Solidarity with those boycotting Twitter for #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate. But there are concrete things we can do & need to shout about. We cannot rely on a US-based company to police itself. We know this. But we have laws! Why are they not enforced? #AskPriti bbc.co.uk/news/uk-535449…
I joined boycott y'day because registering protest & solidarity = important. But having spent 4 years reporting lack of accountability of tech giants, it won't work. And even if did, it's only 1 individual among 10000s on here spreading hate.
BUT there are things we can do..
Every few months I draw attention to @DrDavidDuke, an actual Ku Klux Klan grand wizard with 53k followers. But UK is not the US. We have existing hate speech laws. CPS said in 2017 it would take same 'robust' stance to hate online as offline..
Anyway, I'll shut up now. The point is that we as social media users are powerless. It's why it's so critical that we enforce the laws we have. And why it was such a total & abject moral failure that the government failed to back parliament in demanding Zuckerberg testify in UK.
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NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what??
Today @nerve_news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson. 1/
Christopher Harborne's £5m gift to Farage is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry.
But our latest story in #HarborneReceipts raises incredibly serious qs including...did Boris Johnson give Harborne classified defence info he then profited from? 2/
Bravo to the @Gabriel_Pogrund & team. This is the story in plain sight that needed to be nailed. Congrats are in order for getting it over a difficult line.
George Cottrell has operated with impunity at highest levels of UK politics for more than a decade 1/
Sun Times story is the gamechanger we need. But this is a decade-long story that was ignored by papers like Sun Times - as was Farage - for years. Because…Brexit.
Cottrell was central in both Brexit & building Brexit Party in years after 2/
NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.
New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news 1/
Johnson is now in the frame for breaching for the same parliamentary rules as Farage by accepting a gift from the same donor.
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.
B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf
It’s an amazing report which nails how Russia’s hybrid warfare programme actually works & how Russia is explicitly & directly inciting racialised violence in UK - & working with Tommy Robinson to do so - as well as directing acts of violence
against PM.
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The stakes couldn’t be any higher. And I was already gripped by the incredible detail of what BBC uncovered - & which apparently Met police had missed - when Sergei Nalobin suddenly enters the chat..as a tutor to the guy who directed entire UK sabotage operation.
A new investigation by @thenerve_news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/
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Palantir recruited the two most senior AI strategists from the Ministry of Defence & NHS…& won multimillion £ contracts with both, a pattern repeated across the UK govt. 2/