The U.K. Government is set to spend £600,000 ($755,000) on social media surveillance to identify “harmful disinformation and misinformation narratives”. Reclaim the Nethas the story.
This is revealed in a notice posted on the Government’s Contracts Finder site that contains information about contracts whose value exceeds the equivalent of $15,000. It shows the authorities are looking for a “misinformation and disinformation monitoring and analysis service”.
This current call for tender is the work of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and was published on April 23rd, closing a month later. …
The announcement states that the place of performance of the contract will be the U.K., while the duration will be nine months, with the possibility of renewal.
The DCMS’s future partner in monitoring and analysing social media content will have to focus on U.K. audiences, according to the tendering terms, adding that this “clear” focus should be present where that distinction is possible to make.
The goal is described in fairly vague terms as identifying “harmful disinformation and misinformation narratives, Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) or systematic manipulation of the information environment”.
What the DCMS intends to do with the reports from its future surveillance contractor is anybody’s guess at this point.
Given its abysmal performance during the pandemic, quite why the Government thinks it is in any position to authoritatively distinguish fact from fiction is unclear. The point that the risk of some people getting stuff wrong is worth taking to safeguard freedom of expression and inquiry – and thus the quest for truth – seems completely lost on them.
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Well, we know that “disinformation” and “misinformation” means anything that is not State propaganda. But “Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB)” is a new one, and seems to mean “living your life according to a coherent worldview not promulgated by the State.”
We know this is so because, if interpreted more literally, the entire apparatus of government would be indicted.
CIB = Behavior and beliefs based on Truth and Reality.
Anyone quoting from the world of the 5 senses or asking for proof is a criminal, an -ist, -phobe and mentally ill (unless you are a penis-woman, than you are instantly a genius, all hail).
Big X
2 years ago
“Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour” has to be one of the most sinister things I’ve heard from the government recently.
Try defining inauthentic behaviour, because by their definition I reckon everyone on this site is pretty “inauthentically” behaved.
Also, £600,000 that we know about – the reality is that there is far more than this flowing through less official channels.
One of the biggest pieces of mass information ever has been on the issue of Energy and Climate, and that has come from Government itself. Infact it has come from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (A Political Body, not a Scientific one). Virtually everything that emanates from government on this issue is either a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency for which no evidence exists or is blatant lies.——– Government are in no position to lecture anyone on providing “misinformation”, when they are infact the biggest culprits.
Last edited 2 years ago by varmint
marebobowl
2 years ago
The government got almost everything wrong during the plandemic. the first mistake was to call it a pandemic. Vaxxing children, babies and pregnant women, killing the elderly by refusing early treatments placing them on ventilators and injecting them with midazolam, shutting schools, businesses and paying people to stay home, ruining the enconomy, so many people now suffering long term adverse events post vaxx, many died. These are the same people who want to control misinformation. Where on earth are the lawyers in this country, the Del Bigtree’s of this country, the Robert Kennedy Jrs of this country. Britain is doomed if this government refuses to apologise for ALL the errors they made over the past three years.
jimshall
2 years ago
Coordinated inauthentic behaviour…. Like governments, big corporations and media do to keep us in hoc to their schemes… How weird and creepy…
SomersetHoops
2 years ago
The biggest problem with this is that the biggest source of misinformation about major issues such as Covid and climate is our government. This government project is designed to shut up people who don’t agree with their lies. Its object is a disgraceful restriction of free speech
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Well, we know that “disinformation” and “misinformation” means anything that is not State propaganda. But “Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB)” is a new one, and seems to mean “living your life according to a coherent worldview not promulgated by the State.”
We know this is so because, if interpreted more literally, the entire apparatus of government would be indicted.
WTF is CIB?
CIB = Behavior and beliefs based on Truth and Reality.
Anyone quoting from the world of the 5 senses or asking for proof is a criminal, an -ist, -phobe and mentally ill (unless you are a penis-woman, than you are instantly a genius, all hail).
“Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour” has to be one of the most sinister things I’ve heard from the government recently.
Try defining inauthentic behaviour, because by their definition I reckon everyone on this site is pretty “inauthentically” behaved.
Also, £600,000 that we know about – the reality is that there is far more than this flowing through less official channels.
Damned right.
Looks like it’s curtains for the BBC and ITN.
And the Guardian
No Grauniad? What a shame
And then send the UK’s very own version of the Keystone Cops to police it. Are you having that lads?
One of the biggest pieces of mass information ever has been on the issue of Energy and Climate, and that has come from Government itself. Infact it has come from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (A Political Body, not a Scientific one). Virtually everything that emanates from government on this issue is either a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency for which no evidence exists or is blatant lies.——– Government are in no position to lecture anyone on providing “misinformation”, when they are infact the biggest culprits.
The government got almost everything wrong during the plandemic. the first mistake was to call it a pandemic. Vaxxing children, babies and pregnant women, killing the elderly by refusing early treatments placing them on ventilators and injecting them with midazolam, shutting schools, businesses and paying people to stay home, ruining the enconomy, so many people now suffering long term adverse events post vaxx, many died. These are the same people who want to control misinformation. Where on earth are the lawyers in this country, the Del Bigtree’s of this country, the Robert Kennedy Jrs of this country. Britain is doomed if this government refuses to apologise for ALL the errors they made over the past three years.
Coordinated inauthentic behaviour…. Like governments, big corporations and media do to keep us in hoc to their schemes… How weird and creepy…
The biggest problem with this is that the biggest source of misinformation about major issues such as Covid and climate is our government. This government project is designed to shut up people who don’t agree with their lies. Its object is a disgraceful restriction of free speech