Research on disinformation networks, opaquely funded think tanks and astroturfing. Focus on political and media influence

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Joined July 2022
Series threads for easier reading 1. Welcome to the Counter Disinformation Project xitter.cf/CDPNetworkMap/status/1…
Welcome to the Counter Disinformation Project Researching and mapping disinformation networks How did covid become a culture war? #FollowTheDarkMoney #DisinformationDozen #HARTleaks counterdisinformationproject…
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Useful overview of the nonsense about folic acid in flour being pushed by Clare Craig of anti-vax misinformation group HART. Long time followers will be familiar with her dire record during the pandemic. Shockingly she's #WrongAgainClare. thecritic.co.uk/why-we-forti…
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The ULEZ bomber 15 year sentence for 100m blast radius in a residential street, but who radicalised him? Who rolled ULEZ into 15 Minute City conspiracy theories? counterdisinformationproject…
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From @karamballes via his substack @CDPNetworkMap The ULEZ bomber 15 year sentence for 100m blast radius in a residential street, but who radicalised him? counterdisinformationproject…
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The ULEZ bomber 15 year sentence for 100m blast radius in a residential street, but who radicalised him? Who rolled ULEZ into 15 Minute City conspiracy theories? counterdisinformationproject…
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What really happened n the French school riots? @docrussjackson explains how events have been warped to fit right-wing narratives counterdisinformationproject…
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The rise of disinformation fueled mobs Antivaxxers at the school gates were a sign of what was to come as disinformation online increasingly takes to the streets Are we entering an age of US style militias? counterdisinformationproject…
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Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK? Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air counterdisinformationproject…
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It's about more than just the £72 Million Examing Reform's record donations and the wider third party infrastructure supporting the radical right counterdisinformationproject…
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Telegraph's Knapton promotes Anti-vax letter Letter comes from Aseem Malhotra and collective of cranks, while Toby Young and GB News' Bev Turner engage in other anti-vaX disinformation counterdisinformationproject…
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Telegraph's Knapton promotes Anti-vax letter Letter comes from Aseem Malhotra and collective of cranks, while Toby Young and GB News' Bev Turner engage in other anti-vaX disinformation counterdisinformationproject…
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The latest nonsense from Sarah Knapton at the Telegraph: a letter "coordinated" by cardio crank Aseem Malhotra, signed by such health luminaries as Woody Harrelson (who doesn't believe in viruses) and former tennis player Pat Cash (who took ivermectin throughout the pandemic).
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Response to Mostert retraction demonstrates the rise of anti-science Accusations of “political interference” by the Telegraph's Science Editor Sarah Knapton and Toby Young undermines science and boosters conspiracy theorists counterdisinformationproject…
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Response to Mostert retraction demonstrates the rise of anti-science Accusations of “political interference” by the Telegraph's Science Editor Sarah Knapton and Toby Young undermines science and boosters conspiracy theorists counterdisinformationproject…
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Your political leader reclassified SARS as a "Level 1" Hazard (down from BSL-3), so they don't have to provide PPE for HCWs. Why? Because you keep blaming HCWs for not wearing PPE, instead of political leaders. #YouDoYou #MuzzledScientists #WearN95
Scottish NICPM downgrades Covid to lowest level R1 This follows Health & Safety Executive reclassifying from Haz Group 3 down to Haz Group 2 in May. Decision will leave HCWs and patients without appropriate protection. counterdisinformationproject…
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Are these gains from the Covid Inquiry?
Scottish NICPM downgrades Covid to lowest level R1 This follows Health & Safety Executive reclassifying from Haz Group 3 down to Haz Group 2 in May. Decision will leave HCWs and patients without appropriate protection. counterdisinformationproject…
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Sarah Knapton, Telegraph Science Editor promoted a paper that raised a lot of criticism at the time, its been withdrawn, so Knapton has now attacked the decision, quoting the papers authors to say its an entirely political decision Quite obvious what Knapton is trying to do
It's been a bad couple of days for 'fake news' Telegraph. First, its 'science' editor's favourite widely criticised anti-vax study was retracted as it contained 'misinformation'. Now its political editor gets slapped down by the regulator for more anti-vax lies. #AntiVaxScammers
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Scottish NICPM downgrades Covid to lowest level R1 This follows Health & Safety Executive reclassifying from Haz Group 3 down to Haz Group 2 in May. Decision will leave HCWs and patients without appropriate protection. counterdisinformationproject…
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Issues were raised
Hi Kamran. I'm not an anti-vaxxer and neither as far as I know are the three experts who wrote to the BMJ's editorial board objecting to your retraction of the paper. So I don't think it's an adequate answer to those critics to smear them as anti-vaxxers. Here's an extract from the Telegraph's story on the retraction and the letter to the BMJ from the three experts: Ronald Meester, professor of probability theory at Vrije University in Amsterdam, who was one of the authors of the letter, told the Telegraph that there was “no scientific reason to retract”. “I think that BMJ might have been pressured, but not clear by whom,” he said. “As we wrote in our letter, retraction is bizarre in this case, there is nothing actually wrong with the paper. “Hence the real reason must be political. Very sad, really, for science. I do not see how we can take science seriously anymore when editors are willing to make decisions for these kinds of reasons.”
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Scottish NICPM downgrades Covid to lowest level R1 This follows Health & Safety Executive reclassifying from Haz Group 3 down to Haz Group 2 in May. Decision will leave HCWs and patients without appropriate protection. counterdisinformationproject…
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IPSO ruling forces Telegraph to print correction after misrepresenting UKHSA on vaccine data request A look at the ruling and Political Editor Camilla Turner's frequent "sane washing" of anti-vax disinformation groups' misrepresentations counterdisinformationproject…
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