Politicians were bracing themselves for a tidal wave of foreign-state disinformation in the run-up to the General Election. But interference on such a scale has either gone unnoticed, or not yet happened. Has the UK catastrophised the disinformation threat? “I would say so yes,” says the Alan Turing Institute’s Sam Stockwell. “And certainly speaking to people in government, like at the NCSC [National Cyber Security Council], Cabinet Office and others, they seem to be echoing similar sentiments.”
- Sophie Church
