Government Confirms Covid ‘Disinformation Unit’ is in “Daily Contact With Online Providers”

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has confirmed that the Government's disinformation unit is "working", after suggestions from Labour that the counter disinformation policy was scrapped in the summer.

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Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has said that the Government’s disinformation unit is “working”, after suggestions from Labour that the counter disinformation policy was scrapped in the summer. The Telegraph has the story.

“It’s not the case, it’s not true – it is there, it is working,” Nadine Dorries told the Commons in response to a question from Alex Davies-Jones, the Labour MP.

“That work takes place daily, and daily we work to remove content online that is harmful and particularly when it comes to COVID-19, [and] daily we have contact with the online providers.”

A Government spokesman had previously said ministers are “providing people with advice and information about vaccines in one of the most extensive public health campaigns ever launched.”

It’s a relief to hear the Ministry of Truth is fully operational, ensuring that the Government’s public health messages, which are always accurate and honest and never exaggerated or in hock to unions or pressure groups, cannot be questioned or contradicted by citizens, which would naturally cause grave harm to the people, comrades. Orwell would be proud.

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Newman20
Newman20
4 years ago

What an obnoxious woman Dorries is.

Misty Optic
Misty Optic
4 years ago

“The Government’s Disinformation Unit”?
I thought the Government WAS a disinformation unit in its own right, across the board.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

Is this like the Ministry of Truth?

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

I suppose under Keir Starmer we could expect a visit from the police for posts on here.

Going to repeat the 90% lie again then, Peking Piffle?

LonePatriot
LonePatriot
4 years ago

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko said anyone that willfully vilified and obstructed access to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 is guilty of first degree capital murder, genocide, and crimes against humanity. They are trying to jab as many people as possible so that their great reset aka depopulation plan work. I believe in God & Jesus. If I get sick I will take my Ivermectin that I stashed just in case and leave rest to God. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com

Hopeless
Hopeless
4 years ago

Dorries; “tough on the BBC”. Humbug. The BBC are one of the government’s finest propaganda conduits.

RedhotScot
RedhotScot
4 years ago

Fuckers!

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago

This topic – censorship and Big Brother growing ever Bigger – is THE story going forward.

One assumes at some point COVID will pass. However, this move to an Orwellian world will continue and, one presumes, accelerate.

We think we’ve seen mass “harm” already …

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Not to get too political, but I would note that it seems to be “liberals” who are the greatest cheerleaders of all this censorship. I’m not liberal, but I always liked the fact that many liberals in the past were pro free speech, anti-censorship, and didn’t seem to trust authority or the pronouncements of government officials. This is where/how the whole “anti-war” movement in the Vietnam War grew so large.

Where did those former activists go? They switched sides as far as I can tell.

I’ve also been struck by the silence of Rock and Roll musicians, who in the past were famous activists. This group also endorses all these totalitarian measures, or, at least, doesn’t criticize any of these trends. There are two exceptions to this: Vann Morrison and Eric Clapton. And what was the consequence for these rock icons speaking out? They were unmercifully attacked and “cancelled” by our New Normal culture.

I also wonder what would John Lennon be saying if he was still alive? Personally, I don’t think he would be singing the praises of Anthony Fauci.

P.S. I also admire Roger Waters, the front man for Pink Floyd, for standing up for Julian… Read more »

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

John Lennon was one of the most outspoken globalists, even wrote a song about it called Imagine, don’t know how he would answer the censorship to get there though

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

He also wrote a great song called Gimme Some Truth. And he didn’t trust any of the U.S. government BS on the Vietnam War. And he was under constant government surveillance. I’m pretty sure he would be on “our” side … or I like to think he would have been. Plus, he was brave. He DID take positions that risked his popularity and even his freedom.

Tee Ell
Tee Ell
4 years ago

Nadine “Herd immunity doesn’t exist” Dorries. What a twunt.

RedhotScot
RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

Mooooooooooo…….

Susan
Susan
4 years ago

And who might those “pressure groups” be, Will?
Let’s not pretend it’s the unions and lower-case “pressure groups” who are running this scam.

J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

Exactly as predicted, they’ve locked up Djokovic – not quite in the gulag yet, but in a squalid hotel.

