Join ASD tomorrow at 10 am EST/ 4 pm CET to discuss which tools are effective at combating malign information operations and which ones could potentially damage the open information space.
Co-Director @ZackCooper will testify before @CECCgov on how China uses economic coercion to silence critics and achieve its political aims globally at 10 am EST/ 4 pm CET tomorrow.
Elections Integrity Fellow @davidalanlevine will join @Int_IDEA for a panel on ways democracies can protect and support their electoral processes as they face unprecedented attacks.
At 10 am EST/ 4 pm CET @kristineberz joins former ASD expert @MattSchrader_DC for an @IRIglobal discussion on how civil society is building democratic resilience to the CCP's influence campaigns in Africa and Latin America.
Putin’s threat that Russia would hit targets in Ukraine “that we have not yet attacked” if Kyiv receives long-range missiles from the United States. Russian messengers claimed Ukraine was planning to hit Russia with U.S. weapons and threatened 🇺🇦's allies.
Food Crisis 🥕
Russian diplomats and state media continued to deny responsibility for a global food crisis that experts say was sparked by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, instead blaming the shortage on the Covid-19 pandemic, a Western media stunt, and Ukraine.
More than a year and a half after the US Capitol riot, the #January6thCommittee will hold its first public hearing this Thursday. Ahead of the hearing, ASD experts answer questions about January 6th, the Big Lie, and how they're impacting US democracy. securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/qa-with-asd-ex…
What are the facts about the 2020 election?
"The nation’s top intelligence and law enforcement agencies confirmed that there was no evidence of significant interference or election fraud in 2020 and that the results were legitimate," @davidalanlevine says.
"The Big Lie narratives have been effective b/c they are grounded in national conversations about electoral integrity that preceded the 2020 election, & that created alarm and insecurities about the single greatest process that defines American democracy—free and fair elections."
As Russia continued its assault on Ukraine last week, it also continued to spread disinformation to try to convince the world that Russia is not to blame—and China's messaging largely followed that same line.
Kremlin-linked accounts promoted new evidence to support their conspiracy around U.S.-funded bioweapon labs in Ukraine, though the number of tweets from Russian propagandists with the term “biological” dropped by 58 percent compared to the previous week.
🇨🇳China
Russian propagandists mentioned “China” or “Chinese” in more than 400 tweets as they insisted that Moscow and Beijing’s partnership was growing and amplified Chinese state messengers who criticized NATO and the United States.
Reorienting foreign aid to fight kleptocracy and strategic corruption—corrosive capital, malign influence, and election interference—calls for stronger methods that are more political and coordinated than classic development aid.
Kleptocracies don’t stop at their own borders. The same actors, networks, tactics, and resources that they wield to prevent democracy and rule of law from sprouting at home are also repurposed for foreign aggression.
While cronies and oligarchs get rich in the process, “strategic corruption” is a geopolitical weapon directed by autocratic regimes to undermine the sovereignty of other countries. Its top three manifestations vary in how directly and boldly they subvert democratic processes.
👉how inclusive the event is
👉how much the summit focuses on innovation and sharing solutions
👉how countries crafted their "commitments"
If handled carefully, the #SummitforDemocracy could tighten relationships based on shared values, but if handled poorly, it could prove divisive. "The messaging will have to be perfect if the Biden team is to walk this tightrope successfully," @ZackCooper says.
Just yesterday, the US government released its first ever strategy to combat corruption and kleptocracy. And in the last hour, Treasury has released new regulations on beneficial ownership.
Our panelists will break down what this means over the next hour!
"American law firms have really transformed into what I describe as 'first among equals,'" @cjcmichel says, referring to enablers of malign finance. "They're attempting to cloak so much of this under the guise of attorney-client privilege."