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Counter Disinformation Project, Former NEU and ATL executive, @Unify1Edu Officer, Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy Public speaker

Jul 27, 2021, 84 tweets

So UsForThem ARE part of a coordinated disinformation network which includes some of the world's most prolific antivaxers and covid deniers

Having spoken to certain journalists in recent weeks I know the log chats contain a lot more information than just this article

2/ A quick overview of the kind of media profile HART have developed in short notice.

3/ For those not familiar with full details of UsForThem, see this part of a thread of mine and the links, I will be returning to the rest of the thread shortly

The article at the top is a good starting point for HART and the network, however there's more

4/ HART are useful idiots for the GBD, they develop disinformation and provide an "independent" voice for MPs and journalists. There are loads of these interlinked groups all aimed at targeting diff ppl with diff specific messaging, like Vote Leave did with Facebook ads

5/ For instance @LogicallyAI mention HART members are also involved in World Freedom Alliance, there is also the World Doctors Alliance

Some great details here

6/ These groups are dangerous and deeply unpleasant, been researching the network for more than a year now, its meant a lot of abuse, false accusations and the occasional death threat.

They produce terrible disinformation and have inspired some really dangerous ppl

7/ I was sent a copy of this leaflet, it was being put through letter boxes in a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood, I have seen considerably more disinformation shared in the non-white activist groups I'm in.I think its malicious, look who they recommend, created by or inspired?

8/ We know there are genuine historic reasons for higher rates of vaccine hesitancy in certain groups, I've seen many more examples of disinformation targeting specific groups, most are short vids, unfortunately I do know ppl who refuse vaccine because of this.

9/ We can see the repercussions of this networks disinformation on the streets of the UK

A struck off nurse calling for nurses and doctors to be hung after a Nuremberg style rally, where did she get this idea from?

World Doctors Alliance and WFA, from WDA website⬇️

10/ Right, let's start cracking this nut

1. World Freedom Alliance website
2. Screenshot from one of my reliable sources showing HART members organising talks with WFA in knowledge that they are involved in calling for Nuremberg 2.0

11/ I believe the network has influenced policy, certainly influenced the national debate.

The issue is the way these opaque groups interact with MPs and Journalists behind closed doors.

Here an Express journalists is said to be organising a GBD meeting with MPs

12/ Here is the same journalist tagging in anti school safety UsForThem and T4Recovery the group which has donated to the CRG.

13/ We have been let down by most the media, some are stenographers, some biased, some just chase easy stories and public opinion, most have failed to attack the disinformation networks while spending lots of time attacking gov critics calling for better mitigation.

14/ HART, GBD, UsForThem etc, wouldn't have gotten anywhere without ppl willing to platform them, some journalists will be ignorant of the network, others appear to be actively facilitating.

You can decide which is which
2. The GBD meeting
3. On promoting their launch

15/ Tominey said to attend a meeting with ppl from GBD, HART and MPs?

Recently started on LBC
1st weekend - Henegan - GBD
2nd weekend - Brookes - GBD

16/ I wonder if Graham Brady throwing his lot in with the CRG helped with his recent 1922 chair reelection

I wonder which MPs realise they are basically meeting multiple subsidiaries of the same network being coordinated by a smaller group?

17/ A sources thoughts on HART as part of the wider network

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19/ I believe the previous comment about an inner core of 10 is an approximation.

20/ Its interesting how the media have attacked iSAGE when they've only operated in public. The network is all about secrecy, its anti democratic, at times it almost sounds like those supporting the conspiracy theorists are engaged in a conspiracy

21/ What was the starting strategy of HART?

Meet with Govs internal and high profile critics (sounds like CRG considered leadership challenge at start of the year) to get a meeting with top of gov. Part of a larger effort.

How many and who have they met with?

22/ Remember reference to the network supporting HART and others being almost like setting up resistance cells..

When Javid and others say "lots of scientists agree" do they mean lots of groups run by a central well resourced and connected core?

"None of this will be public"

23/ Oh what a shame, it is now public, because there are leakers amongst them

Well not all of it is public, there's a lot more on HART and their interactions with other groups, and theres plenty more still to uncover.

How have they influenced policy?
Democracy deserves to know

24/ "Operation Lumen" The exit strategy developed by an inner core while the other groups engage MPs and the media, seemingly facilitated by ppl who have been political advisers and journalists.

