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20 Jun, 7 tweets, 4 min read
NEW: GB News isn't crap. It's dangerous. I have form with Andrew Neil. Which is why I dread & fear what this new venture means.
keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/andrew-neil-…
Not that it isn't crap. It is. It's just also going to be a massively distorted influence in our already massively distorted news & information system.
The BBC & our strict Ofcom rules have been a bulwark against worst excesses of online mis- & disinfo. But for how much longer? The hounding of Newsnight's Nick Watt this week was a horrifying example of where this leads. And GB News has thrown a powerful new grenade into the mix.
I rang up @martinjemoore on Friday who's one of the smartest interpreters of all things media & he thinks it's inevitably going to impact BBC. Arguably, the whole channel is a troll on the BBC, a knowing provocation. UK news & info system just lurched a little bit further right
This has a personal element for me. How could it not? I deal with the aftermath of Neil's abuse of me every day. But it's also why I have an early warning system encoded into my cells. I wish I could laugh at GB News but I don't. I dread it.
I have strict policy of ignoring GB News's political correspondent. I make an exception only to point out that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. This is who got to ask 2nd question at the PM's news presser on Monday. GB News already key part of govt's spin operation
This is why I'm writing this newsletter with @allthecitizens. It's part of our Keeping The Receipts project. The plan to destroy the Electoral Commission announced this week is exactly why we're doing what we're doing. Subscribing will help us keep track & hold to account.

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22 Jun
Would you trust this man with your data? Why doesn't this new strategy address any of the concerns raised by doctors & campaigners? How will the govt make it secure? Who will have access to it? This is propaganda pure & simple.
The government paused the roll-out to this because of the public's shock & concern that it was being carried out at high speed, with no publicity & no patient consent. But this is just a white wash.
He literally stood in that exact same spot in front of that exact same picture when he said he threw a protective ring around care homes. We know how that turned out. @allthecitizens part of coalition of orgs with @Foxglovelegal taking urgent legal advice today.
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14 Jun
This shitshow like all the previous shitshows was so completely avoidable.
I recorded this on Fri with the excellent Columbia Journalism Review. Its editor @kylepope got in touch to ask what on earth going on with UK media. So bizarre to explain what’s going on to someone watching from outside. The madness of ‘Freedom Day’ as the virus mutates & surges
The inability of press or opposition to hold govt to account is literally killing us. I explained to @cjr how that frustration led me to @allthecitizens & our work with @IndependentSage & @FBoversight & lawyers like @A__W______O & @Foxglovelegal.
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6 Jun
This is WILD. I’ve never seen this clip before. Watch Dido Harding - revealed today as potential new head of NHS - chat to Cambridge Analytica’s Alexander Nix about the great potential of data exploitation 😱😱😱
#NHSDataGrab
What’s extraordinary is that it’s Cambridge Analytica’s Nix that points out that in UK we require OPT-IN consent to share people’s data.

Which is precisely what #NHSDataGrab is not doing. That requires OPT-OUT consent. For more, read this:

keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/cambridge-an…
What’s even more wild to me is Dido Harding’s role in all this. She makes a passing appearance in this newsletter because of her previous role as chair of Genomics England (after previously heading up NHS Improvement).

But this is what #NHSDataGrab is all about: it’s data gold.
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6 Jun
NEW: why we all need to worry a whole lot more about #NHSDataGrab. This is Cambridge Analytica on steroids.

I’m so profoundly disturbed by what this govt is doing with data.

keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/cambridge-an…
The speed & secrecy with which govt is doing this is truly alarming.

And it’s not just #NHSDataGrab, it’s also suppressing key data on schools.

It’s why @allthecitizens has launched not 1 but 2 legal cases this week with @A__W______O & @Foxglovelegal

crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-…
This newsletter is start of a major new transparency project from @allthecitizens. We believe we need to build a community to help journalists & others hold power to account. By subscribing to this newsletter, you’ll be supporting this work 🙏🙏🙏
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4 Jun
I don’t know how many ways there are of saying this but listen to the scientists. We are at another critical moment. There is very bad news overnight from Lancet study of Pfizer & variant. The govt is literally burying bad news on spread in schools. TAKE CARE
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3 Jun
Good morning. Your government is suppressing evidence of the spread of the new variant in schools. This has been going on for weeks. We know it has this data. We know it is refusing to publish it. WHY??
Read @chrischirp's thread.
The consequences of this suppression of data are potentially deadly. Schools are reservoirs of the unvaxxed. If the variant is spreading, this is where it's happening. That we're allowing govt to do this AGAIN is unforgiveable

Unions - inc @UNISONinSchools & @NEUnion - have been demanding data for weeks. Scientists @dgurdasani1 & @chrischirp have been jumping up & down. And still nothing.

@allthecitizens with help from @A__W______O sent legal letter on Fri.

AND STILL NOTHING
bmj.com/content/373/bm…
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