Announcements Omelas and ASD released a new dashboard—the second in a series of dashboards dedicated to monitoring information environments ahead of key global elections in 2024—to track publicly available information about the upcoming Russian pre [...]
Introduction On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, US President Joe Biden’s administration issued an executive order that directs the Departments of Justice (DOJ), Homeland Security, Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense, and Veteran Affairs to take a [...]
Announcements Join ASD’s David Salvo and Bret Schafer for an online event with Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to discuss increasing overlap in the information space between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia. Regist [...]
“Look up SMARTMATIC and tweet me what you think?” tweeted Rudy Guiliani, then-US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, in the weeks after the 2020 US presidential election. It was part of a broader campaign to delegitimize the election by castin [...]
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 10:00 - 11:00am ET 1600 - 1700 CET In the two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Russia’s and the People’s Republic of China’s use of disinformation has increased along with Moscow and Beijin [...]
Announcements ASD, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, is launching two initiatives to strengthen democratic resilience worldwide: one to foster the adoption of content authenticity technologies in newsrooms to address the proliferation [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo discusses the role of foreign interference in Russia's foreign policy strategy at an event co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council, Center for European Policy Analysis, the McCain Institute, the German Marshall Fund, th [...]
Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Communications and Technology Subcommittee about how the United States can secure its communications networks from foreign adversari [...]
While the news cycle is still abuzz with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, flying under the radar are new details about Russian intelligence’s role in cultivating ties with political parties in Euro [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is launching two initiatives to strengthen global democratic practices, promote good governance, and support free and fair elections. The projects will [...]
Our Takes Artificial Intelligence (AI) will magnify and ease malign actors’ abilities to push false election narratives and breach electoral systems. Election workers should be equipped to counter these threats ahead of 2024. Senior Fellows Lindsay [...]
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 [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States released “The ASD AI Election Security Handbook” as a resource for elections officials responding to unprecedented threats to election security su [...]
Taiwan recently reaffirmed the strength of its democracy by successfully administering its elections last month in defiance of threats from China and elsewhere, but those threats and others created an emphasis on election security that continues to [...]
In 2024, more voters will head to the polls than ever before across the world and in the United States. However, elections by themselves do not guarantee democracy, and as the 2024 presidential elections heats up, it’s important that the U.S. consid [...]
My travels to South Korea as part of a “Next Generation Leaders” delegation, sponsored by the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and the Korea Foundation, highlighted the robustness of the US-South Korean alliance and the challenges facing demo [...]
Hamilton 2.0 Analysis Russian diplomats and state media focused on two main narratives this week: Civil War in the United States: Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev created a stir last week with a post that asserted that the ongoing dispute [...]