So secrete their general members cant know about it, never alone the general public

25/ Anyone remember any questionable BMJ opinion pieces?
Perhaps around child vaccination for instance?

26/ Thinking back to that list of target journalists, who in the BBC, Telegraph and Mail are working with Ros Jones (who produces a lot of UfTs official material including letters to @GavinWilliamson) on challenging the idea that children shouldn't be vaccinated?

27/ should be vaccinated*🤦🏽‍♂️

Notice also there were plans in February to use the network to discredit Zero Covid, shortly after this I started hearing the phrase "Zerod covid fanatic"

Some members have some pretty confused thinking. This statement wasn't challenged.

28/ As I said they are like the undercover antivax resistance cell, some don't like it that others in the network like Sikora endorsed adult vaccination but they are all working together for roughly the same aim

29/ All sorts of ppl pop in to offer support

Here is a former Cambridge Analytica psychologist, explaining how he will explain vaccine passports are psychologically manipulative and which media outlets will put it out

30/ Here the former CA guy digs through data on ppl who want mask wearing as they discuss how to manipulating them into changing their mind on masks

31/ Here they are smirking about the big project he did in the US, he then drops a data file for them 😉

Still smirking now?

32/ Dont know much about data collection, but it seems like almost any tactic is acceptable to achieve their aims, this way of getting out an anti child vax message certainly seems questionable

33/ I'm sure this is all legal, the network does afterall have its own legal organisations, here Lawyers 4 Liberty are organising liability letters to vaccinators

34/ Paul has done amazing work at showing who is in various groups in the network and how they work together

Here is the bit on lawyers 4 liberty including this one, so we can guess who the lawyers she mentioned are, are they serious or egging her on?

35/ UfT also have support from Francis Hoar, here he is the link losing a court case against masks in classroom.

Here they are discussing how they shouldn't compete with bigger groups like UfT for crowdfunding as they need the money for stuff like this⬇️

36/ UfT seem to have been a major route into getting MPs to engage.
1. How to remove mitigations - HART produce anti mask doc/ meeting with IDS
2. Then refer the MPs to "independent" HART

37/ 1.Also looks like the the anti mask letter was put out via UK Medical Freedom Alliance
2. MPs suggesting ways of moving forward, and suggesting the weekly MP bulletin

38/ Worth bearing in mind that @halfon4harlowMP as Chair of the education select committee invited UfT to provide evidence to parliamentary committees

Guess who wrote it?

39/ Quick update thanks @Josie19752

Would love to know @defenddigitalme's thoughts on this, everyone should follow and learn about the huge data issues in education, I got a motion passed at NEU exec a while ago to support them

40/
1. PF of CA advises calm neutrality and not getting into squabbles in public
2. Contacting associate editor of Telegraph who seems keen on starting an attack on a member of Independent SAGE and Gov adviser

41/
Dismissing Long Covid, remember the "Muchausen by Proxy story"?
Idea its mainly all psychological

42/ You can see how so much of the UK media agenda has been influenced, particularly around schools and children, as I've always said, they are key in a strategy of reaching herd immunity by infection (if possible?)

43/ I wonder if some people are now sweating, some members have kept their involvement private.

An early membership list so not definitive

44/ HART is just a cog, only a few members fully know whats going on

I think Panda is a bigger cog
Collateral Global is Gupta

45/ Enough from me, for now, as you can see we have a serious fucking problem with the state of our democracy

Most journalists are ignorant to this and those who have been digging appear vastly outnumbered by those facilitating this

Read it all⬇️

46/ The UK government has proven fertile ground for the lobbyists, this is because we are already at risk of State Capture

Another long one ⬇️ Comparing past decade of education policy to covid policy

BTW wish me luck, I hear the sound of a troll army just beyond the horizon and can smell the shit storm coming my way.

If you want another great read into this murky world from a different angle I'd recommend reading Maya's massive and ongoing thread

47/ I think the MPs who put their support behind UfT have quite a few questions to answer.

Besides Brady who isn't below

49/ Stars of Covid has compiled a list of people linking the various organisations in the network from going through the HART files

Link here

50/ A correction

51/ But as Stars of Covid points out, the web never forgets

web.archive.org/web/2021072511…

52/ And today the Chair of the UKs Education Select Committee is still promoting UsForThem.

53/ Guy from AggregateIQ advising parents on Covid Pox Parties

Sounds familiar...

