Andy Burnham takes aim at Russia in UN speech in which he declared 'Britain is back' on world stage
Burnham said the new unit will counter online lies and deepfakes as the UK and US develop a security partnership to protect critical infrastructure.
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his maiden United Nations General Assembly address to reveal the Kremlin spends £1.3 billion annually on "manipulating information," pledging world leaders can "count on us."
- Russian agencies waged an "insidious campaign" using bots and fake websites, Burnham said, forging the branding of 28 British organisations and attempting to interfere with the 2019 General Election.
- To combat these threats, Burnham announced a new National Centre for Information Defence and an AI defence partnership with the United States to protect critical national infrastructure.
- Burnham also revealed a 10-year plan for Britain focused on reducing economic insecurity, arguing young people struggling with the cost of living are more vulnerable to foreign influence.
- Shifting focus to the Middle East, the Prime Minister denounced Hamas' 2023 attack on Israel as "utterly horrific" and renewed his call for a two-state solution to keep peace alive.
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British Prime Minister Andy Bernham accused Russia of large-scale information attacks and announced the establishment of a new centre to counter disinformation.
""Britain has decided to create a whole center to combat the "Russian information war."
""Britain has decided to create a whole center to combat the "Russian information war. "What an amazing, almost historical recognition: a country that has been honing the technologies of interference, propaganda, and pitting states against...
Has Burnham changed tack on Russia?
Is Britain about to re-engage with the world in a more meaningful way than any time in the past decade? After a frantic 24 hours in New York, Andy Burnham declared to the UN: “Britain is back.” But what does that mean in practice? And after a rebuke over rhetoric on Russia from Donald Trump, […]
Burnham Sets Up Ministry of Truth
No10 announced plans overnight to form a new quango – the “National Centre for Information Defence” – to regulate “narratives” about Britain. This is ostensibly because Russia interferes in online discourse… The quango will counter any “distorted and untrue narrative about Britain” and “ensure the UK has the defensive capability necessary to combat information warfare…
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