I think the chances are high now that they will force him to test, then “hey presto!” a false positive before being slammed in the gulag.

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

I cannot see that happening. How can they force him to test?

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Australia – The Land Down Under that USED to be on the “bucket list” of millions of world travelers.

Does this nation not know what it is doing? What they will reap?

Arum
Arum
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

According to the BBC he’s a leading antivaxxer who is being applauded by conspiracy theorists, so it’s probably a good thing

J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

My observations of the BBC is that they use an overwhelming amount of their resources and time reporting misinformation about ‘covid’.

Anyone daft enough to still have a licence should check the 6pm ‘news’ this evening.

I guarantee without doubt they will use 20-25mins spewing out unverified misleading stats and the last few minutes on some non-covid story (that will attempt to include covid in there anyway).

The BBC is a disgusting propagandist organisation deeply entrenched in the crime syndicate running this shit show.

RedhotScot
RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

The unbiased BBC, that appointed a DG who said he would address the systemic bias inherent in the BBC, but has neglected to interview Dr. Malone, the inventor of mRNA technology, and Dr. McCulloch, the most published cardiologist in the world over their claims that children should not be vaccinated.

Good job so far then.

twinkytwonk
twinkytwonk
4 years ago

Perhaps they could release the all cause mortality data including ages ( grouped in 10year max segments) and vaccination status Inc type and month vaccination received? Or do we get the normal ,” we don’t have that data”.

Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
4 years ago

Speaking of disinformation, I came across this from a comments section on Substack the other day. The poster makes an excellent point, and it is worth remembering, paraphrasing or even quoting the poster, giving due credit, of course:

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twinkytwonk
twinkytwonk
4 years ago

To be honest I’m not sure where the serious disease claim came from as the trials only tested for ” having covid symptoms and having a positive PCR test”.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

Propaganda now openly praised and celebrated. Wow, what shites.

They’ll only know what truth is when someone smacks them in the face. Very hard. Repeatedly. Till the mask slips.

Disinformation, my arse. You are lobotomised cowards.

Star
Star
4 years ago

Not sure whether it has been mentioned here yet, but yesterday (5 January) the Italian government under banker Mario Draghi made “vaccination” compulsory for those in the workforce aged 50+. Never mind any democratic niceties. The measure is effective immediately.

“Italy makes Covid vaccinations compulsory for over-50s“.

I wonder whether the authorities will post “vaccination” orders to land on resisters’ doormats? People could have a damned good time burning them in the street. Let’s have a party!

Meanwhile in Austria, “vaccination” is set to become compulsory next month for those aged 14+.

It’s going to be a “hot winter”. Many will resist with physical force – pretty much the only type of struggle that’s on offer if the alternatives are submission to spiking or starvation.

Long live the resistance in Italy, Austria, and all countries.

If I might make a plea – please don’t confuse everyone in the population in any country with the government. Even if a majority support the state’s action, that leaves a minority who don’t. The refusers in all countries are our brothers and sisters.

Edit: the Independent say the Italian measure is effective immediately; the Telegraph say it will be effective from next month. If… Read more »

Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
4 years ago

‘Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has said that the Government’s disinformation unit is “working”…’

Oh, we know. The disinformation put out by the ‘unit’ has been utterly relentless. This occupying regime has been nothing but efficient when it comes to disinformation and propaganda.

doobedoobedo
doobedoobedo
4 years ago

Brought to you by the Ministry of Truth

Star
Star
4 years ago

“Online providers”, haha. Is that what we are supposed to call the global advertising and surveillance companies?

Facebook was set up by the CIA, using money put through “In-Q-Tel”. (See its role in what they named the ever so cuddly “Arab Spring” – the CIA and US military cowboys thought they were so clever.)

Twitter works with the CIA and also the 77th Brigade.

And if you haven’t worked out whose tool Google is yet…

amanuensis
amanuensis
4 years ago

It would be nice if they could provide a timeline for each type of misinformation that they’re countering. For example.

