It's not even a new job in Brussels. Andy Pryce was *officially* moved out of CDMD (no doubt at least in part due to #IntegrityInitiative leaks 'burning' him) and simply took up residence in the Foreign Office's super shadowy Counter Disinfo Unit.
https://twitter.com/Tracking_Power/status/1536988488251363328
On March 3rd Pryce emailed Mason boasting how he'd forced YouTube to remove "Russian stuff". Four days later, CDU's role in this was confirmed by a minister. They added that CDU is run by "experts in assessment and analysis, disinformation, and behaviour and attitudinal change." 
It was a uniquely candid disclosure about CDU's nature - at least 69 separate parliamentary questions relating to the unit have been stonewalled since its launch two years ago, and FOIs are reflexively rejected.
Might add @ChrisDYork is an extremely creepy character who in late 2019, after straight year of vicious attacks on my reporting on #IntegrityInitiative, started pretending to be my friend in a clear attempt to gather info on me. I know for a fact this was passed on too.
Skipping back to that parliamentary answer from March 7th, note ref to CDU working with social media paltforms to "swiftly remove disinformation and coordinated inauthentic or manipulated behaviour". Now, consider that Mason's map was seemingly prepared specifically for Pryce...
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