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UK creates National Centre for Information Defence to counter foreign disinformation

As of September 2026: Skeptical about the centre's ability to move from detection to disruption

Britain is standing up a new state agency to fight foreign disinformation. Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced the National Centre for Information Defence on September 23 at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Updated Sep 23

Notable Quotes

'Its success will depend on how quickly it can move from identifying threats to actually disrupting them.'

from UK creates National Centre for Information Defence to counter foreign disinformation · Updated Sep 23

'If AI is industrialising deception, our response needs to be able to tell genuine from synthetic.'

from UK creates National Centre for Information Defence to counter foreign disinformation · Updated Sep 23