A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
David Levine Discusses the 5 Ps of Election Administration on Dead Men Don’t Vote
David Levine is an experienced elections professional with a wide range of expertise in election security, administration, and policy. He currently serves as the Election Integrity Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a nonpartisan initi [...]
Lawmakers Grill TikTok CEO | Lindsay Gorman on Scripps News
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Scripps News on Thursday, March 23, to discuss the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s reaction to TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s testimony. [...]
Vassilis Ntousas in the European Parliament Former Members’ Association Bulletin: A New Push to Securing Democracy
Democracies across all continents are under immense pressure. In the past two decades, democratic backsliding has shifted from being a worrying yet peripheral factor to being a defining element of modern politics. The alarming signs, the exact mech [...]
Lindsay Gorman on Inside Sources: Biden Administration Demands a Forced Sale of TikTok
The Biden administration is giving TikTok an ultimatum. The Chinese owners of the app must sell their stake in the company, or we will ban the app in the United States. Former Biden administration adviser Lindsay Gorman with the Alliance for Secu [...]
UK Government Bans TikTok | ASD’s Lindsay Gorman on BBC World News
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined BBC World News on Thursday, March 16, 2023 to discuss the United Kingdom’s decision to ban TikTok on government devices. The UK ban follows [...]
Laura Thornton in Foreign Policy: Russia Is Furious at Georgia’s Protesters
Moscow issues ominous threats as Georgians fight for their imperiled democracy. Last week, the Georgian parliament, led by the Georgian Dream (GD) party, advanced new legislation that would label civil society and media organizations that receive [...]
Laura Thornton on DW News: Russia ‘Watching with Concern’ after Georgia Drops ‘Foreign Agent’ Bill
Senior Vice President of Democracy Laura Thornton joined DW News to discuss Georgia's "foreign agents" law and the protests that led parliament to drop it. [...]
Laura Thornton in Caucasian Journal: Georgia’s Ruling Party Withdraws ‘Foreign Agents’ Law
Following the Georgian parliament’s passage [of the "foreign agents" law], I was once again inspired by the Georgian people who took to the street to peacefully protest. As you know well, security agents have violently attacked them. This is sadly n [...]
David Salvo Discusses Biden’s Ukraine Trip on Background Briefing
Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Biden's Meeting With the Bucharest 9 Who Expressed Unanimous Solidarity With Ukraine In the short term, the war should be seen as a Ukrainian victory and a Russian blunder, but Kyiv will need continued Western [...]
China’s Top Diplomat Meets with Putin | ASD’s Lindsay Gorman on BBC World News
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined BBC World News on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 to discuss the meeting between Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, and Russian President Vladimir [...]
Putin Promised Not to Kill Ukraine’s Zelensky | ASD’s David Salvo on Scripps News
David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined Scripps News on Sunday, February 5, 2023 to discuss the latest updates on Russia’s war in Ukraine. [...]
FACT SHEET: Hamilton 68 Dashboard (2017-2018)
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) began hosting the Hamilton 68 dashboard in August 2017 to track Russian influence operations on Twitter. By analyzing a dynamic list of more than 600 Twitter accounts linked, wittingly or unwittingly, to Rus [...]