The UK is deeply concerned by the growing threats to information integrity: UK Statement at the UN Fourth Committee
What was announced
Statement by Ed Thicknesse, UK Deputy Spokesperson, at the UN Fourth Committee on Information Integrity
Key points, in the publisher's words
- The United Kingdom thanks the Department of Global Communications, under the leadership of Under-Secretary-General Fleming, for its impactful work, including on Information Integrity.
- As UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham warned at the General Assembly, we face an “industrial-scale assault by hostile actors” on our information environment, one that corrodes trust, fuels conflict and puts lives at risk.
- And we know that artificial intelligence will multiply the threat of misinformation and disinformation: spreading it faster, targeting it more precisely and making false content harder to detect.
Figures in this announcement
Each line is quoted from the original. Figures are as the publisher stated them on the day.
- “The Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion every year manipulating information.”
- “The scale is stark: last year, 76% of peacekeepers, surveyed by the UN Department of Peace Operations, reported that misinformation and disinformation had a moderate to severe impact on their safety and security while carrying out lifesaving work.”
Who and where
People
- Andy Burnham (MP for Makerfield (Labour (Co-op))) · more news
UK bodies of power
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (UK government department) · more news
Global and regional bodies
- United Nations (Level 8 of 10) · more news
- G20 (Level 10 of 10) · more news
Constituencies of the MPs named: Makerfield.
Where this sits in the 10 levels of power
- Level 10: G7, G20, Davos and global forums · news at this level
- Level 8: The UN and global treaty bodies · news at this level
- Level 6: National government · news at this level
Topics, as GOV.UK files them: Foreign affairs.
Receipt
- Original: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-uk-is-deeply-concerned-by-the-growing-threats-to-information-integrity-uk-statement-at-the-un-fourth-committee--2
- Published 2026-11-04 15:58:42 UTC
- Read by this site 2026-11-04 16:15:08 UTC from GOV.UK
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