Counter Disinformation Project

Research on disinformation networks, opaquely funded think tanks and astroturfing. Focus on political and media influence

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Series threads for easier reading

1. Welcome to the Counter Disinformation Project
https://t.co/X10FrPjP2T

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Welcome to the Counter Disinformation Project

Researching and mapping disinformation networks
How did covid become a culture war?
#FollowTheDarkMoney
#DisinformationDozen
#HARTleaks
https://t.co/v9FXALLO4i

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Who is Katie Lam MP?

Conservative MP attended JD Vance drinks party with GB News owner Paul Marshall, and worked for Cambridge Analytica linked Faculty, @docrussjackson reports
https://t.co/l92C9oSXSv

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

The timelines of @_johnbye and @CDPNetworkMap have numerous records of how they go about generating money through dangerous disinformation projects.
https://t.co/8b8b2ijhTR

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Who is Katie Lam MP?

Conservative MP attended JD Vance drinks party with GB News owner Paul Marshall, and worked for Cambridge Analytica linked Faculty, @docrussjackson reports
https://t.co/fGz1NheAPZ

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

The Hantavirus test for a future pandemic

Inconsistent messaging and lapses in IPC demonstrates health authorities are still struggling to learn simple lessons from Covid
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[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

The Hantavirus test for a future pandemic

Inconsistent messaging and lapses in IPC demonstrates health authorities are still struggling to learn simple lessons from Covid
https://t.co/HytaSSytwQ

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Musings on Toxification and
coalitions

When subjects become so toxic the middleground walks away
https://t.co/8JgX1T47vU

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

NEW EXCUSE: Farage claims that the Kremlin ‘spear phished’ his bank account to reveal the 5 million Harborne donation

Another distraction. The Kremlin has been one of his biggest backers

https://t.co/emZmh2btXy

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Musings on Toxification and
coalitions

When subjects become so toxic the middleground walks away
https://t.co/oHeVg5g1Zk

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🟨 Print Edition — Hedge Funds and Tech Bros: Reform UK James Orr’s Road to Damascus

How did Nigel Farage’s head of policy move from corporate law to political religiosity?

https://t.co/g3Cf2ZlkNL

[Luke Turner @Luke_Turner]

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Network Mapping: Ben Delo and The Sanctuary

Convicted crytobro pardoned by Trump is building a network in the UK intersecting with anti-abortionists, Thiel, Bannon and Orban.
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[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Network Mapping: Ben Delo and The Sanctuary

Convicted crytobro pardoned by Trump is building a network in the UK intersecting with anti-abortionists, Thiel, Bannon and Orban.
https://t.co/HMSyHj1luX

[Helsbels @Helenus_]

@karamballes @CDPNetworkMap How Toby Young is connected to, and funded by, all the wrong people...
https://t.co/bxUbrOLr23

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

The UK has a propaganda problem.

The evidence is crystal clear: Britain is categorically NOT a “high tax, high welfare” country, benefits payments are NOT comparatively generous, yet here are just some of the misleading anti-welfare headlines from the last 24hrs (debunk below):

@GBNEWS:

- “Era of unlimited benefits”
- “Farage wages war on benefits bill”
- “It's an outrage: It is expected we look after everybody”
- “We vave this delusion that we are much wealthier than we are”
- “This will start making people throw things at their television screens”
- “Welfare pays more than work for 600,000 households as critics slam £155bn benefit bill”

@ConsPost:

- “Benefits outstrip average salary”

@BBCNews:

- “Stop families who choose not to work getting unlimited benefits”

@Telegraph (front page splash):

- “Welfare freeloading”
- “Welfare pays more than work for 600K households”

@Daily_Express:

- “600,000 UK households now getting over £32k a year in benefits” — “shocking analysis.”

#MisleadingDecontextualisedBULLSHIT

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

So Toby Young writes about protecting Jews when last week he published an article describing a convicted neo-Nazi as a "free speech martyr:

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Special Report: How the UK media embraced anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists

Mapping HART's media network, GB News, talkRADIO, Telegraph, Spectator, Daily Express, BBC etc
https://t.co/7MZGcnEuqJ

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

Brilliant. Encyclopedic.

This, 👇, was a new one on me.

@gorskon and @doritmi would do well to keep this close.

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Special Report: How the UK media embraced anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists

Mapping HART's media network, GB News, talkRADIO, Telegraph, Spectator, Daily Express, BBC etc
https://t.co/b1pHzZMU98

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Well that’s interesting - on Nathan Gill’s agenda, before the Kremlin Crypto conference, was a trip to El Salvador

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Investigating Networks: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK

Promoting my latest piece for Byline Times and explaining how the radical right is made up from a coalition of overlapping networks
https://t.co/N2t5H3vBK1