Committee publication · Correspondence · 3 February 2026

Correspondence from the Director of UK Public Policy at Meta relating to disinformation, dated 16 January 2026

Inquiry: Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy

Summary

Meta's UK Public Policy Director declines to provide a witness for the Foreign Affairs Committee's 2 February oral evidence session on foreign information manipulation and interference, but offers a written submission instead. Meta outlines its approach to detecting and removing coordinated inauthentic behaviour, citing 40,000 staff devoted to safety and security, $30 billion invested over a decade, and removal of over 250 coordinated inauthentic networks globally.

Key findings

Meta declines to provide an oral witness for the 2 February public evidence session on foreign information manipulation and interference
Meta reports approximately 40,000 staff working on safety and security and $30 billion invested over the past decade in teams and technology
Meta claims to have removed more than 250 coordinated inauthentic networks globally to date
Meta publishes quarterly Adversarial Threat Reports documenting enforcement actions against coordinated inauthentic behaviour operations worldwide
Meta cites sensitivity of security operations as reason for limiting written information to what can be shared in the public domain

Tone

Procedural

Topics

disinformationforeign-interferencesocial-media-regulationcybersecurity

Key actors

Dame Emily Thornberry MP, Rebecca Stimson, Meta, Foreign Affairs Committee

Notable line

“… we have removed more than 250 coordinated inauthentic networks globally. Working with our industry peers …”

Key Quotes

“… we take these issues extremely seriously and have developed comprehensive programmes to detect, disrupt and remove coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) from our platforms.”
— Rebecca Stimson, Director of UK Public Policy, Meta · Explaining Meta's commitment despite declining to provide an oral witness

“… we have around 40,000 people working on safety and security, and have invested $30 billion in teams and technology over the past decade.”
— Rebecca Stimson, Director of UK Public Policy, Meta · Detailing Meta's investment in countering disinformation

“We know that no single company can solve various global threats alone, which is why we share findings about threats we detect with our industry peers and security researchers to help our entire defender …”
— Rebecca Stimson, Director of UK Public Policy, Meta · Describing Meta's collaborative approach to countering threats

“Given the sensitive nature of our security operations, any written information would be limited to what we are able to share in the public domain …”
— Rebecca Stimson, Director of UK Public Policy, Meta · Explaining constraints on the written submission Meta can provide

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