UK: Burnham Announces New Counter-Disinformation Agency, Seeks Global AI Standards
- On Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced the National Centre for Information Defence during his inaugural United Nations General Assembly address, tasking security chiefs with detecting and disrupting hostile state information attacks.
- Citing an "industrial-scale assault," Burnham alleged Russia interfered in the 2019 General Election and spends roughly £1.3 billion annually manipulating information to sow domestic division and erode public trust.
- Following a meeting with Donald Trump, the Prime Minister revealed a new AI defence partnership with the United States to protect critical national infrastructure and position Britain as an "honest broker" on global technology standards.
- Defence Secretary Wes Streeting stated the new centre will "mobilise trusted voices across civil society" to help the public "separate fact from fiction," while explicitly rejecting concerns the unit might police domestic political dissent.
- A 10-year plan for Britain, set for unveiling later this year, aims to reduce public vulnerability to online misinformation by boosting employment and addressing the cost-of-living crisis, positioning domestic stability as central to national resilience.
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A world where "the public find it hard to separate fact from fiction, propaganda from reality, is a dangerous place for a democracy to be," Defence Secretary Wes Streeting told BBC Radio 4. The new centre will "mobilise trusted voices across civil society", he added. Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced plans for the new National Centre for Information Defence in his speech at the UN gathering of world leaders on Tuesday. "In recent years we ha…
GREAT Britain is establishing a National Center for Information Defense (NCID) to combat disinformation and deepfake content spread by countries such as Russia, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced.
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