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Etienne Soula Discusses Russia’s Covid Vaccine Disinformation Operations in L’Express
A suspicious agency offered European influencers money to spread negative publicity about the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. Research Assistant Etienne Soula spoke to L'Express about the similarities between this information manipulation attempt and Ru [...]
Josh Rudolph Discusses Alternative Measures for Combating Corruption on ‘Making A Killing’
Josh Rudolph and Abigail Bellows join Nate Sibley to explore how diplomacy, foreign development aid, and financial policy can be leveraged against kleptocracy. Casey Michel and Paul Massaro discuss the hijacking of an airliner by Belarus. [...]
David Levine in The Fulcrum: How Congress Can Help Keep Threats to Our Elections at Bay
It's been over six months since the 2020 presidential election, and Congress remains deeply at odds over how to build on the successes of the election while addressing some of the most significant challenges that were exposed. Intelligence officials [...]
ASD Releases The Weaponized Web: The National Security Implications of Data
We’ve seen companies like Apple lean into protecting private data as a selling point for their products and states like California and Virginia attempt to regulate consumer data when faced with inaction on the federal level. Data privacy is much dis [...]
Nad’a Kovalčíková and David Levine in Minsait: Lessons Learned From Portugal’s Pandemic Election
ASD originally published this piece on April 2, 2021. In January, less than two weeks before Portugal’s presidential election was scheduled, a new wave of the coronavirus threatened to overwhelm hospitals and led the Portuguese government to put t [...]
Lindsay Gorman and Amber Frankland in Just Security: It’s Time for Congress to Push Companies to Come Forward on Hacks
Russia and China have the United States reeling from two devastating cyberattacks in under six months. The mammoth SolarWinds breach—attributed to Russia and affecting at least nine U.S. government agencies, 100 private companies, and further victim [...]
Kristine Berzina Speaks to RND About Russia’s Disinformation Operations in Germany
Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina spoke to German outlet RND about our new German Election Dashboard and Russia's information manipulation operations in Germany around the election and the coronavirus. Please click the link below to read the full artic [...]
Kristine Berzina and Josh Rudolph Talk the Geopolitics of Nord Stream 2 on ‘The Power Vertical’
It was always going to be a difficult needle to thread. The Biden administration clearly views Russia’s Nord Stream-2 natural gas pipeline as a geopolitical project that threatens European energy security and that of Ukraine and eastern flank NATO a [...]
Laura Thornton Discusses Democratic Backsliding with Caucasian Journal
Alexander KAFFKA, editor-in-chief of Caucasian Journal: Dear Laura, it is always a pleasure to meet you – virtually for the time being, but maybe also in person before long: I know that you are planning to be back to Georgia soon. You have worked i [...]
David Levine and Steve Daitch in Electionline: Real Audits Build Trust
Due to the ongoing faux audit of some ballots in Arizona’s 2020 presidential election, much of the public’s attention on ensuring trust in elections has understandably centered around audits. Many voters say that they trust a hand count audit. Hand [...]
Bret Schafer Discusses Russia’s Covid-19 Vaccine Disinformation on ‘The Inoculation’
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer joined "The Inoculation" to discuss Russia's disinformation and mal-information campaign around Western Covid-19 vaccines. Bret, the hosts, and other guests take a look at how the Russian governm [...]
Josh Rudolph in Foreign Affairs: The Fight Against Corruption Needs Economists
The U.S. Treasury Department must make it a priority, Malign Finance Fellow Josh Rudolph argues in Foreign Affairs. Combating corruption and kleptocracy has traditionally been an afterthought in U.S. foreign policy: a goal that most policymakers c [...]