A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Laura Thornton on US Sanctions on Georgian Judges in Civil.ge
In early April, the US State Department took an unprecedented decision against Georgia, sanctioning four Georgian judges. Civil.ge asked experts to assess the consequences of this move and whether they expect it to have a continuation. It is a ne [...]
Vassilis Ntousas in Haaretz: Will Israel Ditch Democracy? Would-be Autocrats Around the World Are Watching
Just as the Netanyahu government took its lessons from authoritarian playbooks the world over, so, too, will illiberal governments with anti-democratic aspirations take a page from Israel if the government’s attempted coup ultimately succeeds. For t [...]
Joseph Bodnar Discusses the Discord Leaks on Background Briefing
Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Navy Vet Behind Pro-Putin Site that Doctored and Spread Documents Stolen by a National Guard Airman We look into the role of a recent member of the US Navy, Sarah Bils, who runs a pro-Putin social media site D [...]
Can We Control Artificial Intelligence? Lindsay Gorman on BBC News
Last month a company in San Francisco called OpenAi released an artificial intelligence system called GPT-4 - a successor to its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. The latest version can respond to images, write captions and descriptions - processi [...]
Joseph Bodnar in Tech Policy Press: NPR is Not RT: Twitter’s New State-Affiliated Media Policy is Misleading
On April 4, Twitter placed a state-affiliated media label on NPR’s account. The label is meant to provide users with context when they see a media account that is under a state’s editorial control, like Russia’s RT and China’s People’s Daily that la [...]
ASD Research Covered Exclusively in New York Times: Chinese Officials Flock to Twitter to Defend TikTok
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 [...]
ASD Finds Chinese State-Backed Influence Campaign Defending TikTok in United States
Washington, D.C. – Just weeks ago, TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified that the app functions independently of the Chinese Communist Party. But a new analysis of data from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund’s Hamilton 2.0 da [...]
Laura Thornton Discusses the Future of Democracy on It All Intersects
On the sidelines of the Summit for Democracy 2023, It All Intersects spoke to Laura Thornton of the German Marshall Fund and Katie La Roque of Freedom House. There are serious human security concerns and humanitarian issues faced by people in democ [...]
David Salvo Discusses Russia’s Arrest of American Journalist Evan Gershkovich on Fox
David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined LiveNOW on FOX on Friday, March 31, to discuss the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Even Gershkovich in Russi [...]
What’s So Dangerous about TikTok? Lindsay Gorman on MSNBC
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 [...]
AP Exclusive on ASD Research: TikTok Propaganda Labels Fall Flat in ‘Huge Win’ for Russia
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 Discusses the US Deadline to Ban TikTok on Government Devices on NewsNation
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 [...]