A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
ASD’s Lindsay Gorman and Matt Schrader on Western Tech Firms in China in Foreign Policy
ASD's Lindsay Gorman and Matt Schrader discuss Western tech firms and their role in building China's surveillance state. When a Dutch cybersecurity researcher disclosed last month that Chinese security contractor SenseNets left a massive fac [...]
ASD’s Joshua Kirschenbaum on AML in the EU with Nicolas Veron
In a new paper, ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum and the Peterson Institute's Nicolas Veron suggest improvements to the EU's anti-money laundering supervisory structure. Major banks or financial institutions in more than 15 countries in the Europea [...]
ASD’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly at Florida International University
ASD Co-directors Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly take part in a panel discussion on Russian and Venezuelan interference at Florida International University in Miami. Russia is using propaganda to exploit American divisions on the turmoil in [...]
Laura Rosenberger on the Technological Threats to Democracy
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger writes on innovation to counter new technological threats to democracy. Adversaries of democracy are deliberately targeting free speech, and democratic nations must get ahead of the technology curve in order to be pro [...]
ASD’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly at the University of Texas-Austin
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, moderates a discussion on authoritarian interference in democracies. The panel features Jamie [...]
ASD’s Bret Schafer Interviewed on CNN
CNN interviews ASD's Social Media Analyst Brett Schafer on Maffick Media. Three online video channels designed to appeal to millennials have collected tens of millions of views on Facebook since September. But the pages pushing the videos do [...]
ASD’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly Interviewed on KERA Radio Dallas
As preparations ramp up for the 2020 presidential election, the intelligence community will be on high alert for signs of Russian tampering. Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly, co-directors of the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, [...]
ASD’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly at the George W. Bush Presidential Center
Bush Institute Human Freedom Fellow Thomas O. Melia interviews Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly about how foreign actors are attempting to use social media to undermine democracy here and abroad. [...]
ASD’s Joshua Kirschenbaum at the European Parliament
ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum Testifies before the European Parliament Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance [...]
A Russian bank gave Marine Le Pen’s party a loan. Then weird things began happening.
Washington Post article highlights ASD and C4ADS' joint investigation into the First Czech-Russian Bank. When French politician Marine Le Pen needed cash for her far-right party, an obscure Russian bank agreed to help. Four years later, the [...]
Growing Russian interference calls for coordinated response
Laura Rosenberger previews the launch of ASD's new Authoritarian Interference Tracker and outlines the threat posed by ongoing Russian interference operations. On Dec. 1, Defense Secretary Mattis became the first Trump administration official to pu [...]
Deep Inside a Pro-Putin Network
ASD's Social Media Analyst and Communications Officer Bret Schafer spoke with Denise Clifton of Mother Jones about lessons learned from a year of monitoring Russian influence operations on social media. Every day, the roughly 600 Kremlin-linked acc [...]