A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
How Every Campaign Will Have a Troll Farm of Its Own
Russia started it, but politicians will proliferate it. Online trolling could become a service for campaigns everywhere... Mark Zuckerberg heads to the nation’s capital this week for some lashings from America’s legislators. On Tuesday, he’ll appea [...]
The Interference Operations from Putin’s Kremlin and Xi’s Communist Party: Forging a Joint Response
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger and JG Global Founder John Garnaut published an article in the Asan Forum discussing interference operations from Russia and China. Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin are sy [...]
Steps Congress Can Take to Defend America against Foreign Influence Operations
ASD Co-Directors Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger discuss the five steps Congress can take to defend America against foreign influence. Last week, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster conceded that, “We have failed to impose sufficient costs… [on Russia for the K [...]
For Russia, Trump Was a Vehicle, Not a Target
Mr. Watts testified on March 30, 2017, at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing and presented a statement, “Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns.” Last week, in a sentencing memorandum for the lawy [...]
The Russian Bots Are Coming. This Bipartisan Duo Is On It.
One of the goals of the Kremlin’s social media disruption campaign, Special Counsel Robert Mueller unequivocally demonstrated in his recent indictment of 13 Russians, was to elect Donald Trump. Another, according to the indictment, was even simpler: [...]
How Silicon Valley Can Protect U.S. Democracy
Before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the idea of turning civilian airplanes into weapons was inconceivable to most. And until it was discovered that Russian President Vladimir Putin had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, it was uni [...]
Banning Bots, Punishing Troll Farmers, and Hardening Voting Machines: Here’s How to Stop Russia From Wrecking Election 2018
The warnings are loud, clear, and unambiguous. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told us last week that Russia is attempting to “degrade our democratic values and weaken our alliances.” A few days later, after the Mueller indictment came d [...]
Russia’s Disinformation Offensive
Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger discuss their research on Russia's campaign to strategically deceive public opinion, and their urgent recommendation that a bipartisan effort be mounted to combat Putin’s disinformation offensive on Foreign Policy, ho [...]
Shredding the Putin Playbook
The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 presidential election should have served as a wake-up call for Americans that something we took for granted—democracy—is vulnerable to attack by foreign adversaries in new and powerful ways. Instead, we’re mire [...]
Shining More Light Every Day on Russia’s Political Interference
One year after the 2016 presidential election, more facts about Russia’s efforts to undermine American democracy are finally beginning to emerge. The recent congressional hearings on the Russian government’s use of tech platforms to interfere in U.S [...]
CNN LIVE: North Korea Accuses U.S. of Practicing Sneak Attack
Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy speaks with CNN on the growing tension between North Korea and the United States. [...]
LIVE WUSA9: This Website Tracks Fake Russian News in Real Time—And You Can, Too
David Salvo of the Alliance for Securing Democracy speaks to WUSA9 on the Hamilton 68 Dashboard, an online tool that monitors more than 600 Russian Twitter accounts. [...]