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Oct 31, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Krystyna Sikora |Etienne Soula |Vassilis Ntousas
Americans vote in this year’s consequential presidential election in an environment marked by growing threats, including the weaponization of artificial intelligence (AI), influence campaigns run by foreign authoritarian adversaries, and false election narratives that threaten to undermine faith in the US election system.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer
This is the first in a series of reports covering online conversations related to the security and administration of the 2024 US elections. These reports are meant to highlight key narrative trends in the election space, including but not limited to online conversations about election integrity and voter fraud. Each report will provide an overview of online conversations about the administration of US elections, along with in-depth analyses of relevant topics and themes.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Krystyna Sikora |Peter Benzoni
IntroductionIn the days after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a torrent of false and misleading information about the attack flooded social media.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Nicolaus Copernicus |Bret Schafer |Kamila Koronska |Lukrecija Neverovskaja
Researchers from two European universities, with support from ASD have uncovered evidence that a small network of Polish news blogs—Lega Artis, News na Dzis, and Daily Blitz—may serve as pathways for Russian state media and pro-Kremlin media to reach Polish audiences.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
rb.gy | Bret Schafer |David Salvo
Tuesday, February 27, 202410:00 – 11:00am ET1600 – 1700 CETIn 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 Beijing’s coordination in creating narratives that benefit their interests and worldviews.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |David Salvo
Tuesday, February 27, 202410:00 – 11:00am ET1600 – 1700 CETIn 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 Beijing’s coordination in creating narratives that benefit their interests and worldviews.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Vassilis Ntousas |Etienne Soula |Rachael Wilson
This year’s US presidential primaries will determine who will lead the country come January 2025 amid growing autocratic threats to American democracy. Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund are monitoring and analyzing these threats which are arising from emerging technology to artificial intelligence, and impacting election officials, infrastructure, and more.
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Jan 11, 2024 | securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Vassilis Ntousas |Etienne Soula |Rachael Wilson
This year’s US presidential primaries will determine who will lead the country come January 2025 amid growing autocratic threats to American democracy. Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund are monitoring and analyzing these threats which are arising from emerging technology to artificial intelligence, and impacting election officials, infrastructure, and more.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Etienne Soula |Joseph Bodnar |Nathan Kohlenberg
The intensification of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks has forced liberal democracies to carefully craft a message that balances their support for Israel with growing domestic criticism over civilian casualties and concerns about unrest at home—including but not limited to the potential risk of terrorism.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Peter Benzoni |Joseph Bodnar
Since 2019, the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF has operated the Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, an online tool to track messaging originating from Chinese, Iranian, and Russian state media and government officials. In its time, the dashboard collected several million data points, mostly but not exclusively from Twitter (now X).
