Civil Servants Taught to Spy on Anti-Migrant Social Media Posts
Civil servants are being taught to spy on social media posts that express concern about migrants in order to stop online ‘disinformation’ and push ‘counter-narratives’. The Telegraph has more.
The Cabinet Office oversees the 6,000-strong Government Communications Service (GCS), which is responsible for pushing campaigns and policy messaging across Government departments.
The Telegraph can reveal this team is also charged with stopping online disinformation and producing “counter-narratives” to protect both departmental reputation and policy goals.
The new ‘Resist framework’ guidance instructs civil servants to monitor social media for “high-risk narratives” and gives the example of community housing concerns that could adversely affect particular ethnic groups and “new migrants”.
It also warns of online material that could “affect societal debates” about prominent issues “through polarisation”. The guidance was shared in October amid protests outside local migrant hotels following the sexual assault of a 14 year-old girl by Ethiopian hotel migrant Hadush Kebatu.
It was issued as part of a £36,000 contract between the GCS and private company Storyzy, which helps companies monitor social sites.
Examples of risks given in the guidance include the complaints “certain communities are getting priority housing while local families wait yearsˮ and “the council is secretly planning to build hundreds of units that will change our neighbourhood”.
Guidance suggests that these would pose a risk as they could “deepen existing community divisions and create new tensions between different groups”.
An example risk assessment, to be followed by civil servants, notes that such sentiments might be expressed by “local political activists attempting to build support”.
It states these narratives will have particular salience for “vulnerable audiences”, including the elderly and families in need of housing.
The guidance for civil servants goes on to provide an example of online information that could potentially cross the line from free debate to “harmful speech” – namely, the concerns of “representatives of a local parental association”.
Advice states that this hypothetical risky group could “keep posting links to some low-quality online local news sites as ‘proof’ of their arguments”, or create a closed online group for “concerned local citizens and encourage like-minded people to join”.
Alongside these examples are broader risks, including false information relating to the financial markets and malign claims about vaccine effectiveness.
The current guidance is the third iteration of the ‘Resist counter-disinformation toolkit’, funded through a European grant programme, which was first used to train civil servants in 2019. It has been updated to better reflect current risks.
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So if the civil servants are reading this, can I make clear that I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
And can I make it clear that we’re coming to get you, you will be sacked and you’ll never work again, and neither will your children for seven generations.
From the blobs at the National Preparedness Commission:
The updated RESIST 3 Framework, developed by the UK government’s communications service, offers a proactive approach for Civil Service communication professionals to combat disinformation. Central to this initiative is the Counter Disinformation Toolkit…
https://nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/news/resist-3-counter-disinformation-toolkit/
…Blobs who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw fake pandemics, planetary emergencies and peer-reviewed voodoo science. Another swamp for draining.
We resolve between now and 2030 to combat inequalities within and among countries… UNESCO Agenda 2030.
Nice welcome back to the UK for Ryan Williams ( a.k.a ‘Korean bacon guy’, lol ), as he, similar to Tommy Robinson, is faced with bogus terrorism charges just for posting his forthright views online. Remember when Starmer lied to Trump’s face stating that the UK has free speech laws and he’s ”very proud” of them?
”BREAKING: Anti-Islam activist Ryan Williams could be facing terrorism charges after being detained at London’s Heathrow Airport late Monday evening.
He’s accused of making fun of Muslims and calling out the migrant invasion in Europe.
After a lengthy interrogation and the seizure of his laptop and cell phone, the UK’s free speech cops just released him until a court date is determined.”
https://x.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/1990626840528949573
If you’re not familiar with Ryan, here he is, always calling a spade a spade;
https://x.com/koreanscot/status/1986595410358731244
I think being filterless can sometimes be to your detriment because this post here was a gift to the UK authorities and they were waiting for him. But at least he’s got balls of steel and the courage of his convictions ( but hopefully no actual convictions );
”BRITISH PEOPLE WERE THERE FOR US. I WILL BE THERE FOR THEM! 18th of NOVEMBER I WILL LAND AT HEATHROW! Flight number VS26 ARRIVAL TIME 8:10pm. I WILL ALWAYS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISLAM. TERRORISTS WILL NOT WIN THROUGH FEAR!”
https://x.com/koreanscot/status/1986891804634194025
What I find staggering is that the government employs SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE to handle “communications”. A separate service – not people doing actual work but just communicating what others are doing or deciding. Can’t the various departments communicate what they are doing themselves?
Mind you my pal works for the local county council and they have a sizeable “comms” department as he calls it, through which all announcements internal and external are meant to be filtered.
This is 6,000 people who should be visiting the job centre next week. If the government was doing a good job then actions would speak louder than words and we wouldn’t need to be told their version of what they claim to be doing.
In the old days when truth mattered this department would be labelled ‘Propaganda’ given that it is designed to lie to us.
They’re definitely down it for Ukraine as well
The truth is the enemy of the state and the establishment. That is why they fight back so hard.
Sack every last man jack of them, and save another billion.
Government gaslighting department – who needs it?
Imagine meeting someone in a social situation and they ask “So what is it that you do”?
“Oh I work in the Government Ideological Compliance and Alignment Centre”———“Oh that sounds very interesting, and have you manged to brainwash many recently and manged to instil fear into the pathetic losers that think they live in a democracy”? —–“Yes, we have been very busy this month as the weather has been particularly good for small boats full of migrants expecting to be housed and fed by the losers, oops sorry I mean taxpayers”.
Perhaps the Home Secretary might get a knock on the door from one of her own compliance officers for her recent remarks. How dare she suggest that mass immigration might be a problem that needs solving and her new measures are surely nothing but “RACISM”. —–Surely UK taxpayers should be welcoming in hundreds of thousands from all corners of the globe, and should be happy to provide them with three ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFETS per day in a 4 star hotel, and the suggestion that our own old people could have maybe kept their winter fuel allowance to help pay the extortionate electricity bills the phony planet savers have lumped us with if only we didn’t piss the money away on migrants is absurd. —-YEAH RIGHT
“Vulnerable” means they used to follow the Uniparty storyline but don’t any more.
How long before government monitors sit at the end of every street watching us as they did in apartment blocks in Russia.
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