Report: New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN

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PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence Security chiefs is expected to set up a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia, Andy Burnham has announced, saying the government had a duty to “stem the poisonous tide” from damaging British interests. The report also notes that The National Centre for Information Defence is expected to “detect, attribute and disrupt” information attacks by foreign powers, many of which are enabled by AI , bringing together the intelligence agencies, law enforcement and social media companies.

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