A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
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 [...]
Protecting Democracy From Foreign Interference
ASD's Director Laura Rosenberger joined the National Press Club to discuss how to protect democracy from foreign interference. With the midterms this week, all eyes are on the threat of election hacking and interference. Electoral integrity is impo [...]
Diplomatic Cable: #ProtectOurDemocracy
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly discuss the importance of securing our elections and countering authoritarian interference in our democracy on Congressman Joaquin Castro’s (TX-20) Diplomatic Cable podcast. [...]
The German Marshall Fund’s Jamie Fly And Lauren Rosenberger On Election Security Threats
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly joined Julie Mason on Sirius XM’s POTUS channel to talk about how to secure democracies from election hacking and foreign interference. [...]
Foreign Election Interference with Laura Rosenberger
Laura Rosenberger joined Voice of America to discuss foreign election interference ahead of U.S. midterms. As Americans head to the polls to elect a new Congress as well as other state and local officials, Moscow and other malign actors are [...]
A Better European Union Architecture to Fight Money Laundering
ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum and Peterson Institute's Nicolas Veron outline recommendations for a new European unitary architecture to counter the shortcomings of Europe's anti-money laundering regime. A series of banking scandals in mu [...]
A National Security Issue — Not a Partisan One
ASD’s director Laura Rosenberger published a “Think-Piece” for the European Political Strategy Centre’s High-Level Conference on ‘Election Interference in the Digital Age: Building Resilience to Cyber-Enabled Threats.’ Europe is no stranger [...]
Responding to Authoritarian Interference: Leveraging the Democratic Toolkit
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger published a blog post on Power 3.0, which explores how authoritarian governments survive and thrive in a globalized information age, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge. There is li [...]
Countering Russian Money Laundering: Lessons from Latvia
ASD’s Joshua Kirschenbaum joined the Kleptocracy Initiative’s Charles Davidson, Peterson Institute’s Nicolas Veron, Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia Andris Teikmanis, and Head of Latvia’s Financial Intelligence Unit Ilza Znotiņa to discuss Latvi [...]
A Democratic Response to Digital Disinformation: The Role of Civil Society
What is disinformation and what can non-state actors do protect open information and promote the truth? Bret Schafer addresses this concern in Moving Beyond Cyber Wars: A Transatlantic Dialogue, a publication from the American Institute for Contempo [...]