🗳️ David Levine comments on Arizona election workers' efforts to prepare for artificial intelligence threats ahead of the 2024 🇺🇸 elections. 👇

It's great to see Arizona election workers doing trainings on how to identify, prepare for, and respond to AI Threats ahead of #election2024 . For a litany of reasons, more states should follow. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… 🧵

On #EuropeDay , a month away from the European Parliament elections, 🇪🇺 needs a bloc-wide response to foreign interference.

Vassilis Ntousas and Etienne Soula write about the 'cash-for-influence, election interference, and espionage cases' afflicting Europe. 👇
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🇪🇺 'Europe must recognize the interference threat for what it is and act accordingly.'

Etienne Soula and Vassilis Ntousas write about the recent foreign interference scandals that have emerged in the EU ahead of upcoming European Parliament elections. 👇

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🚨 ICYMI: Despite varying motivations for entering the fray, 🇨🇳, 🇷🇺, and 🇮🇷 all benefit from online campaigns that denigrate global perceptions of 🇺🇸 over protests at American colleges, Bret Schafer explained to Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu The New York Times. 👇

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'State media in Iran...has posted more about the protests than 🇷🇺 or 🇨🇳 and amplified criticism of the police response from 🇺🇸 commentators.'

Bret Schafer spoke to Steven Lee Myers Tiffany Hsu The New York Times about foreign state media coverage of 🇺🇸 protests. 👇

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The EU's decision to investigate Meta before the June parliamentary elections could have enormous ramifications. A forceful government response remains perhaps the most important factor in preventing and mitigating foreign interference attacks.

🇷🇺's influence campaigns have seized on 🇺🇸 divisions over the Israel-Hamas war to 'pivot away from trying to message around their own war' in Ukraine and 'to undermine the West', Bret Schafer told Dan De Luce.

Read more NBC News 👇

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🗳️ In 2024, nearly half of the world’s population is heading to the polls.

Alliance for Securing Democracy experts offer snapshots of best practices for building resilience against election influence adopted by 5️⃣ European countries. bit.ly/3JCA0qx

Tomorrow! Join International IDEA and Embassy of Canada US for a discussion on the future of #AI in global elections with leading experts from National Democratic Institute Alliance for Securing Democracy Microsoft International IDEA and Election Asst. Comm..
🗓️ 2 May 2024
🕑 9:00 - 10:30 EDT
📍In person / Online

More information ⬇️
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The danger of AI is not just that it can make us believe 'things that are not real, it’s that it can get us to start doubting the things that are real'.

Bret Schafer covers AI's impact on the information space in this presentation German Marshall Fund #BrusselsForum .

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#AI is continuously changing electoral landscapes across the world, including the US, and I'm excited to join International IDEA and Embassy of Canada US for what promises to be an interesting and timely conversation on the future of AI and #elections . 1/ idea.int/events/ai-elec…

🇪🇺 ICYMI: European countries should learn from each others' strategies to counter election influence operations.

ASD and IFES experts David Levine, Krysia Sikora , Daria Azariev North, and Nikoleta Diossy explain why in their new report. 👇

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AI has once again presented 'fundamental questions' about technology and information.

'Can democracies flourish' amid a flurry of competing information? peter pomerantsev asks during a German Marshall Fund #BrusselsForum 2024 conversation about AI and information.

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🗳️ Beyond 'poll worker recruitment and awareness-raising', young, tech-savvy Americans should be equipped with hands-on experience and training in election security matters, David Levine and Massimiliano (Max) Albanese | 🇮🇹 🇺🇸 write.

Read more The Fulcrum 👇
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The rise of AI has ushered in 'a democratization of disinformation. You do not need a nation-state budget to run a wide-scale information campaign', Bret Schafer said at German Marshall Fund #BrusselsForum 2024.

Watch the conversation on AI and disinformation here 👇
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#Elections continue to be under threat across #Europe . The hard-won lessons from countries on frontlines underscore the importance of a holistic, coordinated response to disinformation

Thrilled to share the paper I co-authored w/ Alliance for Securing Democracy on how we can protect democracy!

Young people could be key to helping secure #Election2024 and future elections. Want to know how? Check out this The Fulcrum piece published earlier today by me and George Mason University's Massimiliano (Max) Albanese | 🇮🇹 🇺🇸👇thefulcrum.us/media-technolo…

🗳️ A new report from Alliance for Securing Democracy & IFES reviews best practices for building resilience against election influence operations adopted by five different European countries since the last election in 2019. bit.ly/3JCA0qx

'We have to plan even better for our communications, which isn't something that elections administrators across the globe have had to deal with in the past.'

Adrian Fontes said during a panel discussion during German Marshall Fund #BrusselsForum . 👇

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