The UK government has revealed that it is setting up a unit tasked with combatting disinformation from Moscow for the first since the end of the Cold War.
The new Russia-Ukraine Government Information Cell (GIC) will expose and fight “false information,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told The Mail on Sunday.
“At the end of the Cold War we disbanded our information unit, but the Russians didn’t disband theirs, so we faced years and years of Russian disinformation.”
Home Secretary Priti Patel made a similar point in an op-ed in The Telegraph, writing that the government has brought together experts to “tackle Russian information aggression targeted at the UK.”