For clot related issues it could be:

  • Jan — the vaccines are safe and effective
  • March — there is no indication of any clot related issues with the vaccines, any suggestion that there is such a risk is misinformation
  • April — clot related issues are a very very rare side effect
  • May — clot related issues are only Astra Zeneca, so that’s why we won’t use it in youngsters
  • July — don’t mention that we’ve stopped using Astra Zeneca for anyone
  • September — don’t mention clot related issues at all

For vaccine effectiveness it could be:

  • Jan — the vaccines are safe and 99% effective
  • March — the vaccines are safe and effective
  • April — the vaccines are quite effective
  • June — the vaccines are effective at stopping hospitalisations. We meant this all along when we said ‘effective’; everyone knows that they won’t stop infections.
  • August — don’t mention effectiveness
  • October — get a booster of the safe and effective vaccine
Star
Star
4 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Extremely successful work by Pfizer: muscle in with your pals, then kill your pals.
Lucky Luciano would have been impressed.

PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

That concurs with my diary entries

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Many here could fill up this page with “disinformation” or “false information” that has been promulgated by authorities and experts.

But if an authority says it, it’s true. If you challenge one of these authorities or agencies, you are guilty of trafficking in “disinformation” …. and, as you are causing “potential harm,” you can and will be punished.

PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago

Just going to post this again, as it seems more appropriate than the Ministry of Truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXHHkvPPN9I&t=3s

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Great work PP. Here are my services to public information: https://youtu.be/2oPEnISgg3c

PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Brilliant..loved the soundtrack!

crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

It’s amazing what you can do with compression. I listen to it and it doesn’t sound like me!

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

The sad thing is how close to the real thing your brilliant parody of it is – I loved the bit about uploading you name age and A level results!

crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Ha thanks! Satire has got to be the way forward. There’s an enormous gap in the market the legacy media will never be able to fill!

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Great work on the “trailer.” Here’s the comment I left on the You Tube page:

My favorite movie is “Casablanca.” The whole premise of that storyline surrounds the importance of getting “letters of transit.” Well, that has come to pass hasn’t it? Do you remember the line from the pretty girl from Romania or Bulgaria that wants her and her husband to get out of Casablanca and get to America? Her husband is trying to earn money to buy his “letters of transit” by playing roulette at Rick’s Cafe. Rick lets him win. I remember what that comely character told Rick. Paraphrasing: “It is very bad, sir. The devil has the people by the throat.” I never thought that Casablanca would be so prescient.

Nymeria
Nymeria
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Excellent, PoshPanic 🙂

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago

it is not working as I gapped these from the Interweb

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

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Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

Seat belts also happen to “work.” They largely do what they are supposed to do – unlike “vaccines” that do NOT do what they are supposed to do (prevent infection or spread).

In retrospect, society messed up when we allowed seat belt use to be mandated by law. This established a precedent for all the other “mandates” that could be couched in terms of saving lives or preventing injuries.

I maintain that most people would have started wearing seat belts on their own, voluntarily. Said differently, if you abolished all those laws requiring you to wear a seat belt, almost everyone would continue to wear them.

8bit
8bit
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

society messed up when we allowed seat belt use to be mandated by law.

Disagree. Seat belts are demonstrably effective, they have massively reduced injury & death, and I for one, have no problem with the mandatory law – because I’d wear one even if it were illegal. The law got this one right. Ditto, indoor smoking bans.

Seat belts also happen to “work” because (unlike some products…) they are tested thoroughly. And if they fail in use, the manufacturer withdraws every one, replaces them with redesigned ones at their expense, and then gets its hide sued off by the victims.

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  8bit

Seat belts make sense. But the libertarian in me says the government should not be able to comply someone to wear them … or give them tickets if they aren’t wearing them. And I do think most people would be wearing them if they were not mandated by law. Seatbelt usage was already going up when they became mandated.

I wish I had a dime for every time I got into some COVID debate and criticized mandates and had the “seatbelt” argument thrown at me.

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

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steve_z
steve_z
4 years ago

a far milder variant + vaccines = worse situation than last year

unless cases aren’t relevant?

steve_z
steve_z
4 years ago

voluntarily having a couple of jabs (rushed out) is one thing

having them every 10 weeks for life or you lose citizenship rights is quite another

as my friend said last night “I’m bored of the masks and bored of being injected with some muck that doesn’t seem to work every few months” (he’s in covi-fanatic spain)

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Rogerborg
Rogerborg
4 years ago

MiniTruth is going to have it so much easier when they can just directly deduct social credits for wrongthink.

