"Fake news networks"

[EmperorDragon]

Well, I googled II and AC disinformation campaigns and came up blank. Can you elaborate on it / them please? Also, do have you any supporting evidence for your assertion that the BBC is "one of the most notorious fake news networks"?

Cheers,


RM

The Integrity Initiative/Institute of Statecraft scandal was quite widely reported (not on the Beeb, of course). Even Google (known for deranking inconvenient truths) returns varied results. Several BBC staff were involved.

Quickly pulled from Google (I prefer DuckDuckGo and Cryptome.org):

https://www.globalresearch.ca/inside-th ... ar/5663465
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article ... r-playbook
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-a ... -see-this/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn1rwgBJKPs

The Atlantic Council is an already well-known NATO-funded propaganda "think-tank" (these "think-tanks" tend to spring up like moss after a rainy season whenever there's a war to be started).

But as I said, it's always best to go places and investigate yourself. The most accurate source of information is your own pair of eyes, they cannot lie to you.

EDIT: In short, it's basically the modern-day equivalent of Operation Mockingbird (yes, fake news and disinformation is nothing new, not at all).

[RegisterMe]

The Integrity Initiative/Institute of Statecraft scandal was quite widely reported (not on the Beeb, of course). Even Google (known for deranking inconvenient truths) returns varied results. Several BBC staff were involved.

Quickly pulled from Google (I prefer DuckDuckGo and Cryptome.org):

https://www.globalresearch.ca/inside-th ... ar/5663465
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article ... r-playbook
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-a ... -see-this/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn1rwgBJKPs

The Atlantic Council is an already well-known NATO-funded propaganda "think-tank" (these "think-tanks" tend to spring up like moss after a rainy season whenever there's a war to be started).

But as I said, it's always best to go places and investigate yourself. The most accurate source of information is your own pair of eyes, they cannot lie to you.

EDIT: In short, it's basically the modern-day equivalent of Operation Mockingbird (yes, fake news and disinformation is nothing new, not at all).

Thanks for taking the time to reply. It's all a little tinfoil hat for my liking but I appreciate the effort and the perspective.

* "Global Research" is, to use Rational Wiki's description a "crank magnet". Note the comments on it being on the anti-spam list for English Wikipedia (because of its frequent and recurring inaccuracies), and it's frequent repeating of Russian propaganda.
* The Morning Star is... reliably the Morning Star. I'm not going to claim that it's crank land, or conspiratorial, but it is obviously and openly extremely left wing in its perspective and reporting.
* I know nothing about The Canary other than what I can read about it on wikipedia. I note that the article you linked to offered no sources. The Institute of Statecraft sounds like some half-arsed moody charity that probably shouldn't be either a charity or receiving funding from governments (assuming that it actually does), either way, if it's trying to orchestrate some kind of global conspiracy it's not doing a very good job of it.

You'll no doubt disagree with me but from my perspective, with the exception of the Morning Star, all of those above are far closer to the "fake news" end of the spectrum than the BBC.