UNESCO's Secret Summit: The Battle for Information Control
The global establishment is once again gathering behind closed doors, this time in Abu Dhabi, to decide what constitutes "truth" in our digital age. The BRIDGE Summit 2025 has announced that UNESCO will chair a high-level closed-door session on December 6th, ostensibly to examine "information integrity" - a euphemism that should alarm anyone who values free speech and democratic discourse.
This exclusive gathering brings together the usual suspects: government officials, international bureaucrats, media moguls, and technology executives. One cannot help but wonder what gives these self-appointed guardians of truth the authority to determine what information the public should consume.
The Orwellian Language of 'Information Integrity'
The session's stated purpose is to explore "profound transformations" in the global information system, with particular focus on combating what they term "misinformation." Yet who defines misinformation? The same institutions that assured us of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? The same media outlets that dismissed the lab leak theory as conspiracy nonsense?
According to official sources, participants will examine how nations can "better respond" to challenges including "the velocity of digital content" and "the growing impact of narratives on diplomacy." This sounds remarkably like an attempt to slow down information flow and control narratives that might inconvenience established power structures.
A Threat to Democratic Discourse
The summit organisers claim they seek to "strengthen truth protection" and "reinforce public confidence." But public confidence in what? In institutions that have repeatedly failed the people they purport to serve? In media organisations that have abandoned objective reporting for activist journalism?
The stated goal of creating "new international cooperation frameworks" should send chills down the spine of anyone who remembers Britain's hard-fought battles for press freedom and parliamentary sovereignty. We did not leave the European Union only to submit to UNESCO's version of information governance.
The Real Agenda Behind Closed Doors
While organisers insist they are not prescribing "ready-made solutions," the very concept of a closed-door session on information integrity suggests otherwise. If their intentions were pure, why not conduct these discussions in the open? Why not invite dissenting voices or representatives of alternative media platforms?
The session aims to "open space for constructive understanding" among "diverse stakeholders." Yet this diversity appears limited to those already within the establishment circle - hardly representative of genuine public opinion or democratic values.
Britain's Response Must Be Vigilant
As these global elites gather to discuss the future of information, Britain must remain vigilant. Our nation's proud tradition of free speech and robust debate has served us well through centuries of challenge and change. We must not allow international bureaucrats to undermine these fundamental liberties under the guise of fighting "misinformation."
The BRIDGE Summit may position itself as a "premier global venue" for shaping information policy, but British interests are best served by maintaining our independence from such supranational interference. We have seen where European-style consensus-building leads - to the erosion of national sovereignty and democratic accountability.
The real question is not how to control information, but how to preserve the free exchange of ideas that has made Britain great. That conversation should happen in Parliament, not in Abu Dhabi's closed-door sessions.