Secretive Covid-era ‘spy’ agency brought in to monitor social media during riots

A secretive government agency used to “spy on” anti-lockdown campaigners during the Covid pandemic has been deployed to monitor social media amid the riots, The Telegraph has learnt.

The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), now rebranded as the National Security Online Information Team (NSOIT), has been given the task just months after MPs called for an independent review of its activities.

Campaigners have expressed concern that NSOIT is playing a central role in the riots response despite outstanding questions over whether it is fit for purpose.

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Community Note on X Exposes The Guardian’s Hypocrisy Regarding ‘Two-Tier Policing’ in the UK

One of the most helpful and interesting features of X since Elon Musk took over Twitter and transformed it is Community Notes. Most of the time, the feature serves as a way to hold users and media outlets accountable for what they say on the platform, often with a nice dose of snark. Granted, it doesn’t work sometimes, but Community Notes has been useful and often fun.

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What is Elon Musk’s game plan?

X can feel like two parallel universes at times.

There’s the version where the president of the United States chooses the platform to announce he won’t be running for re-election. That’s the one where the worldwide authority on a particular subject uses X to offer their expert take on unfolding events.

And then there’s the version where false claims, hate and conspiracy theories, including many posts relating to the recent riots and protests across the UK, are recommended to millions who have made absolutely no attempt to seek them out.

At the centre of it all is X’s owner Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest people. But this isn’t just a story about the monetisation strategy and algorithms employed by X under his tenure and how they are boosting divisive content.


Someone is very afraid they have lost control of the narrative.

h/t Patti Jo

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UK: Home Office Minister Jess Phillips under fire for ‘excusing masked thugs’

A Home Office minister has been accused of excusing the behaviour of masked activists who forced a live Sky News broadcast off air.

Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister and Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, was criticised for “justifying” the actions of the men, one of whom who appeared to be carrying a large bat.

In a clip shared online, a man sped up on a motorbike behind the Sky News presenter Becky Johnson as she reported on hundreds of Muslims forming a protective ring around a mosque in Birmingham.

England is toast and Canada will be soon unless Trudeau and the Liberal Party are jailed.

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The Tories’ Immigration Policies Spawned This Chaos

Despite promises to control immigration, Britain is now a different nation than it was when the Tories took power in 2010.

Britain is burning. Riots and spasms of ethnic violence have engulfed towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland, spurred on by anti-immigration protests, and — subsequently — the mobilization of Muslim militias to counter the primarily white British perpetrators.

As the protests turned violent in more than a dozen towns and cities — “injuring dozens of police officers, looting businesses, targeting mosques and setting fires outside a hotel that housed asylum seekers,” the New York Times reported — videos online (largely ignored by the legacy media) began to emerge of armed African and Arab gangs, often masked and clothed in all-blackprowling the streetsbeating protestors (often viciously), attacking pubsfighting policechanting “Allahu Akbar,” and even appearing to target lone white Britons at random.

Just as Trudeau has done to Canada.

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No. This is NOT just “far right thuggery”

What the reaction to Britain’s immigration protests tell us about the elite class

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”, so wrote George Orwell in his classic book 1984. This is the quote that came to mind as I watched Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour government struggle to respond to protests that erupted after three girls were brutally murdered by the son of Rwandan migrants.

But why this quote?

Because that’s exactly what Keir Starmer and much of the elite class are now asking us to do —reject the evidence of our eyes and ears.

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‘Nowhere to hide’ for influencers behind disorder – top prosecutor

The director of public prosecutions says his teams will consider seeking the extradition of social media influencers allegedly playing a role in the violent disorder gripping the UK from abroad.

Stephen Parkinson told the BBC that offenders “must know that they are not safe and there is nowhere to hide”.

He added that anybody involved in the violence should know they would face the most severe possible criminal charges, including terrorism.

h/t Patti Jo

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Thousands of police braced for far-right riots

More than 6,000 riot police will be put on standby overnight as far-right protesters prepare to target more than 30 immigration centres across Britain.

Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, has warned that police will take “all necessary action” after a list of potential targets for co-ordinated action was circulated online. The officers being mobilised on Tuesday night include 2,200 who can be deployed to support colleagues regionally and locally.

Senior police sources admitted that the “outlook is bad” for the coming 24 hours but insisted that they were “ready to respond” and had more resources on standby than last week. “We need to be ready,” they added.

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Conservatives demand government explain how terror suspects immigrated to Canada

Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer says Canadians have a right to know how a man with links to a foreign terror group evaded Canada’s screening process to immigrate to Canada and become a citizen.

Sixty-two-year-old Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi and his adult son, Mostafa Eldidi, were arrested in Richmond Hill, Ont. last week and face nine different terrorism charges, including conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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Federal government announces crackdown on temporary foreign worker program misuse

Canadian Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault announced Tuesday that the government is cracking down on Canada’s temporary foreign worker program in a bid to curb fraud.

The temporary foreign worker (TFW) program has ballooned over the years, with much higher use by non-agricultural sectors, such as fast food restaurants and health care providers. With the increased use, there have been mounting allegations that the program is being misused by some employers.

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Elon Musk targets Keir Starmer AGAIN in another barrage of tweets comparing Britain to the Soviet Union

Elon Musk has hit back again at Sir Keir Starmer in the row over his claims that Britain is on the brink of an ‘inevitable’ civil war by accusing the British police of two-tier policing in a tweet to 196million people.

The billionaire also compared the UK to the Soviet Union because of arrests over what people have been saying on Facebook as riots break out across the UK.

He even shared a Family Guy meme and joked that Britain might bring back the death penalty for social media posts that offend politicians. Sharing an image of Peter Griffin in the electric chair he said: ‘In 2030 for making a Facebook comment that the UK government didn’t like’.

I don’t care how many shoe stores are looted. I am sticking with the Brits.

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Religious leaders who helped ignite violence by advocating for open borders unite to condemn UK riots they helped cause …

Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders unite to condemn UK riots

The “hatred, violence and vandalism” seen during riots across the country are a “stain on our national moral conscience”, the country’s most senior religious leaders have said.

The Chief Rabbi, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster have joined two of Britain’s most prominent Sunni and Shia imams in a letter to The Times to praise those who volunteered to repair damage caused by rioters, and to condemn the violence.

Step away from the Kumbaya Kool-Aid boys the crocodile will not eat you last.

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FORSETH: Too many, too soon… half the country calls for immigration slow down

Canadians are divided over record-high immigration numbers. Despite growing community resentment, the NDP-Liberal government plans to admit 485,000 in 2024, 500,000 in 2025, and then stabilize at the 500,000 level. This policy is irresponsible.

The community experience is that these levels must be lowered to achieve social integration, job market balance, and reasonable housing. Historically, 250,000 immigrants and 20,000 refugees worked and this was supported by Canadians.

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Two Tier Policing Row: Police must tackle all sides in riots with ‘equal ferocity’ says senior officer

Forces must tackle all sides involved in civil disorder with “equal ferocity” a police leader has said, amid a row over “two-tier” policing.

It comes after around 200 mainly Muslim men, some wearing balaclavas and shouting “Free Palestine” or “Allahu Akbar” gathered in the Bordesley area of Birmingham following false rumours that a far-Right march was planned in the area.

But concern was raised when videos began circulating showing one man carrying what appeared to be a large sword and a Sky News crew broadcasting live being forced off the air by masked men.

Bullshit they will.

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WTF?

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