{"id":41695,"date":"2018-12-15T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41695"},"modified":"2018-12-15T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:05:27","slug":"leaked-memo-touts-uk-funded-firms-ability-to-create-untraceable-news-sites-for-infowar-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41695","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Memo Touts UK-Funded Firm&#8217;s Ability To Create &#8220;Untraceable&#8221; News Sites For &#8220;Infowar Campaign&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-12-14\/leaked-memo-touts-uk-funded-firms-ability-create-untraceable-news-sites-infowar\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Leaked Memo Touts UK-Funded Firm&#8217;s Ability To Create &#8220;Untraceable&#8221; News Sites For &#8220;Infowar Campaign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"4127\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"4127\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The hacking collective known as &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; has published more\u00a0explosive documents\u00a0detailing a UK-based psyop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-23\/anonymous-exposes-uk-led-psyop-battle-russian-propaganda\">to create<\/a> a &#8220;<strong>large-scale information secret service<\/strong>&#8221; in Europe in order to combat &#8220;Russian propaganda&#8221; <em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0which has been blamed for everything from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jun\/17\/why-isnt-there-greater-outrage-about-russian-involvement-in-brexit\">Brexit<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Trump winning the 2016 US election to this month&#8217;s anti-Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-08\/pro-russia-social-media-takes-aim-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage\">&#8220;Yellow Vest&#8221; protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-23\/anonymous-exposes-uk-led-psyop-battle-russian-propaganda\">detailed the first trove of documents<\/a> which were dumped online November 5th to the site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberguerrilla.org\/blog\/operation-integrity-initiative-british-informational-war-against-all-part-2\/\"><em>Cyberguerilla<\/em><\/a>, revealing the private UK organization with deep government ties, the\u00a0Integrity Initiative, to be engaged in an aggressive campaign to organize\u00a0<strong>&#8220;clusters&#8221; of journalists across the West engaged in\u00a0\u201ccounter-propaganda\u201d efforts<\/strong> on social media networks and in media. And now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberguerrilla.org\/blog\/operation-integrity-initiative-british-informational-war-against-all-part-3\/\">a new trove of leaked Integrity Initiative documents<\/a>\u00a0has been dumped online\u00a0Friday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Combatting%20Russian%20Disinformation%201_0.png?itok=asSMsPa6\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Combatting%20Russian%20Disinformation%201_0.png?itok=asSMsPa6\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Combatting%20Russian%20Disinformation%201_0.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Combatting%20Russian%20Disinformation%201_0.png?itok=asSMsPa6 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"07fdee78-b4d7-4a9a-9d06-7e6b59f91de2\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>&#8220;Combatting Russian Disinformation&#8221; &#8211; Screenshot from a bombshell newly leaked document published Friday and hosted on the Cyberguerilla site.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"ac-lre-player-ph\">\n<div id=\"ac-lre-wrapper\" class=\"pumika\">\n<div id=\"ac-player-ph\">\n<div id=\"ac-player-wrapper\" class=\"yui3-cssreset\">\n<div id=\"ac-lre-player\" class=\"jwplayer jw-reset jw-state-paused jw-stretch-uniform jw-breakpoint-2 jw-flag-play-rejected jw-flag-user-inactive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"application\" aria-label=\"Video Player\">\n<div class=\"jw-wrapper jw-reset\">\n<div class=\"jw-title jw-reset\">\n<div class=\"jw-title-primary jw-reset\">This week the Integrity Initiative and its founding parent organization, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statecraft.org.uk\/about-us\">Institute for Statecraft<\/a>\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>which is known for its close relationship with the UK military and defense officials\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/dec\/13\/foreign-office-alan-duncan-denies-state-funds-went-to-twitter-account-criticising-labour-integrity-initiative\">at the center of\u00a0debate in the House of Commons<\/a> over its anti-Corbyn and anti-Labour smears\u00a0involving labeling party leader Jeremy Corbyn\u00a0<em><strong>a \u201cuseful idiot\u201d for Moscow<\/strong><\/em>, even <strong>while the company is a recipient of official Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) funding<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The early November online leaks of confidential\u00a0Integrity Initiative documents were the first to reveal the UK government&#8217;s relationship to the private project devoted to &#8220;fighting\u00a0Russian disinformation&#8221;. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/dec\/13\/foreign-office-alan-duncan-denies-state-funds-went-to-twitter-account-criticising-labour-integrity-initiative\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>:<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>FCO funding of the Integrity Initiative was revealed by a set of stolen documents posted online last month by hackers under the banner of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/anonymous\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\">Anonymous<\/a>\u00a0hacktivist collective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"4127\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"4127\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<div id=\"ac-lre-player-ph\">\n<div id=\"ac-lre-wrapper\" class=\"pumika\">\n<div id=\"ac-player-ph\">\n<div id=\"ac-player-wrapper\" class=\"yui3-cssreset\">\n<div id=\"ac-lre-player\" class=\"jwplayer jw-reset jw-state-paused jw-stretch-uniform jw-breakpoint-2 jw-flag-play-rejected jw-flag-user-inactive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"application\" aria-label=\"Video Player\">\n<div class=\"jw-wrapper jw-reset\">\n<div class=\"jw-title jw-reset\">\n<div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked Memo Touts UK-Funded Firm&#8217;s Ability To Create &#8220;Untraceable&#8221; News Sites For &#8220;Infowar Campaign&#8221; The hacking collective known as &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; has published more\u00a0explosive documents\u00a0detailing a UK-based psyop to create a &#8220;large-scale information secret service&#8221; in Europe in order to combat &#8220;Russian propaganda&#8221; \u2014\u00a0which has been blamed for everything from\u00a0Brexit\u00a0to\u00a0Trump winning the 2016 US election to [&hellip;]<\/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":[2072,5582,3717,7844,281,23506,23264,2324,23507,655,694,2080,4318],"class_list":["post-41695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-anonymous","tag-brexit","tag-disinformation","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-infowar-campaign","tag-integrity-initiative","tag-journalists","tag-leaked-memo","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695","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=41695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41696,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695\/revisions\/41696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}