Defamation Impossible: Hackers Leak More Details on UK’s Info War in Europe
SputnikNews.com
03.12.2018
International hacker group Anonymous went ahead with its efforts to counter what it calls Britain’s interference with the domestic affairs of sovereign states. In a second dump of secret documents within two weeks, the hacktivists disclose more details on the ongoing UK-funded, anti-Russia information campaign spreading across Europe.
The second batch of documents leaked by Anonymous unravels more information on the activities of the Integrity Initiative (II), a UK-based NGO ostensibly founded to counter disinformation and defend democratic processes from malign influence. According to the first documents leaked by the hacktivist organization last month, the project was in fact a “large-scale information secret service” sponsored and created by London to tackle ‘Russian propaganda.’
However, the latest leak suggests that “the British government goes far beyond and exploits the Integrity Initiative to solve its domestic problems inside the United Kingdom by defaming the opposition.”
Discrediting UK Opposition
Anonymous refers to a “scorching” article that surfaced in The Times on November 25 and was dedicated to Seumas Milne, director of strategy and communications under UKIP leader Jeremy Corbyn. The Times’ official Twitter account promoted the piece three times within 24 hours on social media — the only case for all of its articles, Anonymous says. The hacktivists add that the Integrity Initiative retweeted the “defamatory” article right after its publication (the post is now unavailable, but Anonymous provided a screengrab of the retweet).
The group announced in November that the II constituted a network of clusters across Europe, which sought to tamper with domestic affairs of several European countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Norway, Serbia, Spain, and Montenegro.
The Rest…HERE
