{"id":42830,"date":"2019-01-16T09:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42830"},"modified":"2019-01-16T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:48:28","slug":"integrity-initiative-and-affiliates-behind-multiple-attacks-on-disobedient-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42830","title":{"rendered":"Integrity Initiative And Affiliates Behind Multiple Attacks On Disobedient Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav id=\"flash-breadcrumbs\" class=\"breadcrumb-trail breadcrumbs\">\n<div class=\"tg-container\">\n<h3 class=\"trail-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2019\/01\/integrity-initiative-and-affiliates-behind-multiple-attacks-on-disobedient-media\/\">Integrity Initiative And Affiliates Behind Multiple Attacks On Disobedient Media<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div class=\"tg-container\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-14461\" class=\"post-14461 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-europe category-global-chess tag-atlantic-council tag-britain tag-dfrlab tag-disinformation tag-el-pais tag-eu-army tag-facebook tag-gchq tag-integrity-initiative tag-intelligence tag-nato tag-propaganda tag-russiagate tag-russian-hacking tag-trump-russia-collusion tag-united-kingdom\">\n<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4k-big-ben-london-in-night-traffic-on-westminster-bridge-british-old-clock_b_z3ughoe_thumbnail-full01.png?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4k-big-ben-london-in-night-traffic-on-westminster-bridge-british-old-clock_b_z3ughoe_thumbnail-full01.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4k-big-ben-london-in-night-traffic-on-westminster-bridge-british-old-clock_b_z3ughoe_thumbnail-full01.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4k-big-ben-london-in-night-traffic-on-westminster-bridge-british-old-clock_b_z3ughoe_thumbnail-full01.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4k-big-ben-london-in-night-traffic-on-westminster-bridge-british-old-clock_b_z3ughoe_thumbnail-full01.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4k-big-ben-london-in-night-traffic-on-westminster-bridge-british-old-clock_b_z3ughoe_thumbnail-full01.png?w=1560&amp;ssl=1 1560w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content-block\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Last month, an anonymous hacking group published a slew of documents that revealed a vast operation by the Integrity Initiative and its parent group, the Institute for Statecraft. The organizations and their slew of affiliates sought to propagandize a Western audience by crafting false narratives, creating smears out of whole cloth, and in all of these efforts, backed by the UK intelligence community. In other words, make psychological warfare sound like journalism, while accusing Russia of the same.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The influence of the group and its contacts stretches from news outlets in Europe to Washington DC insiders to Silicon Valley. Multiple reports published by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/XQ2lj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grayzone<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.vn\/DC3mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Socialist Website<\/a> and others map this infinite array of relationships, which we will not endeavor to outline in full here.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation is not merely an embarrassment to some factions within the British intelligence community, but represents a glimpse into the inner workings of the propaganda machine that keeps the plutocratic class in <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/xmlj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">control of the public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/SRrxu#selection-163.0-169.100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Pilger<\/a> once wrote of Edward Bernays, the founder of modern propaganda: <em>\u201cBernays\u2019 influence extended far beyond advertising. His greatest success was his role in convincing the American public to join the slaughter of the First World War. The secret, he said, was \u201cengineering the consent\u201d of people in order to \u201ccontrol and regiment [them] according to our will without their knowing about it. He described this as \u201cthe true ruling power in our society\u201d and called it an \u201cinvisible government.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is this same invisible controlling force that has been exposed at work in the anonymous hack of the Integrity Initiative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/XQ2lj#selection-549.0-566.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grayzone\u2019s<\/a> Mohamed Elmaazi and Max Blumenthal summarized the scandal, writing:\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrity Initiative And Affiliates Behind Multiple Attacks On Disobedient Media Last month, an anonymous hacking group published a slew of documents that revealed a vast operation by the Integrity Initiative and its parent group, the Institute for Statecraft. The organizations and their slew of affiliates sought to propagandize a Western audience by crafting false narratives, [&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":[6],"tags":[93,2299,15091,248,18022,281,3446,23984,16251,23264,7743,655,9727,865],"class_list":["post-42830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-britain","tag-control","tag-disobedient-media","tag-edward-bernays","tag-elizabeth-vos","tag-europe","tag-false-narratives","tag-grayzone","tag-institute-for-statecraft","tag-integrity-initiative","tag-john-pilger","tag-propaganda","tag-uk-intelligence","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42830","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=42830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42831,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42830\/revisions\/42831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}