The text of the following statement was released by the
Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom,
and Canada on coordinated efforts to counter foreign state
information manipulation.
The United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada remain deeply
concerned about foreign information manipulation and other
actions designed to undermine our democracies and human rights
globally.
Foreign information manipulation is a national security threat
that undermines democratic values, human rights, governmental
processes, and political stability. Given the borderless nature
of information manipulation, we call on all like-minded countries
committed to the rules-based order to work together to identify
and counter this threat. Securing the integrity of the global
information ecosystem is central to popular confidence in
governance institutions and processes, trust in elected leaders,
and the preservation of democracy.
The present international system, based on international law and
respect for territorial boundaries, is competing with an
alternate vision defined by autocratic impunity. This alternate
vision deploys foreign malign influence aimed at undermining our
safety and security, with disregard for universal human rights
and the rule of law.
The time is now for a collective approach to the foreign
information manipulation threat that builds a coalition of
like-minded countries committed to strengthening resilience and
response to information manipulation. We can do this through
coordinated, whole of society solutions that work with experts,
independent media and multilateral organizations, to address
these transnational security threats.
That is why today, the United States, the United Kingdom, and
Canada jointly endorse the Framework
to Counter Foreign State Information Manipulation, which
affirms our shared understanding of the threat and offers a
holistic view of how to address the foreign information
manipulation challenge. It aims to standardize our approach to
this problem and build interoperable and complementary systems to
resist this threat as technologies continue to emerge and adapt.
The Framework complements the high-level international
commitments from the Global
Declaration on Information Integrity Online and
reinforces our joint efforts and commitment to protect and
promote information integrity.
The United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada intend to
collaborate on building partner countries’ resilience to foreign
information manipulation by advancing the Framework’s Key Action
Areas: National Strategies and Policies; Governance Structures
and Institutions; Capacity; Civil Society, Independent Media, and
Academia; and Multilateral Engagement.
The United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada intend to
jointly work on operationalizing relevant Key Action Areas
through new and existing multilateral mechanisms, such as
the G7 Rapid
Response Mechanism, and in coordination with other likeminded
partners and multilateral organizations.
