{"id":42768,"date":"2019-01-15T06:02:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42768"},"modified":"2019-01-15T06:02:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:02:03","slug":"integrity-initiative-by-all-means-smear-attack-but-at-least-be-honest-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42768","title":{"rendered":"Integrity Initiative: By all means smear & attack, but at least be honest about it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Integrity Initiative: By all means smear & attack, but at least be honest about it<\/a><\/h3>\n
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We’ve all met those people who describe themselves as laid back, when in reality they’re just one loud noise from a mouth frothing breakdown. So when something describes itself as having integrity, be wary.<\/div>\n
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Enter the Integrity Initiative (II), Britain’s very own government funded influence network which is currently in the process of having its underpants revealed to the world. There’s no doubting it’s an initiative, the jury’s out on the other bit. Some of the people behind it are alleged former spies (can you be a former spy?), a calling not often linked to integrity.<\/p>\n

There’s a good chance you may not know much about the Integrity Initiative, the mainstream media is not exactly straining to tell you about it. Labour MP Chris Williamson suggests that’s because a number of mainstream journalists have signed up to work with it.<\/p>\n

Media not covering Integrity Initiative scandal because they might be \u2018involved\u2019 \u2013 Labour MP to RT<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>The only time II briefly attracted the attention of the mainstream world was when it became clear it had been pushing conspiracies about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s links to the Kremlin. That’s not a good look for an organization which receives cash from the Foreign Office.<\/p>\n

It describes itself as non-partisan, but then as we’ve discussed, it also has “Integrity<\/em>” in the title. Maybe it can get away with it, always worth a try I suppose. It also claims to be “combating propaganda and disinformation<\/em>,” but as you’ll see for yourself on its Twitter account, it’s simply a stream of invective and criticism about Russia. If you want to spend cash smearing an entire nation, fine, fill your boots, but don’t then act all moral about it.<\/p>\n

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Integrity Initiative: By all means smear & attack, but at least be honest about it \u00a9\u00a0 AFP \/ GERARD JULIEN We’ve all met those people who describe themselves as laid back, when in reality they’re just one loud noise from a mouth frothing breakdown. So when something describes itself as having integrity, be wary. Enter […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[93,18680,23264,496,512,8114,694,23952],"class_list":["post-42768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-britain","tag-british-foreign-office","tag-integrity-initiative","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-rt-news","tag-russia","tag-simon-rite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768","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=42768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42769,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768\/revisions\/42769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}