Our Take Beijing is interested in weakening democratic institutions in order to remake them in a way that is advantageous to China, explained Director Laura Rosenberger at the Atlantic Council’s Global Forum on Strategic Communications 2019. China [...]
China Analyst Matt Schrader discusses China's influence campaigns and the potential for Chinese interference in the 2020 United States elections on Deutsche Welle. [...]
Bret Schafer talks online political disinformation on the Ross Kaminsky Show on Denver's 630 KHOW. [...]
Announcements The Alliance for Securing Democracy is hiring: We are looking for a Research Assistant to join our Washington, DC-based team. Click here for more information and to apply. Our Take Structural approaches that facilitate a whole-of-so [...]
Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova discusses the importance of protecting election infrastructure year-around, and not just in the lead-up to elections in Minsait. [...]
Head of External Affairs Rachael Dean Wilson and Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine write in the Birmingham News about how Alabamians can contribute to protecting democracy from authoritarian interference at both the state and federal level. &n [...]
Announcement The Alliance for Securing Democracy is hiring: We are looking for a Research Assistant to help us in our work researching and tracking developments in foreign state actors’ efforts to undermine democratic institutions. Knowledge of the [...]
In a world increasingly interconnected by technology, democratic governments are grappling with how to defend against and counter information operations targeting their societies. Russia has emerged as the most prolific foreign actor engaging in t [...]
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 [...]
ASD Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph writes in Just Security about the need for a holistic national security approach to campaign finance enforcement, in light of the recent arrest of two businessmen charged with funneling foreign donations to [...]
Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman discusses Nevada's new legislation promoting research and development of blockchain technology, and the democratic principals that should guide it, in an editorial for the Reno Gazette Journal. [...]
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer discusses online disinformation and the ongoing impeachment inquiry in the House on NPR's All Things Considered. [...]
Our Take A new bill to outlaw anonymous shell companies has broad bipartisan support and is a rare example of Congress working exactly as it is supposed to, argues Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph in The American Interest. Austria’s recent el [...]
Austrian voters delivered a heavy electoral blow to the Austrian far right Freedom Party (FPÖ) this weekend. According to the final result, the FPÖ ’s vote share dropped almost ten percentage points since elections last year. The FPÖ’s poor showing [...]
ASD Fellow for Malign Finance discusses the bipartisan promise of new beneficial ownership legislation introduced in the Senate in The American Interest. [...]