Introduction The typical local election official in the United States is a white woman who is older than 50, earns more than $40,000, does not have a college degree, and is less likely today than in the past to have extensive experience in electio [...]
Meta’s recent report on the company’s takedown of a Chinese government information campaign that was the “largest cross-platform operation” ever, and of several smaller influence campaigns that originated in Turkey, Iran, and Russia, named hundreds [...]
Last month, seven leading artificial intelligence companies agreed to voluntary commitments with the White House on AI safety, security and trust. But there’s one glaring and urgent omission: a deadline. No timeline or details regarding implementat [...]
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has launched a new social media app called Lemon8. Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman joined CNN to discuss whether this new app will receive the same scrutiny that TikTok has. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, a technology expert at the German Marshall Fund, discusses on "Face the Nation" how to differentiate AI-generated images online from real ones. "Context is a really important piece of this," she noted. [...]
As AI technology advances at an unprecedented pace, experts and policymakers are becoming increasingly concerned about its potential impact on society. From job displacement to biased decision-making, there are growing fears that AI could have uninte [...]
Below is an unedited transcript of the proceedings provided by the Australian Parliament. Read the full transcript here. GORMAN, Ms Lindsay, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies and Head, Technology and Geopolitics Team, Alliance for Securing De [...]
Last month a company in San Francisco called OpenAi released an artificial intelligence system called GPT-4 - a successor to its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. The latest version can respond to images, write captions and descriptions - processi [...]
The company has tried to distance itself, but the information push shows just how deeply invested Beijing is in its fate. In an information campaign primarily run on Twitter, Chinese officials and state media organizations widely mocked the United [...]
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday 23 March to testify in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where lawmakers peppered him with questions about TikTok’s Chinese ownership, effects on youth, and practices aroun [...]
As part of NSI’s ongoing series, “A Spotlight on China’s Global Repression,” NSI is excited to host a discussion examining how China uses digital tools, such as social media platforms like WeChat and TikTok and its social credit system, to further t [...]
This week, all federal employees have to remove TikTok from their government-issued devices, the deadline coming just days after a Congressional hearing took aim at the social media app. NBC News Correspondent Jacob Ward breaks down the dangers of t [...]
A year ago, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, TikTok started labeling accounts operated by Russian state propaganda agencies as a way to tell users they were being exposed to Kremlin disinformation. An analysis a year later shows the policy ha [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined NewsNation on Thursday, March 30, to discuss the ongoing threat TikTok poses to Americans as the United States reached the deadline for US [...]
Overview TikTok has been central to the world’s understanding of Russia’s war in Ukraine. It was particularly valuable in the conflict’s early days when people were desperate for news and able to find real-time updates about military maneuvers and o [...]
Lindsay Gorman of the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy says U.S. companies like Apple have significant manufacturing bases in China, and that complicates the “geopolitical picture.” [...]
Lindsay Gorman, a senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, talked about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Moscow this week and the potential Chinese influence over TikTok. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, and Mandeep Singh, Senior Technology Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, discuss TikTok's uncertain future after the company's CEO [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Scripps News on Thursday, March 23, to preview TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined LiveNOW FOX to discuss a possible US TikToK ban ahead of the CEO's congressional testimony. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined BBC on Thursday, March 23, to discuss the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Chew. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Scripps News on Thursday, March 23, to discuss the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s reaction to TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s testimony. [...]
The Biden administration is giving TikTok an ultimatum. The Chinese owners of the app must sell their stake in the company, or we will ban the app in the United States. Former Biden administration adviser Lindsay Gorman with the Alliance for Secu [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined BBC World News on Thursday, March 16, 2023 to discuss the United Kingdom’s decision to ban TikTok on government devices. The UK ban follows [...]
At the start of the new year, we asked our experts to each put forth one recommendation that would strengthen democracy during a period of declining trust, emboldened autocrats, and war. Their answers touch on a variety of issues—from the war in Ukr [...]
Tomorrow’s midterm elections will be a benchmark for the state of American democracy. As early voting surges, people around the country (and the world) are watching to see what happens in what is perhaps the most important midterm election in recent [...]
Americans who were previously employed by intelligence agencies are now working for TikTok, and it is raising security concerns. The U.S. intelligence community sees China as its top threat. But Americans who have left intelligence agencies are ge [...]
Three years ago, TikTok imposed strict rules prohibiting campaign advertising as the video-sharing app tried to avoid the scandals over political content that have long dogged its social media rivals. But with Election Day fast approaching, TikTok c [...]
Amidst an already mixed and muddled information morass, this election cycle, a new social media platform has joined the US political information environment: Chinese-owned viral video app TikTok. Despite years of warnings from researchers and lawmak [...]
The US Department of Justice unsealed charges against two Chinese intelligence officers for allegedly obstructing the DOJ’s probe into Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei on Monday, October 24. Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technol [...]
Yesterday, the Biden administration released its National Security Strategy, which focuses on the competition between democracy and autocracy, lays out threats coming from Russia and China, and notes that the US must both strengthen democracy at hom [...]
A little-known U.N. agency that develops worldwide technical standards for the internet will gain unfamiliar geopolitical attention as scientists, engineers, and government officials descend on Bucharest, Romania, this week. On Thursday, government [...]
This week, Chris, Zack, and Melanie talk about a new report, “Rebuild: Toolkit for a New American Industrial Policy,” from the Center for a New American Security. The United States government has a number of ways to intervene in the economy to adv [...]
In this episode, Rasheed Griffith talks to Bryce Barros, Nathan Kohlenberg, and Etienne Soula about their report about China’s influence over the digital information environment outside of its borders. Related Reading: China and the Digital Informat [...]
Earlier this month, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman announced while on a tour of the Pacific Island states that U.S. President Joe Biden “is looking forward to welcoming” Pacific Leaders in September 2022. Although the exact date of thi [...]
Last week, Congress passed the long awaited CHIPS and Science Act, which will incentivize domestic chip manufacturing, and invest in advanced research in areas, such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and robotics. Along with reinvigorati [...]
We are learning about more text messages that went missing from government phones after the January 6 Capitol riot. Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, joined CBS News' Lana Zak to discuss. [...]
Introduction The 21st Century started with the promise of how technologies can be used to bolster, not undermine, democracies, activism, and human rights. However, the maddening pace at which digital technologies have evolved in recent years means [...]
More than a year and a half after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold its first public hearing this Thursday. The televised series of hearings will f [...]
Last week, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden hosted a virtual Summit for Democracy with 110 countries and governments, in which he called on leaders to make commitments to bolster democracy before an in-person summit is hosted later in 2022—but did the [...]