We've reached the point where the mob is looking for excuses to kick off, RW politicians and Media can now direct the mob with a single sentence

Same forces that acted when Trump said March of Capitol Hill
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I notice this mob is calling itself the UK Freedom Convey, picking up directly off the orchestrated action in Canada

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Wonder why the mob is shouting about free masons, paedophiles and New World ordered? I see Piers Corbyn was there

Oh look its "Freedom" fighters assemble hanging out with Qanon John Mappin

I'm sure its all a coincidence
Once again the media will wring their hands and say how unacceptable this behaviour is

But they're the ones feeding the trolls
The point of culture wars is about creating enemies and tribal media have been happy to play along
Thousands on Telegram organising their own Trucker action around the world
Always the same faces in the crowd, professional protestors who seem to have the financial backing to do this full time

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Feb 6
🧵Canadian Truckers, a case study on how the International Covid Disinformation Network operates to distort political debate and radicalise with the aim of destabilising democracies.

It's a cross border project
2/ To start with, the antivaxxers and disinformation groups are hiding behind anti mandate banners around the world are celebrating the Truckers, its no coincidence start of the convey coincided with Antivax fest in the US, expect copycat events elsewhere
3/ The convey is very similar to a 2020 Truckers rally in Mitchigan, same messaging, actions and even ppl, the aim is to bring the city to a halt, several UK commentators supporting this whilst they were all for locking up climate protestors last year
Read 40 tweets
Feb 6
The issue is that Lucy Johnston and Sarah Knaptons idea of protecteding education is to allow uncontrolled transmission and mass constant reinfection of students, for this end they platform disinformation and argue against vaccination
#edutwitter
Lucy Johnson is actively working with coordinated disinformation groups,

Here she is suggesting we should expect vaccine deaths in children, she suggests vaccination would be purely political and no benefit to children

There have been none in the UK
Read 18 tweets
Feb 4
🧵Nelson and the Spectator have been a constant source of covid minimalising disinformation and are basically a mouth piece for GBD

No suprise to see them over promoting this non-peer reviewed preprint, while ignoring the peer reviewed papers that found the opposite
2/ The papers authors have been open supporters of the GBD which recieved support from Koch funded AIER and some of this papers authors are linked to the Koch funded Cato Institute

3/ Luckily enough Sam has already gathered up multiple threads showing the very many flaws with these studies, I doubt it will ever pass peer review.

Worth reading the thread⬇️
Read 18 tweets
Feb 3
A culture war was provoked, ppl complained about cancel culture and being silenced while on big platforms

They claimed they were protecting culture from the woke
But look who is burning books in the night
Where are the culture wars coming from?
Theres a lot of money being invested in division and hate
Koch network and the CNP has been facilitating this for years
Now we have privatised psy-ops scraping data, e-profiling, and bots and troll farms weaponising social media feeds

A look at Thiel, whose Palantir is said to have taught Cambridge Analytica how to scrape data, and the digital tactics used
Read 23 tweets
Jan 30
🧵A look at the advance of the pro-infection agenda on policy in other countries

Sweden, posterboy of Herd immunity thanks to Tegnell, less need for disinformation groups when government is fully signed up
2/ In Sweden the media are also fully signed up to a pro infection strategy, dissenting voices struggle to be heard

Listen to the interview linked here and then read the rest of the thread on how the WHO response was misrepresented
3/ Swedens has an impressive track record of government disinformation, particularly on schools
Read 17 tweets
Jan 29
1/🧵Some questionable stats, studies and statements over past 6 week

Examples and evaluation

First of all its worth looking at the impact some studies and articles have had in recent months
2/ As always theres been a focus in gaslighting around schools and children

In the UK education is facing serious disruption due to a lack of measures so adults can pretend everythings back to normal while politicians still chase the herd immunity unicorn
3/ Those minimising the impact on schools and children are an important part of the disinformation ecosystem

Each country has a small group of over publicised academics fighting against all measures backed up by astroturf campaign groups
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