DISINFO: Britain is preparing for offensive cyber warfare with Russia
SUMMARY
Britain prepares for an offensive cyber warfare with Russia. In the UK, 40,000 new jobs will be created, including in the area of cybersecurity. They will engage in hacking and troll attacks, shaping public opinion in other countries.
The main thing is to influence the enemy (Russia, Iran, and China). Farce, forgery, misinformation, provocations, coordination of raids by robots and trolls – we saw it all perfectly in the example of the Belarusian events, when faceless and nameless “Belarusians” (with Polish, Ukrainian and Baltic States’ passports) directed thousands of abusive messages to de-anonymised security officials. [We saw] waves of “disinformation” about “the regime crimes”. While all of this didn’t help to bring the next Colour Revolution to fruition, it showed the awe-inspiring scope of the possibilities of this kind of “invasion.” If 40 THOUSAND new posts are created for this kind of “specialists”, and each will manage 10-20 accounts – that’s a huge army that can form an imitation of any “public opinion” needed! Indeed, it is potentially the most powerful destabilising factor globally.
RESPONSE
Disinformation message against the UK implying it manages troll factories to manipulate public opinion.
On Thursday 19 November 2020, UK PM Boris Johnson announced to parliament the biggest programme of investment in British defence since the end of the Cold War.
Our warships and combat vehicles will carry “directed energy weapons”, destroying targets with inexhaustible lasers and for them the phrase “out of ammunition” will become redundant. Nations are racing to master this new doctrine of warfare and our investment is designed to place Britain among the winners. The returns will go far beyond our Armed Forces. From aerospace to autonomous vehicles, these technologies have a vast array of civilian applications, opening up new vistas of economic progress, creating 10,000 jobs every year – 40,000 in total - levelling up across our country and reinforcing our Union.
The total amount of 40,000 new jobs will be in various technological fields and not only IT.
General Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, explains members of the army’s 77th Brigade are “helping to quash rumours about misinformation, but also to counter disinformation”. This defence initiative is taken in the context of “political warfare” aggressively undertaken by Beijing as well as Moscow “designed to undermine cohesion” across the West.
The UK however doesn't operate an organisation comparable to the Internet Research Agency in Saint Petersburg.
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