Labour Targets Anti-Migrant Protesters With Terrorist Tracking Software
A shadowy ‘disinformation’ unit in Whitehall used tools created to hunt for jihadists to find critics of asylum hotels. The Telegraph has more.
The secretive team was this week revealed to have flagged ‘concerning’ narratives about migrants to tech platforms during the Southport riots.
The disclosure prompted the Trump administration and US congressmen to warn of a free speech crackdown in Britain.
The Telegraph can now reveal that some of the tools used by the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) were originally developed to hunt terrorists.
In 2017, ministers commissioned Faculty, an AI firm, to help search for recruitment videos posted by Isil.
At the time, use of the technology was strictly limited to stopping British social media users from encountering grisly beheading videos and calls to commit acts of terrorism.
The firm developed tools that could automatically spot Islamic State content spreading online, so it could be flagged to tech companies by the Government.
The same firm has since been awarded a £2.3m contract to develop a “counter disinformation data platform” to look for posts that pose a “national security and public safety risk”.
The Telegraph has established that the platform is a direct descendant of the tool used by the UK Government to hunt for terrorists in 2017, although it has since been improved and updated.
A video released by Faculty shows Matt Collins, the current UK deputy National Security Adviser, explaining that the tool was required to prevent the spread of terrorist ideology.
“We had a concerted effort to basically encourage social media companies to do more to remove content which was radicalising individuals to either travel to Syria or to conduct terrorist attacks,” he said.
Faculty is understood to have sold the software to the Government to monitor foreign interference in elections, but has no power to stop it from being used for domestic purposes.
A second firm enlisted to monitor online trends was Global Strategy Network, an intelligence outfit established by Richard Barrett, the former MI6 head of global counter-terrorism.
The company has been used to look for content that could pose a risk to public safety, which includes posts about migrant hotels during the riots.
On Thursday, the Telegraph revealed emails between the NSOIT and TikTok, which showed officials in August last year raising concerns about posts that could incite violence.
They included posts about asylum hotels and reference to “two-tier” policing of protest, which later became a damaging political critique of Sir Keir Starmer’s government.
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We’re all terrorists now.
I wonder when it will dawn on Two-Tier and Harmer that they can’t arrest and imprison the entire working class for saying something about the criminal migrant invasion which they don’t approve of.
The Soviets did.
To be fair… the Soviets had Siberia and the gulags. We’ve got the Orkneys, I suppose, and Covid demonstrated we have plenty who would be guards.
They don’t intend to arrest us all – they are trying to keep us quiet and subservient while they replace us.
They will try…..
Probably not until the country burns from end to end and they are fleeing to board the plane sent by Napoleon Macaroon to pick them up.
Remember poor and hungry Sri Lanka.
Two-tier policing! There! I’ll expect a visit from plod any day soon.
Tracey Connelly is the canary in the coalmine.
I think you mean Lucy.Connolly.
oops! Yes….not concentrating. Thanks.
I suppose I’d better not publish my plans for a terrorist outrage on Faceache…
Is there a way of getting on the dictators’ lists without being spotted by their cameras and identified by the software. I am concerned that I have not yet been oin any demoinctratioin so they might not know I oppose the policies of the elites and I would not want them to under estimate the degree of opposition to them.
While writing can I ask if DS or TY have ever been asked by the government propaganda departments to take dow, not post or restrict any news item. Are they subject to any injunctions.
Good questions though part of the injunction might be that they can’t say. Comments on a Kate Middleton article disappeared without explanation.
I suppose a ‘concerning narrative’ can get you ten years in communist Britain.
Bless these patriotic men and their efforts. I can see them getting a referral to Prevent! The fact they’re sticking all these flags up in highly ‘multicultural’ Birmingham is even better, lol….In the comments it says you can drop flags off at the Weoley Castle pub and they’ll put them up;
”These are the men from Weoley Castle who are filling the streets of Birmingham with England flags. If you’ve seen the recent vids of flag-lined streets then these are the people responsible. Keep it up lads!”
https://x.com/drhingram/status/1951938318431650002
Oh my days! 😮 This is getting serious now;
https://x.com/wolsned/status/1950795151221371158
Things are getting worse for Stasi, his chief of staff’s family is in trouble.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14965707/Keir-Starmer-aide-smuggling-gangs-asylum-seekers.html
‘Policing with contempt’
Has clearly replaced the long-standing concept of:
‘Policing by consent’
Which has underpinned life in our country since the police service was introduced.
The heavy-handed use of the police by Mr Starmer and his cronies is developing from the behaviour of Mr Johnson and his cronies in 2020.
Eventually this broken system will breakdown.
Amen to that. Broken? I’m not so sure. The system is what the system does, not what some talking head says it does.
“A shadowy ‘disinformation’ unit in Whitehall used tools created to hunt for jihadists to find critics of asylum hotels”
Well they’re going to have their work cut out as that must be at least half the population. 30+ million is a lot of people to be snooping on.