Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.
by Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal
Part 3 - Khan and Mason plan pro-Ukraine propaganda shop backed by NATO states “through cutouts”
Mason and Khan’s brazen attempt to de-platform and financially cripple an independent media outlet on the slanderous, fictional pretext it is actually a hostile foreign information operation is especially perverse given that other leaked emails in The Grayzone’s possession reveal that Mason participated in a plan to construct a hostile foreign information operation of his own.
The project appears to have been the brainchild of Andy Pryce, the head of the Counter Disinformation and Media Development unit at the UK Foreign Office, who helped guide the British government’s propaganda strategy around the Skripal poisoning affair in 2018.
The project appears to have been the brainchild of Andy Pryce, the head of the Counter Disinformation and Media Development unit at the UK Foreign Office, who helped guide the British government’s propaganda strategy around the Skripal poisoning affair in 2018.
Dubbed an “International Information Brigade” in an email apparently composed by Pryce, the outfit was pitched as an astroturfed civil society organization that would serve as “the major, forward leaning player in the information war.” While publicly operating as an NGO, the Brigade would be funded by Western states “through cutouts,” and closely intertwined with intelligence services.
Mason responded that Pryce’s plan for a state-backed propaganda operation presented as a grassroots civil society initiative was a “good idea,” and proposed “immediate translation of Kyiv independent stuff,” noting that “the European Young Socialists are doing this already and have raised funds.”
The Young European Socialists is a social democrat-oriented youth organization sponsored by the European Union. And the Kyiv Independent is a key propaganda organ of the Ukrainian government which has received financial support from the Canadian government and European Union.
The Young European Socialists is a social democrat-oriented youth organization sponsored by the European Union. And the Kyiv Independent is a key propaganda organ of the Ukrainian government which has received financial support from the Canadian government and European Union.
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