This article was originally published as a GMF Transatlantic Take on July 31, 2020. After the United Kingdom’s parliament released its recent report on Russian interference in British democracy, front-page headlines howled that it damns the governme [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined GovExec's daily podcast to discuss the security of the election, mail-in voting, and the coronavirus. The 2020 election cycle was expected to dominate this year, but it has been moved aside as the corona [...]
The Russian, Chinese, and Iranian networks monitored on Hamilton showed little topical overlap last week, save for the ever-present coverage of the coronavirus. Russian state-backed media and government officials pushed back on the U.K. Russia repor [...]
Our Take As countries rush to change their electoral systems to account for the coronavirus pandemic, challenges to Poland’s recent elections provide some lessons for others, Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine, Fellow and Program Manager Nad’a [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger joined CNN's "GPS" to break down how Russian and Chinese disinformation aims to undermine democracy and touts authoritarianism. [...]
In May, just days before the Polish presidential election was scheduled, the coronavirus pandemic and a government-ordered lockdown threw preparations for the election into disarray. The conservative ruling party and its opponents could not agree on [...]
This article was originally published as a GMF Transatlantic Take on July 23, 2020. With mounting evidence that Russia regularly interferes in British democracy while the U.K. government “actively avoids” investigating, the country needs a proven pl [...]
Introduction One morning in 2016, staffers from the National Security Council and the Office of the U.S. Chief Technology Officer boarded a black van outside the West Wing. They were on a field trip to the State Department led by U.S. CTO Megan Sm [...]
Overview Coronavirus coverage was again the primary through line in messaging from Russia, Iran, and China last week, with Russian state media and diplomats touting an alleged breakthrough in the country’s development of a vaccine (a claim boosted b [...]
Our Take To counter authoritarian information manipulation and control, the United States needs to support free expression and harness innovation through organizations like the Open Technology Fund, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman and K [...]
ASD Research Assistant Etienne Soula and GMF Asia researchers Franziska Luettge, Melissa Ladner, and Manisha Reuter find that from March to April 2020, the Chinese Communist Party and large Chinese companies made at least 70 prominent donations to [...]
To counter authoritarian information manipulation and control, the United States needs to support free expression and harness innovation through organizations like the Open Tech Fund, Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman and Karen Kornbluh, d [...]
The hijack of several high-profile Twitter feeds raises concern:could America's adversaries crash markets, ruin elections, or start a war with fake tweets? Director Laura Rosenberger discussed CNN to discuss these concerns. [...]
Restart, a fringe Iranian dissident group, shows how conspiracy spreads—and what that means for U.S. politics, Middle East Fellow Ariane Tabatai writes in Foreign Policy. QAnon entered the mainstream U.S. political lingo in 2017, when its followers [...]
Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina spoke to Euronews about the EU's decision to keep the United States off its list of non-EU countries whose residents are allowed to visit the bloc. "This may be unpopular but it is very difficult to dispute the fact [...]
Fellow and Program Manager Nad’a Kovalčíková joined Globsec's For Chat's Sake series to discuss new challenges and old pitfalls facing the European (dis)information sphere. [...]
Overview The United States and its allies were, once again, the primary targets of negative messaging from Russia, China, and Iran’s diplomats and state media last week. Kremlin-funded media hammered the Baltic states for a second straight week afte [...]
Our Take Beijing’s coronavirus-related assistance to Europe was less about altruism than about deflecting criticism away from the Chinese authorities' handling of the pandemic, promoting China's image as a global leader, and fostering business and [...]
Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman spoke to Newsy's Sasha Ingber about U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's assertion that users' private information from the video-sharing app could be turned over to the Chinese government. [...]
Announcements Join the German Marshall Fund on Thursday, July 9, for a panel discussion featuring Congresswoman Debra Haaland on possible strategies, policies, and challenges to eliminating all forms of discrimination and prejudice to ensure equali [...]
Overview Besides the ubiquitous coverage of the coronavirus, Russia, China, and Iran’s state media and government messengers last week hit on familiar themes for each of their respective countries. For Russia, that meant elevating claims of “Russoph [...]
Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina explained that the Open Skies Treaty matters for U.S.-Russia bilateral relations, but the security concerns that the treaty was set up to address are also European concerns. [...]
Co-director Zack Cooper argues that the U.S. and Japan need to synchronize their strategies on China to meet the challenge posed by its rise in a Sasakawa Peace Foundation policy memorandum with Jennifer Lind, Toshihiro Nakayama, and Ryo Sahashi. [...]
Digital Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer explained that for the first time with the George Floyd protests, we’ve seen China aggressively messaging on an issue that doesn’t directly relate to its own interests. China has been trying to pa [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined "2020Talks" to discuss the news that the Senate stripped a measure requiring presidential campaigns to report attempts by foreign nationals to interfere in elections from the 2021 National Defense Author [...]
Fellow and Program Manager Nad’a Kovalčíková was interviewed on Women in International Security's new podcast, "WIIS Brussels Voices," about NATO's approach toward China. Nad’a Kovalčíková and RAND's Gabrielle Tarini discussed their new policy pap [...]