PM’s new anti-disinformation unit won’t target ‘domestic politcal dissent’, defence secretary says – UK politics live
Burnham said he was concerned about hostile state actors waging disinformation warfare, especially Russia. He told the UN: double quotation markIn recent years we have seen an industrial-scale assault by hostile actors on the information environment in the UK and that of many of our allies. Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people’s fears.
- ▪Burnham said he was concerned about hostile state actors waging disinformation warfare, especially Russia.
- ▪He told the UN: double quotation markIn recent years we have seen an industrial-scale assault by hostile actors on the information environment in the UK and that of many of our allies.
- ▪Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people’s fears.
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9m ago03.50 EDTGood morning. Andy Burnham delivered his speech to the United Nations in what felt like the middle of the night in UK time and he announced that he is setting up what he is calling a National Centre for Information Defence.New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UNRead moreBurnham said this was necessary because “over the last decade we have given too much ground to those who want to run a negative, corrosive narrative about life in Britain, which bears no resemblance to reality”.Over at GB News they seem a bit worried this morning about the prospect of a crackdown on corrosive narratives about Britain which bear no resemblance to reality, and it is running a story with a headline referencing “free speech fears” and a quote from a…
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