Nato must defend western democracy against Russian hacking, say Fallon

UK defence secretary accuses Moscow of ‘weaponising misinformation’ to disable democratic machineryNato must begin to compete on the cyber-battlefield to counter Russian hacking, which is “weaponising misinformation” to create a post-truth age, the defence secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, has said.In his hardest-hitting comments yet about Russia, Fallon said that in the past two years it had targeted the US, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Montenegro, which b