“New Knowledge” and the same old same old -Kit on the US Integrity Initiative Archived Message Posted by MikeD on February 4, 2019, 10:21 am “New Knowledge” and the same old same old Kit Knightly https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/04/new-knowledge-and-the-same-old-same-old/?fbclid=IwAR1XkQX6Dxn9YTk6WUB3MSY5WR_6EQBquE3_txBsfw2M93omiDZLjdSUCig ...Less well-known in this country is New Knowledge, a direct US-based parallel of the Integrity Initiative. They’ve been conducting “counter-propaganda” and “social media experiments” in the US since 2015, but only just hit the headlines. ...New Knowledge pretended to be Russians supporting a Republican candidate in order to discredit him by association. They freely admit it: We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” So it seems rather than “combatting disinformation”, New Knowledge actively spreads disinformation to achieve political goals. Just like the Integrity Initiative coverage in the UK, the wider implications of corruption were completely ignored. The story was always framed in terms of “fighting back against the Kremlin”, or “turning Putin’s methods against him”. The coverage focused on this being a “gift for the Kremlin” because it appeared to undermine the claims of Russiagaters (Note “appears to undermine”, rather than “undermines”). New Knowledge (NK), of course, denied they were attempting to corrupt democracy in Alabama. Morgan called the Alabama operation an “experiment” testing the effectiveness of “Russian methods”. He claimed it was specifically “designed to have as little impact as possible”. (How you can “test the effectiveness” of something designed to have no impact is unclear to me). No evidence is supplied to corroborate Morgan’s version of events. In fact, there’s no reason to think this is a one-off at all. This is just the one we know about. Deep State psy-ops are like ants, for every one you see…there’s a hundred you don’t. A single sighting means there’s a whole colony nearby. All of the national media and pundits resolutely ignored the very large elephant in the very small room – NK have existed since 2015. Before the 2016 Presidential election. The NYT warns these tactics could make the 2020 election ugly – but they don’t relate it back to the 2016 election at all. This is not about Russia “corrupting our practices” or us “employing Russian methods”, this is evidence that there NEVER WAS any “Russian interference”, that “Russia’s methods” are actually our methods. Evidence that “Russiagate” is a Deep State psy-op designed to discredit and control Donald Trump’s administration. Rather predictably, none of the media articles takes this angle.... Message Thread: “New Knowledge” and the same old same old -Kit on the US Integrity Initiative - MikeD February 4, 2019, 10:21 am Strange how this story has been passed over.. - David Macilwain February 4, 2019, 12:08 pm Re: Strange how this story has been passed over.. - dovetailjoint February 4, 2019, 2:18 pm Re: Strange how this story has been passed over.. - Gerard February 5, 2019, 3:14 pm   Searching