{"id":6237,"date":"2026-01-25T19:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6237"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:58:22","slug":"uk-politics-constantly-suffering-from-online-disinformation-says-labour-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/25\/uk-politics-constantly-suffering-from-online-disinformation-says-labour-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"UK politics \u2018constantly suffering\u2019 from online disinformation, says Labour MP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A senior Labour MP has warned that British democracy is under constant attack from online disinformation campaigns orchestrated by both state and non-state actors. The Foreign Affairs Select Committee highlighted the dangers of bot farms and biased algorithms that amplify false narratives, such as describing UK cities as lawless. The committee is calling on tech giants like X, Meta, and TikTok to provide evidence regarding their efforts to combat these digital threats to the political system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 18, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jan\/18\/uk-politics-constantly-suffering-from-online-disinformation-says-labour-mp-emily-thornberry\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Labour MP has warned that British democracy is under constant attack from online disinformation campaigns orchestrated by both state and non-state actors. The Foreign Affairs Select Committee highlighted the dangers of bot farms and biased algorithms that amplify false narratives, such as describing UK cities as lawless. The committee is calling on tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}