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The 2024 U.S. Election, Trust, and Technology: Preparing for a Perfect Storm of Threats to Democracy
Authors of a new paper identified key risks and potential threats, focusing on vulnerabilities associated with three types of assets required for fair, democratic elections: physical, human, and reputational.
A House Reunited: Prospects for Bipartisanship in a Divided Country
The research team convened workshops bringing together participants with divergent political views to identify areas of consensus across four critical policy domains: mis- and disinformation, election security, extremism, and immigration reform.
Generative AI Threats to Democracy and Potential Policy Responses
Guided U.S. Senate deliberations on regulatory initiatives to address generative AI risks to democratic institutions and information ecosystems.
Countering Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections
This RAND report, the fourth in a four-part series for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, examines how U.S. voters respond to Russian-sourced memes designed to inflame domestic divisions and to a public service announcement warning them about that kind of manipulation.
From Consensus to Conflict: Understanding Foreign Measures Targeting U.S. Elections
This RAND report places Russian information efforts in the long history of foreign interference in U.S. politics and argues for replacing the field's fragmented focus on content, networks, or consumers with a holistic approach that anticipates likely target groups and builds evidence-based preventive practices around them.
Foreign Interference in the 2020 Election: Tools for Detecting Online Election Interference
This RAND report, the second in a series on foreign election interference, maps Twitter advocacy communities around the 2020 election and identifies likely interference through trolls and superconnector accounts that—while not definitively attributable—serve Russian interests and match Moscow's playbook of sowing division, with the authors recommending continued innovation in detection methods and public surfacing of threats, targets, and tactics.