Joseph Bodnar

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.

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).

Sep 18, 2023 | securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Joseph Bodnar

Meta’s recent report on the company’s takedown of a Chinese government information campaign that was the “largest cross-platform operation” ever, and of several smaller influence campaigns that originated in Turkey, Iran, and Russia, named hundreds of fake domains and accounts scattered across 16 social media platforms. One week after the report’s release, GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy team reviewed those and found that 11 platforms did not remove any of them.

Sep 7, 2023 | securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Joseph Bodnar |Louis Savoia

All technology platforms see data as an asset. But Chinese platforms snoop on users more brazenly, and that data could fuel China’s campaign for global technology leadership, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman told DW News. We’re on Threads! Follow us @securedemocracy for more content from ASD at GMF experts. The Securing Democracy Dispatch ends its Q&A series this week by sitting down with Josh Rudolph, senior fellow for malign finance and corruption at ASD at GMF.

Aug 10, 2023 | securingdemocracy.gmfus.org | Bret Schafer |Joseph Bodnar

Over the course of the war in Ukraine, a loose network of Russian military bloggers on Telegram have provided a fervently nationalistic, though at times highly critical, view of Russia’s “special military operation”.