Interesting acronym that is used for this, SLAPPs (Strategic legal actions against public participation). Almost like whoever came up with the term is having a laugh.

I’m sure the UK government can be fully trusted to implement this task force in an effect way.

Another interesting part of the article

Earlier this year, openDemocracy revealed how the UK government helped Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late Wagner leader, to bypass sanctions and launch a legal attack on British journalist Eliot Higgins of investigative website Bellingcat in the London courts.