The Center for Countering Digital Hate is one of the groups allegedly dedicated to fighting all this malicious info out there. In effect their job is to provide talking points for those who want to censor. Often tied to COVID and vaccines, but it could be anything. How much they even maintain a façade of dealing with "digital hate" (fingers that don't like toes?) is open to debate.
Founded by a British figure in the UK's Labour Party. This country can't even produce its own propagandists anymore?
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The story about Imran Ahmed is especially ugly - as the name behind the political destruction of both Jeremy Corbin as Labour Leader and Robt. F. Kennedy, Jr's run for the presidential nomination in 2019, he is most certainly a serious troublemaker to say the least. A comparison to Christopher Steele might be an apt one considering the latter's involvement in falsifying documents for fun and profit.
These stories are essentially just the tip of the iceberg of 'the censorship industrial complex'; there are so many agencies devoted to misinforming the public at this point it really takes specialist journalists to track them down. Real conspiracies are too crazy for normal people, not crazy enough for conspiracy theorists, and much too confusing for both groups. History is stuffed with actual conspiracies by large organisations and governments and to believe otherwise, would be idiotic and uninformed.
It looks as though the US thinks it needs more propagandists than it can generate on its own.
RFK Jr. may turn out to be an airhead who had a few lucky guesses, although he was exciting for a while. Still, he must have spooked someone. As for dragging down Jeremy Corbyn, well, that made room for Keir Starmer. Starmer is such a stooge that he'll never even consider stepping out of line when it comes to what American politicians want to do in the world. Ahmed might be similar to Steele, but more insidious since his personal profile is low.
The thing about these agencies devoted to misinforming the public is that they're quick to make friends in media outlets. So while specialist journalists might be out there working to expose them, they get drowned out by pet journalists who can be told what to say. Most conspiracy theories are vapid because they don't take into account individual motives, but anyone who thinks that conspiracies don't happen could only have met ten or twelve people in the course of their lives.
Propaganda is a big industry. We're still finding out just how big.
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