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Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal | The Grayzone
thegrayzone.comNew leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting regime change inside Russia and undermining its government across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a series of leaked documents. The leaked materials show the Thomson Reuters […]
I think his relative rise to prominence over the summer and his pretty sus foreign policy takes while being attached to a NATO propaganda factory whilst lots of less critical leftists and radlibs online fall head over heels for him is a mixture that's guaranteed to get backlash from this community and rightly so.
I do think it's become a bit of a one upmanship meme almost randomly dropped in to some posts though.
:geordi-no: Dodgy regime change fueled foreign policy articles.
:geordi-yes: Domestic work exposing white supremacist organisations.
:cat-com: Com-cats over Bellingcats.
If you paid attention to the wars in East Ukraine or Syria - he's been plenty prominent for years. Many people would anonymously contribute opensource info they found on the conflicts (especially geolocation). Then a few decided they'd make a career out of it. And still fewer got state funding or media recognition - and you know what it takes to get that.
Agreed, I meant more the causal Twitter gathering around him mostly from his podcasts and Twitter coverage of the protests and counter-violence from the right.