{"id":66144,"date":"2023-11-15T07:28:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66144"},"modified":"2023-11-15T07:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:28:44","slug":"uk-files-reports-show-both-left-and-right-can-be-targets-of-censors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66144","title":{"rendered":"“UK Files” Reports Show: Both Left and Right Can Be Targets of Censors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“UK Files” Reports Show: Both Left and Right Can Be Targets of Censors<\/a><\/h3>\n

American audiences may struggle with the particulars, but leaked Labour Party documents detail how “anti-disinformation” can be weaponized in all directions<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Britain\u2019s Jeremy Corbyn was undone, among other things, by accusations of antisemitism<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Just as some denizens of George Orwell\u2019s\u00a0Animal Farm\u00a0<\/em>were more equal than others, Britain\u2019s\u00a0Center for Countering Digital Hate<\/a>\u00a0stands out among the fast-growing list of organizations dedicated to the global elimination of wrongthink, commonly described using terms like\u00a0disinformation, hate,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0lies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently the target of a\u00a0lawsuit by X<\/a>, the CCDH was and is a conspicuous recurring character in the Twitter Files, where among other things it organized a relentless campaign against Robert Kennedy, Jr. and others deemed purveyors of vaccine disinformation. Recently, they also appeared in articles\u00a0bemoaning<\/a>\u00a0a judicial decision enjoining the government from engaging with platforms on digital censorship.<\/p>\n

CCDH reports and correspondence are distinguished by a unique tone of fevered indignation, as if members were consumed with rage at a world that hadn\u2019t yet deleted disfavored accounts. Their methods, issuing bullhorn demands for total social defenestration through a vast and cleverly courted network of mainstream press allies, represent a perfected template for the modern \u201canti-disinformation\u201d organization: moral absolutists unafraid to use accusations of bigotry as a political weapon.<\/p>\n

When British investigative journalist Paul Holden approached\u00a0Racket\u00a0<\/em>with a story based on leaked documents showing the secret history of the CCDH, I was intrigued, but it wasn\u2019t until I saw the first drafts that I realized the story\u2019s importance. Holden is in possession of a wealth of internal correspondence about Britain\u2019s Labour Party, in character and politics a near-exact analog to our Democratic Party…<\/p>\n

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“UK Files” Reports Show: Both Left and Right Can Be Targets of Censors American audiences may struggle with the particulars, but leaked Labour Party documents detail how “anti-disinformation” can be weaponized in all directions Britain\u2019s Jeremy Corbyn was undone, among other things, by accusations of antisemitism Just as some denizens of George Orwell\u2019s\u00a0Animal Farm\u00a0were more […]<\/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":[34001,120,34002,3717,3733,33825,33536,34000],"class_list":["post-66144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ccdh","tag-censorship","tag-centre-for-countering-digital-hate","tag-disinformation","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-racket-news","tag-twitter-files","tag-uk-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66144","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=66144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66145,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66144\/revisions\/66145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}