As governments ramp up contact tracing apps to contain the coronavirus, concerns have arisen about how to do this safely and in a way that protects civil liberties in the ongoing struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. Emerging Technologies [...]
The Chinese Communist Party has seized on the importance of international standards bodies for the dual and mutually reinforcing objectives of increasing national competitiveness and building international influence on technology adoption and norms [...]
The global coronavirus pandemic has also spawned an epidemic of online disinformation, ranging from false home remedies to state-sponsored influence campaigns. In the confusing environment, false medical theories have even found accidental legitimiz [...]
Technology companies' response to coronavirus "shows what aggressively confronting a disinformation challenge actually looks like and what our big tech platforms can do when there is a strong will to act,” Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman [...]
Deepfake technology that uses artificial intelligence to create and modify videos, images, and audio recordings to place individuals in situations they were never in, or put false words in their mouths, has burst onto the scene as the latest technol [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková gave a talk on protecting democracy in the digital age at the Ralf Dahrendorf Roundtable in Lisbon. [...]
Huawei should not be allowed to participate in democratic networks around the world, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman asserted on CBC's "Power & Politics." She explained that the phase one U.S.-China trade deal is "essentially a cease [...]
Deepfake technology that uses artificial intelligence to create and modify videos, images, and audio recordings to place individuals in situations they were never in, or put false words in their mouths, has burst onto the scene as the latest technol [...]
The transition to 5G in 2020 may mark the point when Beijing's interests diverge irreconcilably from those of the United States, European Union, and their democratic peers, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman argues in The Atlantic. [...]
Whether NATO comes together or falls apart over 5G will be a test of how it will handle China’s rise, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman argues in Defense One. [...]
Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman discusses the democratization and dangers of deepfakes on a panel titled "Fact vs. Fiction: How the Government is Changing Information Verification" at Defense One and Nextgov's Cyber Summit. [...]
Because of its parent company's relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok has the potential to be a powerful tool for the CCP to censor information and manipulate discourse outside China, China Analyst Matt Schrader argues in Nikkei Asia [...]
Research Assistant Etienne Soula discusses the PRC and Hong Kong governments’ use of high tech surveillance tools to counter the outbreak of pro-democracy protests in the increasingly-besieged city-state. [...]
ASD Head of Research and Policy Jessica Brandt gives Axios readers a rundown on the latest Facebook, Twitter, and Google takedowns of accounts associated with coordinated inauthentic behavior on the part of the PRC government. [...]
ASD China Analyst Matt Schrader joined ABC’s David Sparks to discuss Twitter and Facebook’s takedown of a Chinese state-backed disinformation campaign targeting the Hong Kong protest movement. [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technology Lindsay Gorman wrote in Fifth Domain on the challenge of securing critical data from foreign adversaries in the face of rapid advances in computing technology and cyberespionage. [...]
The following is an introduction to the submission by ASD Intern Amber Frankland In April 2019, the United Kingdom’s Home Office published its Online Harms White Paper, which proposed a regulatory framework designed to address the prevalence of “il [...]
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held its first hearing devoted to the national security implications of artificial intelligence in the information space last week. “For more than five centuries, authors have used variations of t [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman joins former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and Gregg Garrett, head of U.S. and International Cybersecurity at BDO, to discuss the coming problems and potential of big data, a [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman gave her opinion on the proliferation of manipulated media on NPR's All Things Considered. [...]
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence convened yesterday to discuss the challenges posed by AI-manipulated media, better known as deepfakes. There is finally some momentum to “do something” about deepfakes, but crucial misconceptions [...]
Clint Watts Distinguished Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute Non-Resident Fellow, Alliance For Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States Author, Messing With The Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hacker [...]
On Thursday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will host a panel of experts to discuss the national security challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI), manipulated media, and “deepfake” technology. The committee will examin [...]
ASD China Analyst Matt Schrader discusses Huawei's massive public relations campaign outside China, and draws parallels between its tactics and those used by the Chinese Communist Party itself at home and abroad. [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technology Lindsay Gorman discusses Europe's place in the new U.S.-China "Tech Cold War," and the importance to the U.S. of strengthening ties to our transatlantic partners. "A decade ago, a European scholar asked a Chinese [...]
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 [...]
Thank you Chairman Burr, Vice Chairman Warner, and Distinguished Members of the Committee. I submitted my full statement for the record, but let me highlight key points on the national security context of these activities and steps we need to take [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger testified at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's hearing about "Foreign Influence Operations and their use of Social Media" on August 1, 2018. Rosenberger's complete written statement that was submitted to t [...]
On June 18, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee releasedaround 1,100 names of Twitter accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), which is the official name of the Russian troll farm indictedby Special Counsel Robert Mueller for [...]
On May 24, an international team of investigators from the Netherlands, Australia, Malaysia, and Ukraine announced that a Russian anti-aircraft missile was directly responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). The following da [...]
Want to combat disinformation? Borrow a page from the anti-money laundering handbook. Russia’s ability to successfully conduct hybrid warfare is predicated on the creation of a fog of ambiguity between the Kremlin’s actions and the Kremlin itself. [...]
Statement Prepared for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism A decade ago, al Qaeda in Iraq littered YouTube with violent videos. A few years later, Twitter became a playground for al Shabaab’s violent tir [...]