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The plan, which puts the international broadcaster on par with MoD\u2019s freshly revamped psy-warfare 77 Brigade, was given<\/a>\u00a0by the cabinet to MPs in response to a July House of Commons Defence Committee inquiry called \u201cRussia: Implications for UK Defence and Security.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the concerns voiced by the lawmakers was that \u201cthat the UK and NATO do not yet have a fully-developed strategy to counter Russian propaganda and disinformation effectively.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe understand that efforts are underway in NATO to develop this,<\/em>\u201d the report said. \u201cIn that respect, the establishment of 77 Brigade by the MoD is a welcome step in the right direction. However, the budget available to Russia means that NATO must substantially increase the level of resources which member states commit to this work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The government\u2019s response was that, along with other NATO allies, it will step up strategic communications.<\/p>\n \u201cThe UK is also encouraging a more joined-up approach to Alliance communications, including greater alignment between policy and communications divisions. We are encouraging NATO to adopt a communication model that more closely resembles the UK\u2019s; we hope this will lead to further development of strategies to counter Russian propaganda \u2013 with more emphasis on long-term objectives, target audiences and evaluation,<\/em>\u201d the response read.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Another venue is, as the government described it, to \u201cpromote access to reliable information, especially in the Russian language.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis includes additional funding for the BBC World Service to enhance its Russian language output,\u201d it said. \u201cIn partnership with allies, we are developing projects to improve media plurality and access to balanced and objective Russian-language reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n Western governments repeatedly voiced discontent over the fact that Russian media outlets, including RT, were challenging the prevailing media narrative. Historically, on several occasions, parts of the western media have misled the public, most notably in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n A comprehensive damning report published in UK this year concluded that the decision to topple Saddam Hussein was taken when non-military options were not exhausted and based on exaggerated claims of the threat he posed while underestimating the cost of war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Among the measures the British government has proposed to counter alleged Russian \u2018propaganda and disinformation\u2019 is the provision of extra funding to BBC World Service to produce more content in Russian. Read more The plan, which puts the international broadcaster on par with MoD\u2019s freshly revamped psy-warfare 77 Brigade, was given\u00a0by the cabinet to MPs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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