On Tuesday, the UK slapped penalties against Russian media and intellectual institutions as its foreign minister cautioned Western countries to step up their efforts to counter information warfare from “malign foreign states.”
The Foundation for the Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad, which Estonian intelligence has characterized as a front for Russia’s GRU spy agency, the Center for Geopolitical Expertise, a think tank headed by far-right Russian author Aleksandr Dugin, and the microblogging Telegram channel Rybar were all subject to sanctions, according to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.
Threats, according to her, include disinformation efforts “flooding social media with generative AI and manipulated videos” and physical assaults like sabotage that are intended to weaken Western support for Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion.
In an effort to weaken support for Ukraine, British officials cited phony websites, political advertisements from the previous Moldovan election, and fake news websites that featured videos making unfounded allegations about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his spouse.
Cooper gave her address to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Locarno Treaties, a collection of accords between European countries that strengthened post-World War I European peace.
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