I will wager you 100 credits that the Online Safety (nee Harms) Bill will mandate tying real IDs to all social media accounts.

Say… can you think of any recently developed, widely distributed application that already identifies both you, and your compliance with government diktats?

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago

Re: Orwell

I recently wrote a column on how Orwell has been proven right. In the piece, I provided a glossary of some of the words whose definitions or meanings have been changed in our “New Normal.”

The American Thinker ultimately published this piece (and the Daily Skeptic included a link in its Daily Round-Up). But before this, I simply posted the column on my Facebook page and on the pages of two Facebook Groups who are fighting lockdowns at U.S. Colleges.

Yesterday, I got a message from Facebook that these posts had been removed for “violating community standards.”

So a column documenting some of our New Normal’s Orwellian trends was … of course censored and removed by agents of Big Brother.

Apparently, per the Facebook standards I violated, my writing could have “harmed” others. (Presciently enough, “harm” was one of the words in my glossary).

For those interested in my “objectionable” and/or “unauthorized” content, here’s the version that survives at The American Thinker.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/orwell_was_right_control_the_language_control_the_world.html?fbclid=IwAR2lrIhOn2z-GmQaz-A2lfAutWu-P1aSIKHfwm1BaxRulO5CZJLKvqeV12g#.Yb4Pkw4TAfk.facebook

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

BTW, In reading through all the links on Facebook about it “Community Standards,” I learned that this social media employee “More than 15,000” “reviewers” to censor “potentially harmful” or “objectionable” content. These “reviewers” are “protecting” the community.

They are all independent contractors who go through at least 80 hours of training – which is supervised and created by another small army of consultants and managers.

Actually, “artificial intelligence” flags most objectionable posts – before the “reviewers” even have to take a look.

Orwell was so right it’s scary.

CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

The most concerning thing is that those who censored your Facebook posts probbaly won’t even realise the irony that they are demonstrating the very issues which you have written about!

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Very good Bill!

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

How many staff does this unit have?

What is it’s budget?

If in the future members of this unit are found to have suppressed the truth resulting in the deaths of others then they will face long prison sentences

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

I spent four hours yesterday reading through all the Facebook links about their “Community Standards” and how Facebook “enforces” these standards and “protects” its users from “potentially harmful content.”

This was a chilling four hours. My take-away is that there is an ARMY of “reviewers” (a euphemism for “censors”) that this company employs. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are also large battalions of supervisors, trainers and consultants. On top of this, these links are replete to references about Facebook’s “partners” and “vendors” who are also terrified of the “harm” that can be done to their “communities” and they also employ battalions of “wellness” consultants and “reviewers.”

See this story: The biggest of these “partners” are GOVERNMENTS.

These people and organizations are now EVERYWHERE and they will not stop until only their “authorized” pronouncements reach the public.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

They each have a get out clause

The dictatorship ‘Not us guv the MHRA said they were safe’

MHRA ‘Not us guv we just passed on the Big Pharma message that they were safe’

Big Pharma ‘ We have your money so fucking sue us. Oooopps!!! no you can’t because you granted us indemnity’

The Rule of Pricks
The Rule of Pricks
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

The government granted immunity to Big Pharma but if you were coerced/mandated/obliged to have the vaccine and it went horribly wrong you wouldnt be suing Big Pharma, you would be suing whoever forced you to have it.

For example the obligatory vaccines on health care workers…….they wouldnt sue the manufacturers they would sue the NHS.

I cant wait for those lawsuits to start…….

Maybe a few punchy Wall Street types will be the first over in NY? Im sure they can afford it……

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago

Big Tobacco lawyers have plenty of experience in dealing with this sort of thing.

Them: Prove the damage was caused by the vaccine. We know they are totally safe.

The ultimate Big Corporate response is to just drag the cases out long enough for the plaintiffs to kick the bucket. It worked well for workers exposed to asbestos in the past (‘well’ for the corporates that is).

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