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New UK agency will tackle ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham says

The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1, news) 2026-09-23T05:00:16.000Z Original ↗

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Excerpt as ingested

PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence Security chiefs will 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 National Centre for Information Defence will “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. Continue reading...

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Model	Provider	Stage	Score	Conf.	Latency	Prompt	When
Llama 3.3 70B	Meta	analysis	-20	70%	3161ms	v1.0.0 / m1.0.1	2026-09-23 05:41

Llama 3.3 70B · reading

New agency aims to counter AI-enabled disinformation.

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Evidence extracted

UK will create National Centre for Information Defence
Centre will tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states

The chain

SOURCE     The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1)
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DOCUMENT   9e158270-2c08-487c-b57e-ef8a7e27a810
           https://theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/23/andy-burnham-national-centre-russian-disinformation-deepfakes
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EVIDENCE   2 extracted excerpts
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MODEL RUN  1 run, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE      -20  (Adverse)
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CONFIDENCE 70%