Thread: Scarfolk 2018 highlight. In June, the government published its civil service quarterly magazine, which included a piece about the history of state public information. Among the images of genuine campaigns, however, was a Scarfolk poster about shooting rabid children. /1
The civil service quickly amended the digital version of the publication but not before many people had downloaded it and the story went viral. It was reported by the BBC, Sky News, The Times, RT & the Mirror and as far afield as Poland, New Zealand, Colombia and Iran. /2
What made it more funny, or maybe more scary, is that directly below the Scarfolk faux pas in the same publication, the Government Communication Service states that its social media goals are to 'deal with disinformation' & 'reclaim' facts. /3
Wow. This has made my week. This is from the government's *own* publication about the history of government communications. They mistakenly included a Scarfolk poster which encourages the killing of children. Clearly, nobody thought it was too extreme. (via @CraigHeap)
You can download your own copy of this Scarfolk/UK government 'collaboration' from the government's own site: quarterly.blog.gov.uk/download-a-pdf… (Hurry before they realise!)
On the last page of Discovering Scarfolk (2014), I warned about the dangers of a Scarfolk-based, apocalyptic cult infiltrating the civil service...
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