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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Panelists: Anneli Ahonen, Senior Fellow, ISD Global, and Former Head of East Stratcom Task Force, EEAS & EU vs Disinfo Renée DiResta, Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory Lee Foster, Senior Vice President, Althea Group and Former Dire [...]
YouTube’s decision last week to remove RT’s German-language channels for violating the platform’s coronavirus misinformation policy sparked an outcry from Moscow, with the foreign ministry claiming that the move was “fully in line with the logic of [...]
Since the earliest days of the pandemic, Chinese state officials and media outlets have disseminated conspiracy narratives claiming that COVID-19 originated at Fort Detrick—a U.S. army research facility in Maryland that has been the target of disinf [...]
Much has been said about Apple’s recently announced “Child Safety” initiatives. The focus has been (rightly so) on the perceptions of user privacy and implications of content processing happening on user devices versus cloud servers. Child safety pr [...]
Lindsay Gorman details China’s data ambitions with a particular eye to how they relate to emerging technology goals associated with AI. She then discusses how these efforts complicate democratic values in cyberspace and analyzes options for how demo [...]
In the final year of the Trump administration, the U.S. government issued a flurry of actions related to China, utilizing a diverse basket of economic statecraft tools in furtherance of national security objectives.The Trump administration’s tariffs [...]
Cybersecurity Fellow Maurice Turner led a conversation on making cyberspace safe for democracy at the German Marshall Fund's Brussels Forum. He was joined Mieke Eoyang, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy at the U.S. Departmen [...]
This paper is the second in a series on technology policy through the lens of national security, published in partnership with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Read the first paper on the digita [...]
On Monday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) confirmed to Politico that it is working to establish a Foreign Malign Influence Center. The center, which was first authorized as part of the 2020 Defense Authorization bill, wil [...]
Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman joined the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s third annual Tech, Trade, and China conference, where she discussed export controls and technology cooperation with China. [...]
Dahua and Hikvision are accused of being connected to China's military and human rights abuses. Amazon profits by selling their products online. Selling their products isn’t illegal, but it does raise ethical questions for tech analysts like Lindsa [...]
Last Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held yet another hearing to grill social media CEOs about the mis- and disinformation on their platforms. While much of the hearing consisted of members soliciting soundbites from the executives [...]