Lockdown Conspiracy, UK Style, as in Australia By Richard Miller (London)
It is surprising that this material is getting out, given the great Covid conspiracy. But we have seen in both the US and Australia, how the governments conspired, literally with Big Tech, to censor Covid vax critics. Now, evidence has been published indicating that the same thing occurred here in the UK, with the Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU), supposedly set up to deal with domestic threats, being used to deal with Covid vax critics and critics of the lockdowns. The unit secretly worked with social media companies to squash dissent, and remove posts that the government thought was in any way problematic to them.
Really, if there was the force of truth behind the lockdowns and vaccines, there would be no need to use such fascist tactics; that they are used shows that the Covid narrative was about ringing in totalitarianism, not public health.
“A secretive government unit worked with social media companies in an attempt to curtail discussion of controversial lockdown policies during the pandemic, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU) was set up by ministers to tackle supposed domestic “threats” and was used to target those critical of lockdown and questioning the mass vaccination of children.
Critics of lockdown had posts removed from social media. There is growing suspicion that social media firms used technology to stop the posts being promoted, circulated or widely shared after being flagged by the CDU or its counterpart in the Cabinet Office.
Documents revealed under Freedom of Information (FoI) and data protection requests showed that the activities of prominent critics of the Government’s Covid policies were secretly monitored.
An artificial intelligence (AI) firm was used by the Government to scour social media sites. The company flagged discussions opposing vaccine passports.
Many of the issues being raised were valid at the time and have since been proven to be well-founded.
The BBC also took part in secretive meetings of a government policy forum to address the so-called disinformation.
On Friday, MPs and freedom of speech campaigners condemned the disclosures as “truly chilling” and “a tool for censoring British citizens” akin to those of the Chinese Communist Party.
Much of the Government’s wider work on disinformation is shrouded in secrecy for “national security” reasons. Large parts of official documents are still redacted.
In America, Twitter has released similar information showing how the US government also introduced a secretive programme to curtail discussion of Covid lockdowns.
It can now be revealed that the activities of Prof Carl Heneghan, the Oxford epidemiologist who has advised Boris Johnson, and Dr Alexandre de Figueiredo, a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), were monitored by government disinformation units.”
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