By Kiran Stacey
Publication Date: 2025-12-08 22:30:00
Foreign countries are flooding social media with AI-manipulated videos to undermine Western support for Ukraine, Yvette Cooper warns on Tuesday.
Britain’s foreign secretary will call on other countries to help Britain combat what she calls “information warfare” as officials warn that Russia is using fake documents and deepfake material to advance its geopolitical goals.
The Foreign Office has previously warned that Russian authorities are running a vast disinformation network called Doppelgänger, which has spread false rumors about issues such as the health of the Princess of Wales and Western funding of Israel.
Cooper will say: “Across Europe we are witnessing an escalation of hybrid threats – from physical to cyber – aimed at weakening critical national infrastructure, undermining our interests and interfering in our democracies, all to the benefit of malign foreign states.”
The speech – on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Locarno Treaties, which were signed after the first…
