As the midterms approach, our tests reveal that popular chatbots challenge conspiracy theories. Still, they offer users the ability to create deceitful images, audio, and video.

As the midterms approach, our tests reveal that popular chatbots challenge conspiracy theories. Still, they offer users the ability to create deceitful images, audio, and video.

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Vulnerabilities in voting systems are real and worth fixing. At the same time, the manner in which they are used to fearmonger does not reflect the actual security of elections.  Security researchers ...

The new guidance from FEMA would require states to take various steps on elections before receiving funds. Government groups criticized the move as an overreach.

Vulnerabilities in voting systems are real and worth fixing. At the same time, the manner in which they are used to fearmonger does not reflect the actual security of elections.  Security researchers ...

Vulnerabilities in voting systems are real and worth fixing. At the same time, the manner in which they are used to fearmonger does not reflect the actual security of elections.  Security researchers ...

In a complex set of opinions today in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, the Supreme Court held that Congress did not give President Trump broad authority to impose tariffs without specific authorizat...

The administration of the 2024 U.S. election was a success story. Despite escalating cyber probes and physical attacks on election infrastructure, widespread information operations, and foreign interf...

The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

The U.S.’s withdrawal from international multistakeholder fora undermines human rights, global governance, and U.S. strategic interests.

Tim Harper, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology, says the technology has thus far been used for speed rather than to persuade voters.

Election deniers are sure that the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is proof that the Venezuelan government rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor.

As the federal government rapidly seeks to gain access to state voter data, CDT, the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology, and Protect Democracy developed an explainer that analyzes the potential harms and lasting impacts of the federal government’s effort to transform the use of sensitive information that states collect to administer elections […]

Some registered voters Texas flagged as ‘potential noncitizens’ had provided proof of citizenship

Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

[ PDF version ] A social media creator gave gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars to Donald Trump during a livestream ahead of the 2024 presidential election. A progressive influencer ranted in a v...

Congress is preparing to confirm a new leader for the federal agency charged with protecting our election systems from foreign cyberattacks. But as Sean Plankey prepares to face the Senate for confirm...

Today, CDT submitted testimony to the Connecticut Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections, urging modifications to H.B.6846 to protect users’ free expression rights. H.B.6846 would ...

Ahead of the Munich Security Conference, one crucial issue is at risk of falling by the wayside: protecting democracy from abuses of AI.

On Friday, February 14th, acting Executive Director of the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Bridget Bean issued a memo to agency staff announcing that all election security work would b...

With case studies also by: Laura Zommer and Kian Vesteinsson Introduction AI avatars delivered independent news about Venezuela’s contested election, allowing journalists to protect their identity and...

The rise of political influencers is among the latest ways that digital technology has changed how campaigns interact with voters and how voters engage with politics. CDT’s research in this area is designed to illuminate how the application of public and company policy to political influencers may affect the resilience of our democracy. To do […]

America's top vendors fear that data they submit on cyberattacks and vulnerabilities may be used against them. CISA has not provided them assurances.

Spending by groups that do not disclose their donors has increased and become harder to trace.

AP: The Republican challenger for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat has conceded last November’s election to the Democratic incumbent.  Jefferson Griffin said in a statement to The Associated Press ...

You can read the detailed analysis at this link. Here is the core holding: The court concludes that the retroactive invalidation of absentee ballots cast by overseas military and civilian voters viola...

The president had asserted authority to regulate voting that the Constitution grants explicitly to Congress and the states. Said the court: “Executive regulatory authority over federal elections does ...

The action is expected to come Thursday.

Staff departures and survey cuts are roiling the federal agency in charge of producing census results, job numbers and other key statistics as Trump officials continue to slash the U.S. government.