Britain is proposing a new law that will require social media companies to proactively tackle disinformation posted by foreign states such as Russia, the government said on Monday. The law would tackle fake accounts on platforms such as Meta’s Facebook and Twitter that were set up on behalf of foreign states to influence elections or court proceedings, the government said. The UK has sanctioned Aleyona Chugaleva who it describes as the Secretary of the“Organizing Committee of Patriotism in Journalism” and “a key individual associated with the disinformation website SouthFront” which has “promo…