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Justin Schlosberg
@jrschlosberg
useful idiot. occasional singer. Background art by Tom McShane - https://t.co/vY2kN3mypS
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Nov 5 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
Why the Corbyn left is sliding into political relevance and what can be done about it.. a long 🧵 Image Prior to the July election, I was one of the co-founders of a new organisation called Collective - aiming to unite various groups and factions of the left and establish the first mass party of the working class in Britain outside of the Labour Party...we-are-collective.org
Jul 3 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
One of the great untold stories of this election is that Labour's polling has dropped even more steeply than the Tories' since the campaigns got underway...1/ Image The reason why this story has been ignored by everyone from the Guardian to the Murdoch press is because it calls into question the singular dominant narrative that the only alternative to the status quo is Farage and the far right... 2/
Mar 6, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
20 years ago the US and UK governments launched an illegal war which claimed the lives of nearly a million innocent civilians. They did so on a pack of lies which served to cover up the oil profiteering and conspiracy leading up to the invasion.. Those lies were the culmination of a political culture that became closely associated with Tony Blair's New Labour government and the incestuous ties that were cemented with the Murdoch media empire...

theguardian.com/politics/blog/…
Feb 15, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Starmer's self congratulations on the handling of antisemitism within the Labour Party is built on one of the most comprehensive cover ups in modern British politics, and a litany of lies that makes Boris Johnson look like an oracle of truth telling... the principle lie is that the previous leadership 'interfered' in order to undermine the proper handling of antisemitism complaints. As anyone with the slightest relationship to facts will know, that is not just a lie, it is an Orwellian inversion of the truth...
Nov 30, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
John Ware claims he declined to sue me because I have a "young family". I'd love to believe such an act of benevolence. But I wonder why, in that case, he has steadfastly refused to answer the sort of questions I've been putting to him for 2 years:

jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-denied… In the above article Ware laments that his rebuttals have been 'ignored'. I have a similar frustration, beginning more or less when he refused to address my pre-publication questions for this article in 2020:

novaramedia.com/2020/07/22/bbc…
Oct 18, 2022 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
Ware has now 'responded' to myself, @OborneTweets and others in the wake of @AJIunit's #LabourFiles

But in a 6K+ word article he again appears to sidestep the questions I've been trying to put to him and @BBCPanorama for 3+ years..

thearticle.com/rewriting-hist… He repeats that an interview with @schneiderhome forms the basis of the ‘central allegation’ made against him. Yet, somewhat incredulously, again avoids any mention of the main thrust of that interview..

Sep 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Just like the Forde Report, #LabourFiles has exposed the complete collapse of basic journalistic standards in @BBCPanorama's episode 'Is Labour Antisemitic?'

AND YET...

1) The BBC rejected every single complaint at every stage, claiming Labour was given a "full right of reply" in spite of the fact that it ignored key parts of this reply including one that was emboldened and underlined for emphasis...

novaramedia.com/2020/07/22/bbc…
Sep 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Euan Phillips, non-Jewish spokesperson for @LabourAgainstAS, has been exposed as the individual behind 'David Gordstein'... On behalf of LAAS he claimed to have submitted a "dossier of evidence" about me to @UKLabour during my membership, but strangely refused to disclose this and no record of it according to @uklabour's subject access response...
Sep 25, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
@AJEnglish invited me interview on this last night following the broadcast of part 2 (on antisemitism). They bumped me off for a right wing PR consultant, party donor and Starmer supporter.

That was completely fair enough BUT... The interview was appalling and he was allowed to dismiss the entire investigation as "a report that's disputed" without being pressed on any of the issues.

@AJEnglish thus not immune to the very editorial pressures and blindspots revealed in their own investigation...
Jun 10, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In this 'documentary' the BBC admitted that a key element of their source material - an audio recording of a lecture given by @Tim_Hayward_ was obtained without consent and they 'can't tell us how'...

