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Karam Bales
@karamballes
Counter Disinformation Project, Former NEU and ATL executive, @Unify1Edu Officer, Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy Public speaker
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Aug 26 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
🧵So Musk has decided to go off on one about the UK again

Migrants, Rape Gangs, Lucy Connolly, tweeting Tommy Robinson, and backing Rupert Lowe over Nigel Farage

Just before Farage goes to the US in September and as big antimigrant protests are planned shortly afterwards Image
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Image 2/ Some similarities to before the Southport attack and subsequent riots, creating a narrative and setting conditions to prime potential rioters for the next event that can be used as a match to start the fires
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Aug 23 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union
Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used Image
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Image 2/ The FSU was set up with support of Peter Thiel
James Orr a founding member of FSU is also on the Edmund Burke Foundation's board which organises NatCon, that Orr is also on the board of

JD Vance is Thiels minion, previously spent a record $15 million on getting Vance elected
Jul 13 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Why is @Tony_Diver giving a full page interview to Malhotra in the Telegraph?
The self-titled "leading cardiologist" has become an antivax hero, who has to publish his papers via his own journal because they are as dodgy as anything Wakefield put out

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Image The platforming of disinformation grifters in mainstream papers, particularly Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, GB News and TalkTv is contributing to the increase in vax hesitancy
People will die because of shoddy journalism from likes of @Tony_Diver
Jun 6 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Telegraph and Toby Young claiming "culture nationalism" being included is the latest attack by Labour on Free Speech is a lie

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Image 2/ From my October 2023 article for @BylineTimes on the updated Prevent training Image
Feb 14 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ So Toby Young, now a member of the house of Lords is directly receiving support from Musk, a member of a foreign government Image
Image 2/ This is after the FSU jumped onto a case of a teacher appealing against a school for being dismissed for their online posts, the case was being backed by Christian Concern and FDU piggybacked as an intervener Image
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Feb 4 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Trump 2.0 

While much of the UK media has focused on DEI, tariffs and confirmation hearings there's been less focus on what appears to be an attack on the US constitution, purges of people and scientific information, and efforts to supress opposition and scrutiny 2/ First a quick look at the pardoned Jan 6 rioters as an example

Dec 20, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Toby Young to join House of Lords
Ridiculous, consider the content of his Daily Sceptic which produces a daily diet of climate change denial and antivax stories

I bet he continues to complain about elites and the establishment whilst wearing his ermine Consider how he set up Free Speech Union after Jordan Peterson and James Or (Edmund Burke Foundation/NatCon) went to Peter Thiel for support who then sent his chief of staff to help set up FSU
Dec 6, 2024 • 29 tweets • 10 min read
🧵The latest Republican Covid Oversight Committe provides a clear picture of the alternative reality that will soon be taking charge of US health institutions

It's worth considering the implications for the FDA when the grifters become gamekeepers 2/ It's hard to know which came first, claiming a cure for covid as a reason for removing all measures, or the grift, likely it depends on the individuals.

Lets look at a timeline of the promotion of alternative treatments that continued to be promoted once proven ineffective
Nov 7, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There has been ongoing attacks on the CCDH since they published their disinformation dozen report years ago on the biggest antivax promoters online, this named RFK Jr and others who have been embraced by MAGA appearing at a conveyor belt of conferences 2/ The campaign against CCDH comes from the GBD crowd
Nov 1, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Amazing when RW media decide to care about SEND students

When it comes to VAT on private schools they are suddenly worried about SEND pupils, but they backed austerity, the dismantling of CAHMs real terms cuts to school budgets, and loss of 20,000 support staff mainly TAs 2/ I think it was autumn 2017 we had a protest regarding SEND students being let down over 80,000 educators and SEND parents gathered outside Westminster, it didn't get a single mention in the media from any outlet
Oct 20, 2024 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 of stories on US Election

The role of the oligarchs Thiel and Musk in this election is absolutely crazy, as are the proposals from the Christian Nationalists

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Oct 7, 2024 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🧵Collateral Global is the UKs successor organisation to the GBD, original board here, a more recent addition is Kevin Bardosh

But if CG are sponsoring the Stanford event, who is funding CG? Image 2/ Initial funding for CG
Von Opels who have been large Conservative Party donors and also gave Gupta £90,000 after her April 2020 paper claiming herd immunity was on the horizon
Luke Johnson, funded anti-lockdown MPs and appeared at a Pandata event
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Sep 23, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
🧵So Shamez Ladhani, the UKs clinical lead on covid in children, member of a WHO TAG for covid in children, lead for most UK gov studies on covid in children, most cited paed in world on covid in children, has written another paper with Hoeg and Noble from Urgency of Normal Image 2/ Hoeg produced the VAERS dumpster dive that made headlines in UK about myocarditis damaging confidence in covid vax for younger age groups, member of Urgency of Normal, Norfollk Group and DeSantis/Ladapo's Ethics committee that includes GBD author Bhattacharya

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Sep 19, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵A Russian disinfo influencer promoting the Wellness Company...

Well, well, well, that is interesting...
Image 2/ Wellness Company is fronted by McCullough, of Pandata, Truth for Health Foundation and others
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Sep 5, 2024 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
This is a massive story, all the details really does call into question the MAGA cult and purveyors of disinformation in other countries In the UK we should be looking at those who have attached themselves to the US radical right, are promoting the same false narratives about gov censorship whilst promoting disinformation

More details on the FBI release here
Aug 25, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Tegnell and Bardosh also speaking
All those apararently censored and silenced academics getting another major platform

I wonder if they will be concerned there are no alternative voices to their pro-infection stance It's an effort to rewrite history, so here's some threads that cover what really happened

Airborne Transmission
Aug 10, 2024 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Toby Young’s Daily Sceptic article suggesting the anti-racism protests were state controlled public manipulation

Claims "anti-migrant" protests were completely spontaneous, the crowd in Birmingham was too white in a city where visitors are "forced to play spot the white face"


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Image 2/ Because the far-right didn't show up in numbers, that the claims of new targets was part of developing a "meta-narrative" for "collective public Muslim-loving"
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Aug 9, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
1/ When they have essentially built a campaign model and an ecosystem of opaque orgs and astroturfs around disinformation any efforts to tackle disinformation, even that which might contribute to violence on the streets, is seen as a threat 2/ For instance Kingsley has been responsible for sharing all sorts of anti-vax disinformation, for instance promoting claims by Bernie, Naomi Wolf etc

No comments or condemnation of the rioters, just outrage at tackling disinformation


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Aug 4, 2024 • 60 tweets • 20 min read
🧵Thread of threads
This is not an organic uprising of ordinary people, this is a coordinated attack, a culmination of years of disinformation and division

Note the nodes below Farage and a former Cambridge Analytica employee 2/ Also note the efforts to align this with veterans, we've seen this before...
Jul 29, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Going back to a thread on leadership contenders after Johnson resigned

Badenoch has similar backers to Braverman, culture wars crap 2/ That's why Braverman has already given up, the backers decided to go with Badenoch

Badenoch attended launch of Common Sense Society UK chapter, DeSantis was main speaker and was praised for his war on woke
Jul 26, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Phillipson cancels the Higher Ed Free Speech Act

The act was the creation of Tufton Street and Toby Young’s
Free Speech Union, and made Arif Ahmed formerly of FSU the czar responsible for regulating Free Speech across higher ed 2/ While claiming to protect free speech concerns were raised that the powers to hit people with heavy financial penalties would lead to a fear to challenge certain views

It's a lot of power to give to the whims of a single czar