What’s going on with the latest smear piece about Jeremy Corbyn? (round 2: thread)
The Daily Telegraph’s front page tomorrow will claim that ‘Corbyn’s dossier’ on selling the NHS to US corporations ‘points to Russians’:
pbs.twimg.com/media/EK0JqCSX…
The Daily Telegraph’s front page tomorrow will claim that ‘Corbyn’s dossier’ on selling the NHS to US corporations ‘points to Russians’:
pbs.twimg.com/media/EK0JqCSX…
2/The Daily Telegraph is owned by the billionaire Barclay brothers. Its article on Corbyn is based on research done by the Atlantic Council and social media analytics firm Graphika.
3/The Atlantic Council has received upwards of $1 million from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It also receives comparable amounts from Facebook and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates to the United States.
atlanticcouncil.org/support-the-co…
atlanticcouncil.org/support-the-co…
4/Social media analytics firm Graphika receives funding from the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the US Department of Defence:
graphika.com
graphika.com
5/ The Daily Telegraph piece relies on a mixture of circumstantial evidence and quotes from 'specialists' like Ben Nimmo. Nimmo was (is?) a senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft in London ‘specialising in Russian information warfare':
data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
6/ The Institute for Statecraft may ring a bell. In December 2018, leaked documents revealed this shady ‘charity’ was also funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the same time it was smearing Corbyn and spreading anti-Labour pieces:
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/resear…
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/resear…
7/ Did the Daily Telegraph (or other news outlets running this story such as Reuters and The Sun) report this context? Of course they didn’t – just like when another report hostile to Corbyn was recently published:
8/ In June, former CIA director and now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested the US would work to prevent Corbyn from becoming PM:
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
9/ The Tory press is now regularly regurgitating 'research' from organisations with direct ties to the US and British security apparatus to attack Corbyn.
Meanwhile, they are ignoring the very real interference of the US in our democratic process. This is a total scandal. /end
Meanwhile, they are ignoring the very real interference of the US in our democratic process. This is a total scandal. /end
I've just realised the header to my last thread on this matter - which was shared around 2,000 times and said absolutely nothing untoward - has been deleted unannounced. Any reason why @TwitterSupport?
