UK to Launch New Centre to Fight Fake News from Russia
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The UK will make a new centre. It will fight fake news. The centre will stop bad information from other countries.
Andy Burnham talked about this plan. He said the UK must fight disinformation. Disinformation is false information that people share on purpose.
The new group is called the National Centre for Information Defence. It will look at deepfakes too. Deepfakes are fake videos or pictures made by computers.
Burnham said countries like Russia send bad information to the UK. He called this information warfare. This means using false facts to hurt another country.
Burnham said the government must stop this 'poisonous tide'. A poisonous tide means something bad that keeps coming, like a wave.
He said this bad information can hurt British interests. British interests means things that are good and important for the UK.
Burnham talked about this plan at the UN. The UN is a big group of countries that work together.
The new centre will help keep the UK safe from lies online.
Vocabulary15 words
- disinformation
- false information that people share on purpose
- deepfakes
- fake videos or pictures made by computers
- information warfare
- using false facts to hurt another country
- UN
- a big group of countries that work together
- hostile
- not friendly; against you
- agency
- a government group that does a special job
- security
- keeping people or countries safe
- announced
- told people about something new
- government
- the group of people who run a country
- false
- not true
- interests
- things that are important and good for you
- centre
- a place or group that does one main job
- national
- about a whole country
- defence
- keeping something safe from attack
- tide
- something that keeps coming, like water at the beach
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1. Fighting disinformation and deepfakes 2. Andy Burnham 3. True
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The UK will make a new _____. It will fight fake news.
Andy Burnham talked about this plan. He said the UK must fight _____.
The new group is called the National Centre for Information _____.
It will look at _____ too. These are fake videos or pictures.
Burnham said countries like _____ send bad information to the UK.
He called this information _____. This means using false facts to hurt another country.
Burnham said the government must stop this 'poisonous _____'.
He said this bad information can hurt British _____.
Burnham talked about this plan at the _____.
The new centre will help keep the UK _____ from lies online.
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