Our Takes In an analysis of RT and Sputnik posts on Telegram and X in 2024, ASD found 308 links to mirror websites, podcasts, or proxy accounts that allowed them to circumvent EU bans and continue reaching European audiences. “A complete ban is imp [...]
Ukraine’s recent “Spider’s Web” operation surprised the Kremlin and sent shockwaves from targeted military airfields to destinations far away from the frontline. Even though the final number of destroyed and damaged military planes decreased by half [...]
That Russian state media outlets have developed varied ways to circumvent EU sanctions to continue reaching audiences in Europe is well documented. The methods often include the use of mirror sites, or identical copies of Russian state media website [...]
Dubbing it “Operation Rising Lion”, Israel has launched widespread airstrikes across Iran, hitting key nuclear facilities and killing several military commanders and intensifying decades of hostilities between Tehran and Tel Aviv. Given Iran’s long- [...]
Announcements As devastating wildfires wreaked havoc in Los Angeles earlier this year, the Kremlin leveraged the tragedy to sow division and undermine trust in relief efforts. ASD Senior Fellow Bret Schafer and Los Angeles World Affairs Council &am [...]
ASD researchers Krystyna Sikora and Peter Benzoni told Factchequeado how Russian messaging differed depending on whether the Kremlin wrote in English or Spanish in response to protests in Los Angeles, California about US President Donald Trump's imm [...]
Since the protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles began last weekend, false and misleading information about the demonstrations and the Trump administration’s crackdown have proliferated online. Though partisan actors have driven many of the [...]
Announcements Next Wednesday, June 11 and Thursday, June 12, GMF will host the 20th annual Brussels Forum. ASD’s Managing Director, David Salvo, will moderate two discussions, one about the future of American democracy and another about the challen [...]
Executive Summary Democracy in Europe is under growing pressure. Authoritarian regimes like Russia and the People’s Republic of China are conducting increasingly sophisticated foreign interference campaigns that blend information manipulation, cyb [...]
In this expert-led webinar, Bret Schafer of the Alliance for Securing Democracy joined Dr. Robert English, Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, to explore how foreign influence operations are evolv [...]