A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
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 [...]
California Launches New Effort To Fight Election Disinformation
ASD Social Media Analyst Bret Schafer joins Ben Adler of California Public Radio to discuss California's newly created Office of Election Cybersecurity. California election officials are launching a new effort to fight the kind of disinform [...]
Jamie Fly & Laura Rosenberger join the “In The Arena Podcast”
Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger joined the “In The Arena” podcast to discuss ASD's recent policy blueprint for Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies. Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger joined the McCain Institute's “In The Arena” [...]
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly on Social Media and Foreign Interference
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly appeared on C-Span’s "Washington Journal" to discuss efforts to prevent foreign influence on social media platforms. On September 5, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg [...]
Kavanaugh, Twitter and Facebook in hot seat this week
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joined the Morning Joe crew to discuss Twitter and Facebook's testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. After executives from Twitter and Facebook testified before Congress on Wednesday, Lau [...]
Amid Insecurity, Experts Emphasize Reassuring Voters’ Confidence in Election System
Laura Rosenberger joined Samantha-Jo Roth of Spectrum News to discuss election interference in Florida Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is standing by his claims that Russian hackers have already penetrated some of Florida’s voting registration sys [...]
Russian Interference in U.S. Elections
ASD's Social Media Analyst Bret Schafer joined VOA's Encounter hosted by Carol Castiel. Mark Simakovsky, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center and Bret Schafer, Social Media Analyst at the “Alliance for Securing Democracy” a [...]
Foreign Interference Broad, Ongoing, says Expert
Laura Rosenberger joins Morning Joe on MSNBC After testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joined Tom Rogers on MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss foreign influence operations on social media. Watch [...]
Fmr. NSC Official on Cyber Threats: We need ‘leadership from the top’
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joins Ali Velshi on MSNBC Former NSC official Laura Rosenberger tells Ali Velshi what it takes to ensure America is seeing the full threat posed by bad actors on social media and why, right now, deterrence is l [...]
How Russia is trying to Disrupt the 2018 Election
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joins PBS's Judy Woodruff to discuss Russian efforts to disrupt the 2018 elections. U.S. intelligence agencies are unanimous in their assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and sen [...]
A Look At The Efforts To Monitor A Network Of Twitter Accounts Tied To Russia
Following the Trump-Putin summit, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Bret Schafer, a social media analyst at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, about which hashtags and links are trending among Russia-linked Twitter accounts. The Russian campaign [...]
Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans’ Trust In Local News
TIM MAK Newly discovered aspects of Russia's active measures apparently reveal an effort to exploit Americans' greater trust in local news than in national news organizations. Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 el [...]