UK prime minister accuses Russia of running a disinformation campaign [SOUND]

# UK prime minister Andy Burnham accused Russia of information warfare and attempting to interfere in his country’s 2019 election. In his first major international speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he hit out at what he called Moscow’s attempts to spread lies and disinformation. Burnham claimed the Kremlin spends around 28-billion-rand each year on manipulating information. To counter this, Burnham announced a new National Centre for Information Defence to detect and disrupt artificial intelligence-enabled disinformation campaigns by hostile states: