UK FM Warns of Russian Information Warfare

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00:00So two years before Locarno in 1923, the Soviet Union coined the expression desinformatia

00:07and set up their first office to deploy disinformation.

00:13But the term disinformation doesn't really begin to capture the industrial scale approach

00:17from some malign actors today.

00:20A hundred years ago, state-sponsored disruptors may have relied on expertly forged documents

00:25or carefully planted stories to manipulate public opinion.

00:30Today's technology gives them the ability to do that on steroids.

00:33This isn't about legitimate debate on contentious issues.

00:37We have wide-ranging debates with strong views on all sides on many things.

00:42But this is about state-backed organizations who seek to do us harm pursuing malign aims.

00:49So we should call out this for what it is, Russian information warfare, and we are defending ourselves.