Sep 28, 2026 11 min read

The UK's Ministry of Truthiness

The country's prime minister doubled down on combating state-backed online attacks without linking it to existing rules for policing social media

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IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and I'm taking it easy ahead of a week of travel starting Oct 5. First Vilnius for the EUDisinfoLab Conference; then Brussels for this panel event (sign-up here for the final spots); and finishing up in Dublin for a workshop about this report.

Yes, you can say it: that's peak Eurotrash.

— The United Kingdom has proposed a new foreign interference unit. But unless it can shape platform oversight, it will struggle to stop state-backed attacks.

— The United States' intervention in X’s Digital Services Act appeal could expose a weakness in how the European Union enforces its digital rulebook.

— Open-weight AI models catch up with their proprietary rivals within about four months.

Let's get started:

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