Join ASD tomorrow as we set the stage for Biden's #SummitforDemocracy with events on:

💻 foreign information operations
💵 enablers of malign finance
🗳️ securing democratic elections
🇨🇳 China's economic coercion

Details 👇🧵

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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.

Ft. @ahonen_anneli @pumashen @LeeFosterIntel @noUpside

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Tune in tomorrow at 1 pm EST/ 7 pm CET as @WillFitzgibbon, @spfreedberg, Neil Jeans, @LaksKumar_GFI, @cjcmichel, and @JoshRudes explain how democracies can build resilience to enablers of malign finance.

RSVP👉bit.ly/3cKx8HX

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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.

📺👉cecc.gov/events/hearing… Image
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.

📅Tomorrow at 11 am EST/ 5 pm CET. bit.ly/3lAxVQs

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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.

👉bit.ly/3rJI0OS

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7 Dec
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!
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7 Dec
🚨Starting soon! 🚨

Join us at 10 am EST/ 4pm CET for a discussion on how democracies can combat foreign information operations with @ahonen_anneli, @pumashen, @LeeFosterIntel, @noUpside, and Bret Schafer.

Register👉bit.ly/3nK5VeA Image
What has Taiwan done to effectively push back against info manipulation?

"Taiwan has been a testing ground for CCP information operations since 1949, so it's fair to say we're quite experienced," @pumashen says. He notes the importance of transparency in democratic responses. Image
"Keeping the Kremlin accountable for their actions publicly has been a strong signal" that the EU is does not condone Russian info ops, @ahonen_anneli says. The EU's cyber sanctions toolbox can be implemented more widely to further deter these malign operations, she explains. Image
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14 Oct
How do we make our societies more resilient to hybrid threats? We need a whole-of-society approach, @HybridCoE Director Teija Tiilikainen says.
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13 Oct
What were Russia, China, and Iran's state-backed messengers talking about this week?

A 🧵on the latest findings from our Hamilton 2.0 Dashboard.
securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/hamilton-topli…
Russian diplomats and state-controlled media used surging gas prices in Europe to argue that Moscow’s #NordStream2 pipeline could stabilize the gas market. ImageImage
Kremlin-backed media highlighted critiques of Facebook while the social media platform struggled to get back online after an hours-long crash. ImageImage
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20 Jul
What messages did Russia, Turkey, China, and Iran spread in Germany in June? @kristineberz, @blutguth, and David Metzger explain in their latest analysis of data from our 2021 German Elections Dashboard. securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/between-messag…
Russian state-backed media covered the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt. These tweets
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👉attempted to stoke East-West divisions
👉echoed AfD supporters' claims of election fraud
Russian state-backed media also
👉criticized the 3 chancellor candidates, especially Green candidate Annalena Baerbock
👉negatively portrayed LBGTQ+ issues
👉criticized NATO's policies towards Ukraine
👉focused on progress and praise for Nord Stream 2
Read 7 tweets
14 Jun
President Biden’s trip to showcase democracies' ability to meet challenges and deter threats culminates with a one-on-one meeting with Putin on Wednesday. What can Biden hope to achieve in this sit down? ASD experts weigh in.
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"Can the two presidents actually put aside a laundry list of deep grievances to move the needle on tackling climate change? It may be difficult to even get that far on the meeting’s agenda," Deputy Director David Salvo writes.
More than a dozen significant cyber incidents have been linked to Russia-based groups in the past 6 months. "It is obvious that Putin has no intention of stifling a growing segment of the Russian economy that is both highly-skilled and highly-profitable," @TypeMRT says.
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