A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
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 [...]
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 [...]