U.S. Elections 2024
The Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) of the Atlantic Council is dedicated to identifying foreign malign influence and information manipulation targeting the 2024 U.S. election. On this page, you will find our compiled research and reporting on 2024 U.S. election threats, as well as links to our historical U.S. case studies. The DFRLab’s nonpartisan election coverage complements that of the wider Atlantic Council, whose compiled commentary and analysis you can find at Elections 2024: America’s role in the world.
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Latest Research
AI tools used in Kenya to discredit protesters and allege Russian connections
Partnering to counter information manipulation in South Caucasus and Eastern Europe
In It to Win It: Understanding Cyber Policy through a Simulated Crisis
Oil laundering at sea: defeating Russia’s shadow fleet in the Mediterranean
The Eight Body Problem: Exploring the Implications of Salt Typhoon
Inauthentic X accounts targeted American and Canadian politicians amid student protests
How inauthentic accounts exploit Telegram comments to spread anti-Ukrainian narratives
Foreign narratives proliferate among Japanese X communities
Rise of unknown Romanian presidential candidate preceded by Telegram and TikTok engagement spikes
In-Depth Reports
Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Mapping the Global Spyware Market and its Threats to National Security and Human Rights
Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them
User in the Middle: An Interoperability and Security Guide for Policymakers
“Reasonable” Cybersecurity in Forty-Seven Cases: The Federal Trade Commission’s Enforcement Actions Against Unfair and Deceptive Cyber Practices
Another battlefield: Telegram as a digital front in Russia’s war against Ukraine
Markets Matter: A Glance into the Spyware Industry
Hacking with AI
TikTok: Hate the Game, Not the Player
Design Questions in the Software Liability Debate
Projects
Russian War Report
As Russia’s aggression in Europe heats up, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is keeping a close eye on Moscow’s movements across the military, cyber, and information domains.
Foreign Interference Attribution Tracker
The DFRLab’s Foreign Interference Attribution Tracker (FIAT) is an interactive, open-source database that captures allegations of foreign interference relevant to the 2024 election. This tool assesses the credibility, bias, evidence, transparency, and impact of each claim.
Election Official Handbook: Preparing for Election Day Misinformation
As part of the Election Integrity Partnership, the DFRLab has analyzed roughly four hundred cases of election-related dis- and misinformation on social media. This memo gathers the findings and issues recommendations for US election officials: they must prepare for viral falsehoods online that persist for weeks.
Dichotomies of Disinformation
Via the DFRLab’s Github: This project isolates “political disinformation campaigns.” Dichotomies of Disinformation proposes and tests a classification system built on 150 variable options. Our intent is to establish a replicable, extensible system by which widely disparate disinformation campaigns can be categorized and compared.
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