Terrific new paper on how foreign powers spend money undermining EU democracy, with a dozen citations of #CovertForeignMoney.
As with my two expert testimonies, this work was requested by @EP_Democracy, which is shoring up EU democracy while the US Senate is gridlocked over #S1.
As with my two expert testimonies, this work was requested by @EP_Democracy, which is shoring up EU democracy while the US Senate is gridlocked over #S1.
https://twitter.com/EP_Democracy/status/1406890518169239552
Here's Tom Morley and my research report on #CovertForeignMoney, which surveys more than 100 cases of malign finance, buckets the activity into the seven most common legal loopholes, and presents policy solutions we developed with almost 100 top experts.⬇️securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/covert-foreign…
Six of our proposed solutions are covered within #S1, and five are included @Sen_JoeManchin's proposed selection of voting rights protections:
✅ SHIELD Act
✅ Honest Ads Act
✅ PAID AD Act
✅ DISCLOSE Act
✅ CEOs certify no foreign donations funneled
❌ FEC structural reform
✅ SHIELD Act
✅ Honest Ads Act
✅ PAID AD Act
✅ DISCLOSE Act
✅ CEOs certify no foreign donations funneled
❌ FEC structural reform
If Senators like @Sen_JoeManchin want to not only cherry pick from #S1 but also add bipartisan provisions that would strengthen it to new autocratic threats revealed over the past 2.5 years (since #S1 was first drafted), here are 10 targeted ideas. ⬇️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/adversarial-av…
Protecting democracy from autocratic threats—at home or abroad—is not easy business. But if @EP_Democracy can show how it can be done in Brussels, we can do it too in Washington, D.C. This is no time to lose hope!
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