Oh here's a HART member who coordinates with other groups talking about it a couple of months ago

54/ There is currently a push to remove testing, to start with the aim is to get rid of asymptomatic testing.

So is this the Tory Covid Recovery group or T4Recovery that donated to CRG "requesting help".

55/ There are issues with LFT, particularly when used as a green light, but notice their main attack is on specificity, its about making the case of too many false positives adding to the "pingdemic" so that they are scrapped

56/ A Reverend gets a consigned letter about passports published by the Spectator

Turns out he's in HART, and look who he is getting advice from

"An open letter from Christian leaders concerning vaccine passports | The Spectator" spectator.co.uk/article/an-ope…

57/ And if the facts don't match the narrative, change the facts.

58/ Interesting thread here, from a UK perspective I've found @GYamey's threads fascinating.

Link in the pic is worth a read, full thread here⬇️

59/
"Gen up the Great Reset"
Klaus?

60/ Oh... Klaus Schwab

61/ New article here on Fagan from Cambridge Analyticas involvement, good to see more reports on this appearing. Will start seeing a some momentum building on this

62/ HART have now responded to the leaks, their response is in the link below, as is a look at the context HART believe is lacking

63/ Here's another website they've set up with
"The 3 step, covid propoganda detox plan"
Or
"How to make a tinfoil hat"

Switch of mainstream,listen to our ppl, know you're being manipulation, refuse isolation etc
coronababble.com

64/ Good article here showing background of key figures in these groups and their connections.

bylinetimes.com/2021/02/02/cam…

65/ The dangerous crazy keeps coming

More chat of Great Reset, hanging nurses, as they decide vaccines cause covid and kill ppl

Lots of discussion on producing antivax material

Unbelievable these ppl have gained access so easily to MPs and media

66/ More Tinfoil hat chat.

Sorros, Gates, the elite cabal etc
dailydot.com/debug/anti-vax…

67/ Anyone else see organisation advised by former Cambridge Analytica head psychologist calling for followers to hand over all their data with just a bit of suspicion?

68/The more ppl look into HART the more they appear to be useful idiots trawling the Internet for confirmation bias.

Report here on them discussing posts by bots and trolls, so who runs the troll farms?

69/ Well Russia for a start are investing in disinformation, division and distrust is what Pugin wants

70/ Evidence HART takes some of the most prolific AntiVaxers in the US seriously

Ppl are dying because they believe this nonsense

Its a scandal MPs and journalists are taking these groups seriously

Its a second scandal media aren't all over this

71/ They saw the death of Sir Captain Tom as an opportunity to spread anti vax disinformation

72/ Canadian clone organisation, appears to be part of the same network, same messaging, same demands

A health organisation with nothing positive to say about the vaccine.
canadahealthalliance.org/about-us/

73/ CHA have an interview with an expert from the UK, guess who?

Ros Jones from HART and UsForThem who also coordinates with the UK "alliance"

So trying to stop children being vaccinated as paediatric ICUs in areas of Canada are struggling

74/ Of course they are promoting the GBD, how a small but well organised and funded group managed to have such a global impact is one of the main questions that needs answering when we look back at the pandemic.

75/ Here we have Lord Attlee and Kate Silverton getting on well with Bernard

Also mention of the German/American lawyer Reiner Feullmich being in another legal group in the network

This is international

76/ Reiner Feullmich is the German equivalent of the "freedom alliance groups" we see in many countries.

Anti-vax and calling for drs and nurses to be punished for their part of the conspiracy

77/ Getting data to fit the narrative as Yeadon works with Florida to try and prevent child vaccinations

78/ A selection of ways to sabotage public health campaigns in a pandemic, and also the group discussing how to get parents to start refusing the flu shot this year

79/ They sound almost a little bit suprised they haven't had more scrutiny, I certainly am.

Dealing with the media

80/ Example of how they went about creating doubt about vaccines for children, and are using it to try and increase vax hesitancy

#edutwitter

81/ And here we have

Lucy Johnson-Express
Molly Kingsley-UsForThem
Allison Pearson-Telegraph

Children should enjoy the benefits of catching covid

Why can't we allow children to catch covid?

82/ Got to say that

Rather than vaccination, the best way of protecting your child from catching covid is to allow them to catch covid

As a serious statement deserves some kind of special award.

83/ Here is Lucy Johnson saying she agrees with these people about vaccines and how HART support her in getting an anti child vax message past her editor

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