take Proposals to update voters on the status of their mail ballots would help boost voter confidence and increase trust in electoral processes, Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine explained in a Tweet thread. The decision by Japan and the [...]
Our Take China’s proposal that the UN should criminalize the “dissemination of false information” is another example of how Beijing is trying to shape global regulations on digital expression to reflect its own authoritarian model, China Affairs An [...]
Our Take China is actively looking to attract engineers and technologists from around the world with incentives, such as unrivaled salaries and subsidized housing, to build a self-sufficient semiconductor industry, Senior Fellow for Emerging Techno [...]
Our Take At the start of the new year, we asked our experts to each put forth one recommendation that would strengthen democracy during a period of declining trust, emboldened autocrats, and war. Their answers touch on a variety of issues—from the [...]