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

[Gina 😷 SARS2isAirborne #VoteGreen 💚 @Saffiya_Khan1]

Lorraine asks “is this still around?” because the UKHSA, who are supposed to properly inform the public, don’t.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Another Politics UK post showing the pattern I set out yesterday in the 🧵 below.

The Guardian reported that a wider under-16s social media ban could “inadvertently” catch YouTube Kids and other sites thought to be exempt, according to anonymous sources.

Politics UK’s main post dropped “inadvertently” and led with Spotify: under-16s “could now be banned from Spotify, Lego Play and YouTube Kids under expanded Government proposals to widen the scope of its social media ban”.

The Guardian says Spotify “could technically be in scope” and has sought reassurances. The minister says there “has to be an off-ramp” for compliant platforms. Neither made the main post.

The source, the anonymous sourcing, and “not yet finalised” went in a reply.

Main post: 4.7m views. Reply: 441,000. Roughly eleven to one.

[John Bye @_johnbye]

UsForThem founder Molly Kingsley has joined the far right Restore Britain party. In the video she talks about putting people on trial over the pandemic response and locking them up for what she considers criminal behaviour. With a laundry list of old covid sceptic talking points.

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Misinformation. not an issue, not increasing, and no influence. Claims Free Speech Union report

Praising Trump's "veneration" of free speech, Toby Young's FSU supports US veto on UK requlation of misinformation during elections
https://t.co/PgolsGL3pw

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Misinformation. not an issue, not increasing, and no influence. Claims Free Speech Union report

Praising Trump's "veneration" of free speech, Toby Young's FSU supports US veto on UK requlation of misinformation during elections
https://t.co/E4hTpJK2Nh

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist!

And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!).

So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic

🧵1/25

[John Bye @_johnbye]

Useful overview of the nonsense about folic acid in flour being pushed by Clare Craig of anti-vax misinformation group HART.

Long time followers will be familiar with her dire record during the pandemic. Shockingly she's #WrongAgainClare.

https://t.co/J9JINgMxr9

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

The ULEZ bomber

15 year sentence for 100m blast radius in a residential street, but who radicalised him?

Who rolled ULEZ into 15 Minute City conspiracy theories?
https://t.co/tVslpFzBg9

[𝒫🍪𝓏𝓏𝓎𝒲𝑜𝓏𝓏𝓎 @PozzyWozzy]

From @karamballes via his substack @CDPNetworkMap

The ULEZ bomber
15 year sentence for 100m blast radius in a residential street, but who radicalised him?
https://t.co/jYuw7QRBOP

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

The ULEZ bomber

15 year sentence for 100m blast radius in a residential street, but who radicalised him?

Who rolled ULEZ into 15 Minute City conspiracy theories?
https://t.co/VDmR01Owy0

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

What really happened n the
French school riots?

@docrussjackson explains how events have been warped to fit right-wing narratives
https://t.co/t3hbgk28Ru

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

The rise of disinformation fueled
mobs

Antivaxxers at the school gates were a sign of what was to come as disinformation online increasingly takes to the streets

Are we entering an age of US style militias?
https://t.co/GECBQ1lWKk

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Why is discussing lack of
Covid vaccine access taboo in
the UK?

Guardian article criticises RFK JR while
ignoring greater restrictions in the UK

Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air
https://t.co/hQyCNnlZFB

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

It's about more than just the
£72 Million

Examing Reform's record donations and the wider third party infrastructure supporting the radical right
https://t.co/KpNdNDyHhL

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Telegraph's Knapton promotes Anti-vax letter

Letter comes from Aseem Malhotra and collective of cranks, while Toby Young and GB News' Bev Turner engage in other anti-vaX disinformation
https://t.co/Y00Wn7KMdf

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Telegraph's Knapton promotes Anti-vax letter

Letter comes from Aseem Malhotra and collective of cranks, while Toby Young and GB News' Bev Turner engage in other anti-vaX disinformation
https://t.co/7xGfOMaxYx

[John Bye @_johnbye]

The latest nonsense from Sarah Knapton at the Telegraph: a letter "coordinated" by cardio crank Aseem Malhotra, signed by such health luminaries as Woody Harrelson (who doesn't believe in viruses) and former tennis player Pat Cash (who took ivermectin throughout the pandemic).

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

Response to Mostert retraction demonstrates the rise of anti-science

Accusations of “political interference” by the Telegraph's Science Editor Sarah Knapton and Toby Young undermines science and boosters conspiracy theorists
https://t.co/iC5esbftql

[Counter Disinformation Project @CDPNetworkMap]

Response to Mostert retraction demonstrates the rise of anti-science

Accusations of “political interference” by the Telegraph's Science Editor Sarah Knapton and Toby Young undermines science and boosters conspiracy theorists
https://t.co/FA6uwXCDWm

[Reality Check Marker @RealCheckMarker]

Your political leader reclassified SARS as a "Level 1" Hazard (down from BSL-3), so they don't have to provide PPE for HCWs. Why? Because you keep blaming HCWs for not wearing PPE, instead of political leaders. #YouDoYou #MuzzledScientists #WearN95