🧵Canadian Truckers, a case study on how the International Covid Disinformation Network operates to distort political debate and radicalise with the aim of destabilising democracies.
It's a cross border project
2/ To start with, the antivaxxers and disinformation groups are hiding behind anti mandate banners around the world are celebrating the Truckers, its no coincidence start of the convey coincided with Antivax fest in the US, expect copycat events elsewhere
3/ The convey is very similar to a 2020 Truckers rally in Mitchigan, same messaging, actions and even ppl, the aim is to bring the city to a halt, several UK commentators supporting this whilst they were all for locking up climate protestors last year
4/ Its more than just an antivax or "freedom" message, the radicalisation seeks to create insurgency groups, similarities to Russian tactics in the Ukraine
5/ Astoturfing networks rely on a combination of coopting fringe groups and movements almost like cuckoo's while building up satellite groups to amplify
Interesting that a senior Trucker organised is also involved in Canada's Yellow Vests and Wexit
6/ Yellow vests are an example of a movement that's been coopted and gone international, attempt to do this in the UK pre pandemic, our Yellow vests seem to be turning into "common law constables"
7/ Wexit is Canadas RW separist movement, seen many of these springing up around the world off the back of Brexit, seems like they all link back to the same opaquely funded organisations, some ppl benefit from division and disruption
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_….
8/ Bannon and others had been seeking to build international far right networks, using pressure groups and new political parties to influence and develop links into mainstream RW political parties
Bit like franchising they had to tailor conspiracy theories and select "the enemy"
9/ for their domestic target audiences. The pandemic gave them the opportunity to have a unified enemy and a core "freedom" ideology to unite behind
They coordinate disinfo and amplify events cross border through Telegram and other private msgs,
10/ Look at the actions of protestors in Canada last year, change the names and it could be a description of identical action in many other countries.
11/ You get the academics, media, politicians and mainstreamed campaign groups, all say they don't agree with violence, but they they constantly play to the same narrative as extremists,
Some countries crazies are more batshit than others, Canada⬇️
12/ The far right rely on the narrative of an enemy that requires strong action and truth only they can provide
Internet now allows propoganda to propagate at lightning speed, a lot of it is about stoking up anger
13/ Canada regional governments means responses have varied, BC government have been particularly bad, Ontario also struggled,Atlantic bubble seems to have done better
From the start as with many countries there were failings around airborne transmission
14/ At the start there were contrarian medics/academics like Rodger Hodkinson, disinfo organisations started forming after lockdowns and 1st gen got going in May
World Doctors Alliance started across board, had Canadian members
15/ This starting network includes world freedom alliance, medical freedom alliance, doctors for covid ethics, these were mainly European but identical groups were formed in Canada, MWGFD in Germany had a twin organisation WSHFD set up in Canada
crinner.github.io/mshfd/
16/ Claus Rinner is the founder of MSHFD, also involved in several other organisations
17/ Other groups include Concerned Ontario Doctors
(Besides their love of freedom there's a lot of concern and care in these groups)
They hosted an event with Simone Gold of US Trump/Bannon linked AFLD
18/ Worth seeing how AFLD got going and Simone Golds involvement in the Capitol Hill Insurrection, Canada and others need to wise up,
people are trying to form militias around the world
Those funding "freedom fighters" are destabilising democracies
19/ Canadian Covid Care Alliance have followed AFLD into the Ivermectin grift
Affiliate of British Ivermectin Research Development group (BIRD) who are linked into FLCCC
BIRD affiliates and Threads on Ivermectin netowork⬇️
20/ Hodkinson who I mentioned earlier is involved in the Truth for Health Foundation which includes Michael Yeadon
21/ Hodkinson is also involved in UKs C19Assembly which started off collecting donations for a death audit and has now moved onto their own vaccine adverse reaction form that links straight to their mates law firm
22/ You can see how all these groups have over lapping members domestically while also joining groups in other countries while also creating what are essentially international organising committees
23/ We see a Canadian group setting up its own Vax Tracker just like C19Assembly in UK, we also get Canadian doctors speak out having Ros Jones as a guest speaker
Jones is a member of disinfo group HART, anti school measures UsForThem,Safer To Wait etc
24/ As in the UK we see disinformation and GBD crowd working their way into official documents, particularly on schools
Ludvigsson, GBD signatory is quoted in Ontario documents in March 2021, he's accused of covering up covid harms in Sweden
25/ Ludvigsson is also quoted in BC documents to support lack of measures in schools
26/ I notice many of these references in the BC document are pre covid papers on influenza, also quotes Russel Viner from the UK, this study from April was a non reviewed systematic review, most papers reviewed were on flu not covid
27/ Viners work at start of the pandemic was quoted around the world and was instrumental in the early false narratives that children rarely get infected and rarely transmit to adults, he's gaslighted UK for 2 years currently opposing 5-11 vax
28/ Disinformation is two way, while groups in Canada quote questionable foreign sources, questionable Canadian groups are then quoted elsewhere
In the instance below its Australia
29/ These groups foster links with RW media and politicians, and a key objective is to keep measures out of schools to further the pro infection herd immunity strategy
Just look at BC for the influence these people have had over policy
30/ And what you Canadians should be asking is, why am I, a full time education worker in the UK having to connect the dots which your media should be doing?
I have spoken to some good journalists in Canada who are looking into this but there aren't enough of them.
31/ The Truckers are organised and well funded
32/ Other countries, do not allow these opaquely funded organisations to take over your politics, look at what the Republicans have become, look at the Tories being taken over in the UK
CNP/Koch network⬇️Not comprehensive
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34/ We also need to find a way to counter psy-ops, Palantir, Cambridge Analytica tricks are being utilised by the Covid Disinformation Network
35/ At the end of the day, the ppl at the top of the Libertarian movement want unconstrained anarchy for the few and a form of financial feudalism for the many
36/ Just seen this thread in my replies, interesting how the Koch network even picks the same names, eg
Canada -Taxpayers Federation
UK- Taxpayers Alliance
Western countries will all have their clones
Would help if I passed in the link🤦♂️
🧵Part II : Update
Truckers Update Part III
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