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2 Jul, 8 tweets, 3 min read
New, compelling evidence is emerging of 'a global effort by Russia’s military intelligence organization to spy on government organizations, defense contractors, universities and media companies'

nytimes.com/2021/07/01/us/…
It is an operation run by the same group that influenced the Us Presidential campaign in 2016.

And it's “almost certainly ongoing,” as aknowledged both by Usa and British security agencies.
In recent years, the Uk has been the target of attacks attributed to Russian agents, such as the Salisbury's poisoning, and Kremlin attempts to interfere with British elections, including the Brexit referendum in 2016. Still, the Uk government has chosen to look away
This is why 6 cross-party MPs & members of House of Lords & @allthecitizens legally challenged the Uk government on grounds of national security.
The High Court rejected our case
theguardian.com/law/2021/jun/2…
But evidence of Russian interference and the dangers of a confrontation are all around
And that is why we are appealing the High Court decision
You can support us here. 🙏
gofundme.com/f/legal-action…

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A report in @TheSun today of @MattHancock's affair with lobbyist Gina Coladangelo led to calls for the Health Secretary to resign. Boris Johnson now considers the matter into the affair “closed”, but what about other cases involving @MattHancock? @allthecitizens has the receipts.
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Faculty Science, the London-based AI start-up linked to Vote Leave and Dominic Cummings, has been quietly accumulating some very lucrative public sector contracts.

@allthecitizens can reveal that, since 2018, they've won some 17 gov awards worth £8.3m.

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Most recently, Faculty won £628,000 from two awards, both starting on the 1st of March 2021. One with the British Business bank, providing “data science enablement”, and another with DHSC to build a “National COVID Chest Imaging database”, in conjunction with NHSX’s AI Lab. ImageImage
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22 Jun
NEW: ‘The judge, Mr Justice Swift, said he saw “no distinction” between a controversial talkshow host – or “shock-jock” – & career spies in Moscow seeking to disrupt British democracy.’ @lukeharding1968 reports for @guardian

theguardian.com/law/2021/jun/2…
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