{"id":41233,"date":"2018-12-03T13:55:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41233"},"modified":"2018-12-03T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:55:39","slug":"the-west-slips-down-another-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41233","title":{"rendered":"The West Slips Down Another Step"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The West Slips Down Another Step<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

There is much on the Internet these days about\u00a0documents allegedly hacked by Anonymous<\/a>; these\u00a0documents<\/a>\u00a0belong to the “Integrity Initiative” and describe a multi-country effort, funded by London and Washington, to counter “Russian propaganda” and “fake news”. Since the initial story broke, a good deal of confusion has been laid down:\u00a0Wikileaks is doubtful<\/a>, and\u00a0Anonymous itself is being evasive<\/a>. On the other hand,\u00a0Integrity Initiative doesn’t entirely deny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But even if entirely false, they would be in that curious category of “fake but true”: Integrity Initiative does actually exist and\u00a0here is its website<\/a>. It is certainly engaged in anti-Russia propaganda. It publishes articles locking the barn door after the horses have escaped: yes, “Novichok” is terribly deadly but that doesn’t mean it will kill you<\/a>. But,\u00a0if it isn’t strong enough to kill you today, it may be strong enough to kill someone four months later<\/a>. Its most memorable statement is surely this:<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has invested more operational thought, intent and resource in disinformation, in Europe and elsewhere in the democratic world, than any other single player.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A statement that would stun anyone who’s ever been in a hotel and gone channel cruising: RT’s in there somewhere along with CNN, MSNBC, Fox, BBC, DW, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, Rai and so on. A tiny voice in a bellowing crowd. But, after all, these are the people who tell us that Russia affected the US election with\u00a0one FB message per 400 million others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Integrity Initiative is one of many. We had, and still have, the\u00a0Legatum Institute<\/a>\u00a0which worried about “Russian disinformation” back in 2013<\/a>, a pair of British thinktankers two years later also worried about “Russia’s information warfare in the UK<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

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The West Slips Down Another Step There is much on the Internet these days about\u00a0documents allegedly hacked by Anonymous; these\u00a0documents\u00a0belong to the “Integrity Initiative” and describe a multi-country effort, funded by London and Washington, to counter “Russian propaganda” and “fake news”. Since the initial story broke, a good deal of confusion has been laid down:\u00a0Wikileaks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[7746,542,17074,655,694,8203,865,965],"class_list":["post-41233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-london","tag-moscow","tag-patrick-armstrong","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-washington","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41234,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions\/41234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}