A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Laura Thornton on DW News: Russia ‘Watching with Concern’ after Georgia Drops ‘Foreign Agent’ Bill
Senior Vice President of Democracy Laura Thornton joined DW News to discuss Georgia's "foreign agents" law and the protests that led parliament to drop it. [...]
Laura Thornton in Caucasian Journal: Georgia’s Ruling Party Withdraws ‘Foreign Agents’ Law
Following the Georgian parliament’s passage [of the "foreign agents" law], I was once again inspired by the Georgian people who took to the street to peacefully protest. As you know well, security agents have violently attacked them. This is sadly n [...]
David Salvo Discusses Biden’s Ukraine Trip on Background Briefing
Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Biden's Meeting With the Bucharest 9 Who Expressed Unanimous Solidarity With Ukraine In the short term, the war should be seen as a Ukrainian victory and a Russian blunder, but Kyiv will need continued Western [...]
China’s Top Diplomat Meets with Putin | ASD’s Lindsay Gorman on BBC World News
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined BBC World News on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 to discuss the meeting between Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, and Russian President Vladimir [...]
Putin Promised Not to Kill Ukraine’s Zelensky | ASD’s David Salvo on Scripps News
David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined Scripps News on Sunday, February 5, 2023 to discuss the latest updates on Russia’s war in Ukraine. [...]
FACT SHEET: Hamilton 68 Dashboard (2017-2018)
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) began hosting the Hamilton 68 dashboard in August 2017 to track Russian influence operations on Twitter. By analyzing a dynamic list of more than 600 Twitter accounts linked, wittingly or unwittingly, to Rus [...]
Laura Thornton in The Hill: Another American Gift to Autocrats
A favorite tune in the foreign information operations playlist is that democracies are in disarray, are inefficient, and do not deliver for citizens. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, China attacked the ability of democracies to ha [...]
David Levine in Idaho Statesman: Three Steps Idaho Can Take to Bolster Election Integrity and Trust in Voting Process
Despite fears of false and misleading election information resulting in more election worker threats and doubt about the 2022 elections, Idaho appears to have emerged from the midterms relatively unscathed. Idaho election officials and their partner [...]
15 Minutes with Elections Expert David Levine
OSET Institute's feature interview is with David Levine, Elections Integrity Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy of the German Marshall Fund. David is a non-practicing lawyer and previously, the Ada County, Idaho Elections Director. David [...]
Josh Rudolph in Just Security: Extend US Leadership on Ukraine to Post-War Reconstruction Too
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, taking the security risk to come to Washington for meetings with President Joe Biden and lawmakers, reassured a joint session of Congress yesterday that, “Your money is not charity. It’s an investment in the [...]
David Salvo Discusses Efforts to Bring Home Paul Whelan from Russia on Fox News
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined LiveNOW from FOX on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. He discussed why Russia did not include Paul Whelan in the Brittney G [...]
David Levine in The Fulcrum: Reforming the Electoral Count Act Remains Critical to Ensuring Free and Fair Presidential Elections
Should members of Congress be able to object to election results as part of a strategy to draw greater attention to election reform efforts, as two Democratic members tried to do following George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004? Should members of Congr [...]