MPs Call to Suspend and Investigate ‘Creeping Censorship’ of Counter Disinformation Unit

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas said that “we cannot tolerate new forms of surveillance” in a letter criticising the secretive COVID-19 unit.

A woman uses her computer keyboard to type while surfing the internet in North Vancouver, B.C., on Dec., 19, 2012. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

A cross-party group of MPs have said that the UK government’s Counter Disinformation Unit, which was used to monitor lockdown critics, should be suspended and subject to a “full investigation.”

Conservative MP David Davis, Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Green Party leader Caroline Lucas have written to Michelle Donelan, the secretary of state for Digital, Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), regarding the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU).