Foreign Influence Operations and American Elections: Risks and Responses
Freedom House joins the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute’s Center for Civility and Democracy for a discussion on foreign influence threats to US electoral process and what concrete actions our leaders can take to counter false and misleading information in the lead-up to November and beyond.
Date
July 25, 2024 – 2:30PM
– 4:00PM EDT
Location
Ronald Reagan Institute
850 16th St. NW, Washington DC
(Virtual attendence is also available)
Foreign influence operations by actors linked to authoritarian regimes like Russia and China pose a threat to U.S. security and democracy globally. Ahead of the 2024 U.S. elections, malign influence operations have the potential to stoke and spread confusion, division, and violence that risk interference with America’s free and open democratic process. This event will gather policymakers and experts for a discussion of foreign influence threats to our electoral process and what concrete actions our leaders can take to counter false and misleading information in the lead-up to November and beyond.
The program will feature a conversation with Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and Representative Brad Wenstrup, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's Subcommittee on Oversight, moderated by Fred Ryan, chairman of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute’s Board of Trustees. The event will continue with a panel of experts, including Kat Duffy of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Lindsay Hundley of Meta, Kian Vesteinsson of Freedom House, and Gavin Wilde of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, moderated by Mark de la Iglesia, Director for U.S. Democracy at Freedom House.
