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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 [...]
Authoritarian Threats to American Democracy Demand Urgent Action
ASD Advisory Council members Julie Smith and Mike Rogers pen an op-ed on authoritarian threats to democracy Two years after the Russian government attempted to undermine the 2016 presidential election, the United States still does not have a [...]
How Every Campaign Will Have a Troll Farm of Its Own
Russia started it, but politicians will proliferate it. Online trolling could become a service for campaigns everywhere... Mark Zuckerberg heads to the nation’s capital this week for some lashings from America’s legislators. On Tuesday, he’ll appea [...]
The Interference Operations from Putin’s Kremlin and Xi’s Communist Party: Forging a Joint Response
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger and JG Global Founder John Garnaut published an article in the Asan Forum discussing interference operations from Russia and China. Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin are sy [...]
Steps Congress Can Take to Defend America against Foreign Influence Operations
ASD Co-Directors Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger discuss the five steps Congress can take to defend America against foreign influence. Last week, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster conceded that, “We have failed to impose sufficient costs… [on Russia for the K [...]
For Russia, Trump Was a Vehicle, Not a Target
Mr. Watts testified on March 30, 2017, at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing and presented a statement, “Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns.” Last week, in a sentencing memorandum for the lawy [...]
The Russian Bots Are Coming. This Bipartisan Duo Is On It.
One of the goals of the Kremlin’s social media disruption campaign, Special Counsel Robert Mueller unequivocally demonstrated in his recent indictment of 13 Russians, was to elect Donald Trump. Another, according to the indictment, was even simpler: [...]
How Silicon Valley Can Protect U.S. Democracy
Before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the idea of turning civilian airplanes into weapons was inconceivable to most. And until it was discovered that Russian President Vladimir Putin had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, it was uni [...]
Banning Bots, Punishing Troll Farmers, and Hardening Voting Machines: Here’s How to Stop Russia From Wrecking Election 2018
The warnings are loud, clear, and unambiguous. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told us last week that Russia is attempting to “degrade our democratic values and weaken our alliances.” A few days later, after the Mueller indictment came d [...]