By Mark Curtis: The UK government-financed Integrity
Initiative, managed by the Institute for Statecraft, is ostensibly a
“counter disinformation” programme to challenge Russian information
operations. However, it has been revealed that the Integrity Initiative
twitter handle and some individuals associated with this programme have
also been tweeting messages attacking Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. [i]
This takes on special meaning in light of the numerous UK military and
intelligence personnel associated with the programme, documented in an
important briefing by academics in Working Group on Syria Propaganda and
Media. [ii]
Several journalists have been named as associated with the Integrity
Initiative, either in programme “clusters” or having been invited to an
Integrity Initiative event, in the documents that have been posted
online. [iii]
Analysis of 11 of these individuals has been undertaken to assess to
what extent their tweets have linked Corbyn unfairly (for a definition
see below) to Russia.
