{"id":1323,"date":"2025-03-14T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:55:18","slug":"nato-allies-agree-common-approach-to-counter-information-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"NATO Allies agree common approach to counter information threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"introtxt\">Allied Defence Ministers endorsed NATO\u2019s Approach to Counter Information Threats. This will strengthen the Alliance by establishing a well-connected and interoperable approach to identify, prevent and respond effectively to information threats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"box box-media box-media--stretched\">The Alliance continues to face growing hybrid threats from state and non-state actors who frequently target our values and undermine our security, not least through manipulation of the information environment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"box box-media box-media--stretched\">NATO\u2019s approach focuses on information threats: intentional, harmful, manipulative and coordinated activities, which routinely include information manipulation and interference by foreign actors, and information operations. These activities are used to create confusion, sow division, destabilise societies, influence perceptions and behaviours, and ultimately have a negative impact on NATO, Allies and partners.<\/div>\n<div class=\"box box-media box-media--stretched\">Even though information threats are not a new danger to the Alliance, new challenges are on the rise. In light of rapidly emerging technologies, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the scale and sophistication of tactics, techniques and procedures have reached unprecedented levels, significantly amplifying their use and impact.<\/div>\n<div class=\"box box-media box-media--stretched\">Through this common approach, NATO further strengthens its capability to understand, prevent, contain and mitigate, and recover from information threats, and reinforces its commitment to doing so in full respect of fundamental rights, including freedom of expression.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The public summary of NATO\u2019s Approach to Counter Information Threats is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/official_texts_231905.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allied Defence Ministers endorsed NATO\u2019s Approach to Counter Information Threats. This will strengthen the Alliance by establishing a well-connected and interoperable approach to identify, prevent and respond effectively to information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[232,26],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nato","tag-counter-information-threats","tag-nato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NATO-counter-information-threats.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}