Media control: From tight to vice-like - UK Column News - 11th November 2022

- Richard D. Hall maligning by BBC: The UK terror survivors tracked down by ‘disaster trolls’ penned by Marianna Spring
- Vanessa Beeley analysis: Richard D. Hall instrumentalised to push through British state crackdown
- BBC is fighting back precisely because it grudgingly accepts that through our work, new media have acquired influence
- Connection to Alex Jones case: “abuse of victims” trope brings us back to “online harms” talking point
- Marianna Spring carefully writes that Richard Hall “inspires” others and thus “echoes” Alex Jones
- The King’s College London node of antidisinformationism
- Vanessa Beeley commentary: Consistent drive to discredit those undermining the UK Government’s role in destabilising Syria
- Always supposedly the truth (with definite article) that is under attack
- Who is Prof. Bobby Duffy, Director of The Policy Institute at King’s? Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute; was Blair’s man at Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit; seems very well connected to British government circles
- Reclaim The Net: Facebook to censor climate facts
- Vast majority of the public accept the reality of terrorist attacks in the UK — but notable minorities say they struggle to know the truth
- That wording reveals that growing numbers refuse to believe the government line on virtually anything
- Vanessa Beeley analysis: Who are the sceptics in Britain? The politically disengaged; more generally, those who get their news from social media
- Demonisation of Telegram a symptom of our being corralled into ever narrower forums where subjects can be discussed freely
- Vanessa Beeley commentary: Climate hysteria now key to narrative because it is primed to replace the flunked two-year-long Covid narrative 
- Upshot: Social media being blamed for public distrust in systematically-lying government
- 37% now believe there is a deep state
- 34% say the pandemic has made them more suspicious of official explanations of terror attacks — a statistic that can be read in many ways
- Demographic differences between the groups: a nod to the "white nationalists" scapegoat of convenience
- Twitter: a train wreck of a company
- New owner Elon Musk foresees bankruptcy unless many are laid off from Twitter
- Analysis: This reveals that Twitter has effectively been a heavily-subsidised, loss-leading political project for years; massive censorship farm, digital public square, honeypot operation
- Even Tucker Carlson has been “fact-checked” for his reporting on the Arizona election
- Twitter proven multiple times to have been working directly with government agencies
- Patrick Henningsen commentary: If Musk manages to turn it around, Twitter can certainly become a multi-trillion-dollar company
- Musk’s ultimate goal is reflotation, not free speech
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