Another moral panic report is out from one of Parliament’s committees – this time on the threat of foreign disinformation. What about the threat of disinformation from Keir Starmer?
Anyway, the document, from the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, cites evidence it received that “Elon Musk’s influence is potentially greater in the UK than that of Russia’s”. It makes that claim alongside similar allegations about hostile states…
The report proposes a ‘National Counter Disinformation Centre’, which would presumably be another expensive quango to police social media and filter information in the interests of Labour ministers. Is that the shredder you can hear?
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”