UK Intel Agencies Declare Cyber War on Independent Media

In just the past week, the national-security states of the United States and United Kingdom have discreetly let it be known that the cyber tools and online tactics previously designed for use in the post-9/11 "War on terror" are now being repurposed for use against information sources promoting "Vaccine hesitancy" and information related to Covid-19 that runs counter to their state narratives.

Essentially, the power of the state is being wielded like never before to police online speech and to deplatform news websites to protect the interests of powerful corporations like Pfizer and other scandal-ridden pharmaceutical giants as well as the interests of the US and UK national-security states, which themselves are intimately involved in the Covid-19 vaccination endeavor.

On Monday, the UK newspaper The Times reported that the UK's GCHQ "Has begun an offensive cyber-operation to disrupt anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by hostile states" and "Is using a toolkit developed to tackle disinformation and recruitment material peddled by Islamic State" to do so.

Such concerns are only amplified when one of the main government sources for The Times article bluntly stated that "GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers [sic] online and on social media. There are ways they have used to monitor and disrupt terrorist propaganda," which suggests that the targets of GCHQ's new cyber war will be determined by the content itself rather than their suspected "Foreign" origin.

Ahmed told the UK newspaper The Independent in July that "I would go beyond calling anti-vaxxers conspiracy theorists to say they are an extremist group that pose a national security risk." He then stated that "Once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it's easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism," thereby implying that "Anti-vaxxers" might engage in acts of violent extremism.

Given that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making Covid-19 vaccines donate heavily to politiciansin both countries and have been involved in numerous safety scandals, using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is not only troubling for the future of journalism but it suggests that the UK is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state.

The rapid increase in interest by the US and UK national-security states toward Covid-19 "Disinformation," particularly as it relates to upcoming Covid-19 vaccination campaigns, is intimately related to the media-engagement strategy of the US government's Operation Warp Speed.

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