Anonymous ID: 60552a Jan. 29, 2023, 8:54 a.m. No.18248488   🗄️.is 🔗kun

77 Brigade: Is British Military Waging an Information War on Its Own Population?

 

77th Brigade

 

Previously known as the ‘Security Assistance Group’, 77th Brigade was stood up in 2015 as part of ‘Army 2020’. The Security Assistance Group had been established following the amalgamation of the Media Operations Group, 15 Psychological Operations Group, Security Capacity Building Team, and the Military Stabilisation and Support Group.

 

‘Rapid Response Unit’

 

Carter mentioned working with the Cabinet Office’s ‘Rapid Response Unit’. Established in April 2018 and also known as the ‘fake news unit’, the Rapid Response Unit was given an initial six months’ funding. It brought together a “team of analysts, data scientists and media and digital experts,” armed with cutting-edge software, to “work round the clock to monitor online breaking news stories and social media discussion.”

 

The Corona-Narrative

 

General Carter said his 77th Brigade is “helping to quash rumours from misinformation, but also to counter disinformation.”

 

What misinformation and disinformation is 77th Brigade helping to quash? How much of the ‘disinformation’ originates from 77th Brigade in the first place?

 

Part of 77th Brigade’s role is:

 

‘Monitoring and evaluating the information environment within boundaries or operational area’

 

They not only ‘counter’ disinformation, but also watch social media, analysing how disinformation, including their own, spreads; mapping the internet and the networks of people sharing content between each other.

 

And for that, they have thousands deployed, and tens of thousands in reserve, not only in 77th Brigade directly, but right across government and the third sector.

 

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/04/29/77-brigade-is-british-military-waging-an-information-war-on-its-own-population/