Reuters colluded with British intelligence to disseminate propaganda to target geopolitical competitors

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 by: Ethan Huff

The mainstream media is engaged in a covert information warfare campaign that aims to “weaken Russia” and promote regime change there.

Leaked documents show that the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) paid the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action to have their Russian journalists produce negative content about Russia and positive content about Great Britain.

Operating through a shadowy department within the FCO called the Counter Disinformation & Media Development (CDMD), these media organizations along with a cohort of intelligence contractors embedded within a secret organization known as “the Consortium” sought to produce an “attitudinal change in the participants” in order to promote a “positive impact” on their “perception of the UK.”

“These revelations show that when MPs were railing about Russia, British agents were using the BBC and Reuters to deploy precisely the same tactics that politicians and media commentators were accusing Russia of using,” says Chris Williamson, a former U.K. Labour MP who tried to apply public scrutiny to the CDMD’s covert activities but was stonewalled based on the excuse that doing so was a national security risk.

“The BBC and Reuters portray themselves as an unimpeachable, impartial, and authoritative source of world news, but both are now hugely compromised by these disclosures. Double standards like this just bring establishment politicians and corporate media hacks into further disrepute.”

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