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Given the context of an academic accused of spreading Russian disinformation, there's every reason to speculate that it might have been the result of a 'hack' by sources working for or allied to the British state...
Jun 10, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In all honesty I wasn't particularly impressed with the Grayzone article. Like much of their output, I found the framing unnecessarily self-centred, polarising and lacking in important nuance... I also think the email sent to @EmmaLBriant was inappropriate and not consistent with a fair right of reply, which is similar to the way I was treated by the BBC...
Jun 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Emma in this tweet you describe it as categorically 'hacked material'. In another tweet in the same thread you describe it as a 'possible hack'.

Can you clarify if you have any actual evidence - rather than supposition - that it was a hack (as opposed to leak)? Secondly, do you acknowledge that the Panama Papers was the product of an illegal hack by an unknown source, with credible speculation that the Kremlin may have been involved?
Jun 8, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
It's disappointing that neither @chloehadj nor @paulmasonnews seem willing to apologise for their obvious errors of judgement here, but it's important to understand their motivation and refrain from personal abuse... It seems clear to me that these journalists are driven by a genuine and passionate belief that Putin's disinfo machine is so sophisticated and all powerful that they must be resisted by any means possible...
Jun 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@paulmasonnews in a recent interview for a @BBCRadio4 doc you accused me, among others, of being a 'Putin supporter'. Presumably, as a journalist, you fact check damaging claims and allegations before broadcasting them. In this case you wouldn't have had to look hard or far.. So perhaps you already came across this tweet where I call out left-wing blindspots on Putin?

Jun 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@chloehadj in your recent @bbcradio4 doc you accused me of spreading Russian disinformation based on a 'deep dive' of my twitter feed. Presumably you came across this thread calling out leftists who frame Putin as a victim of western imperialism?

Or how about this one where I attack Kremlin-controlled media for fabricating and distorting coverage of Ukraine?

Jun 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Emma, why? The article discloses emails, one of which you were apparently a party to, discussing a covert plot to target so-called 'rogue academics' among others with underhand tactics including 'stunts', 'stigmatising' and 'deplatforming'... As a disinfo expert, I'm sure you can appreciate the obvious public interest in this disclosure and that it warrants a comment on the actual content, rather than just dismissing it as a 'Russian hack'...
Jun 1, 2022 • 36 tweets • 8 min read
Last night, @BBCRadio4 aired a documentary which repeatedly accused me and other academics of spreading Russian disinformation.

In a glaring and twisted irony, this amounted to an apparent smear operation that would not seem out of place on Kremlin media. Here’s why... In my case, the primary evidence offered for this grossly defamatory allegation was a thread I tweeted on 4th April, in which I called for journalistic caution in reporting on the Bucha atrocities...

May 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Here's a fuller version of what the BBC partially quoted in the article below:

"I’m one of those people who believes first and foremost that the Russian invasion was an act of inexcusable aggression... I’ve long been very concerned about both the nature and extent of the disinformation strategies and campaigns of the Kremlin under Putin’s leadership. I’ve authored a number of articles and led research in this area...
Apr 28, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Thanks for sharing Emma. Some questions if I may (and feel free to ignore or continue discussion offline):

1) Are you aware that Facebook actually altered it's moderation policies following invasion to de-blacklist Azov and allow users to call for violence against Russians? 2) How does that square with your suggestion that moderation policies are not overwhelmingly privileging Ukrainian nationalist/Western narratives?
Apr 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The principle blind spot amongst some on the left is that Russia was 'provoked' into war with Ukraine or that the invasion was a defensive move against NATO expansion and US imperialism... This is a conceptual trap that not only overlooks the callous cynicism behind Putin's decision to invade, but also that 'security' has been the pretext for asserting regional dominance and waging wars of imperial conquest since the Romans.
Apr 22, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
There is now very little difference between platform censorship in Russia and the West.

This individual appears to have been silenced by Facebook simply for sharing an article critical of US foreign policy in the middle east... Even in the grip of post 9-11 patriotic fever and the Bush-Blair rush to war, there was nothing like the chilling of free speech that we are witnessing today...