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Nov 13, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Steve Bannon has *finally*been indicted.

BIG news in America. But let’s not forget Big Steve’s interference in our own democracy. (And how Facebook has facilitated him at every turn.)

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Exhibit 1.

Here’s @nigel_farage on the day article 50 was triggered:

‘Well done Bannon, well done Breitbart. You helped with this hugely’

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Exhibit 2: Remember this? Just a casual offer to illegally fund @nigel_farage’s new Brexit party

‘If you’re interested, what I’d like to do is set up something & I’ll fund it somehow. And I think you’re the perfect guy’

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Exhibit 3: Remember the histrionic resignation speech Boris Johnson made when he stepped down from being Foreign Secretary to pave way for his ultimate bid for power?

‘I’ve been talking to him all weekend about this speech’

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(Here’s @AlJazeera reporting on Boris & Bannon & me whinnying on about the failure of British broadcasters to cover it)

Exhibit 4

Love this. Here’s the man himself calling Bannon’s claim & my story ‘Codswallop’.

Exhibit 5: But this is just the Guardian & Observer banging away on the same old dru-
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
Exhibit 6: But why on earth does Facebook still treat Steve Bannon’s Breitbart as a ‘trusted news outlet’ when it’s a disinformation sewer? 🧐

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Exhibit 7: Steve Bannon was VP at Cambridge Analytica when it harvested the Facebook data. And the FTC has some questions…

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Nov 21
The sentencing hearing of Nathan Gill has begun.

Follow @thenerve_news for updates throughout the day.
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The barrister for the Crown has laid out the background and context for the case, including Ukraine's efforts to join the European Union.
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The barrister confirms that Gill was en route to Moscow when he was stopped at Manchester airport in 2021 (as first reported in @thenerve_news.
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Nov 12
NEW: The entire BBC news cycle is an abject lesson in the disaster economics of information.

This isn’t just a news story. It’s a teachable example of real-time information collapse. We can’t fix that but we can & must save the BBC.
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I wrote this back in Jan. What is happening to BBC is part of a systemic issue: total information collapse.

This is what happens when justified grievance, bad faith actors & Silicon Valley companies converge: erosion of trust in all institutions.
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There are sound reasons to criticise BBC. We’re all pissed off with it over something! But our valid critiques are being weaponised by the enemies of democracy.

The BBC is a crucial firewall in a moment of unprecedented danger. Why do you think Russia is joining in?!
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Oct 22
NEW: Russian interference case heads to Europe's 'Supreme Court'.

Ex-MPs - @CarolineLucas Ben Bradshaw & @AlynSmith - with @allthecitizens take landmark case to 'Grand Chamber'.

Case claims UK govt in breach of law for refusing to investigate foreign interference.
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It's pretty extraordinary timing in a case that has been running since 2020 & publication of Russia Report.

As Gill pleads guilty to taking Russian bribes, why is UK government *still* refusing to investigate Russian interference??
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thenational.scot/news/25561454.…
Firstly, please - if you can - support this crowdfunder from
@allthecitizens

@LeighDay_Law
have spent years on this. The MPs are persevering even tho they've now left parliament. And whole subject couldn't be more urgent or more timely 🙏
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crowdfunder.co.uk/p/expose-the-t…
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Oct 18
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve_news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Meet Nadia Sass.

This is the wife of the man who bribed Nathan Gill.

Today @thenerve_news reveals how she was a key part of the Kremlin operation that targeted not just Gill but at least 2 other MEPs and a member of the House of Lords.


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Meet the team.

Voloshyn - the man who bribed Nathan Gill - with his wife, Nadia Sass.

In part 2 of @thenerve_news’s investigation, we reveal their tag team approach.

But the UK police knew all this since at least 2022, the same year they fled to Belarus.

So what gives??
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Oct 1
REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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Tony Blair’s Institute has taken nearly half a billion $ from tech billionaire Larry Ellison.

His company Oracle is deeply embedded in Israeli govt & military.

Larry Ellison is a personal friend of Netanyahu.
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In Israel, Ellison’s Oracle partners with Rafael Systems whose weapons are being used in the Gaza genocide & implicated in the deaths of British aid workers.

But that’s just the start…
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The targeting & killing of journalists in Gaza & the failure of the media to show collective solidarity & to take collective action is…incomprehensible.

I feel a such profound sense of shame & failure. It’s not just the death of journalists. It’s the death of journalism.
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This is Mariam Abu Daka, one of 3 journalists killed in latest strike, warning that journalists are being deliberately targeted & killed.

‘The Israeli occupation targets journalists because they tell the truth’

She calls for urgent international protection. It did not come.
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It is not that there has not been efforts to mobilise a collective response by press freedom orgs, including @RSF_inter, but there has also been silence , denial & cowardice from the prestige legacy outlets.

There’s a reason trust in all media is plummeting.
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