Donald Trump’s campaign has submitted an official complaint accusing Labour of breaking US electoral law over the secondment of volunteers, just days after Nigel Farage accused Labour of ‘election interference’ after party advisers headed stateside to canvass for Kamala Harris. Now leaked documents thought to have originated from a Labour-linked group suggest the lefty lot may also be looking to attack Elon Musk’s Twitter as part of their pro-Kamala efforts. Good heavens…
Leaked documents thought to be drawn up by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate – founded by Sir Keir Starmer’s now-chief of staff Morgan McSweeney – have been posted on Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi’s Disinformation Chronicle substack. The files reportedly list ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ as one of the group’s annual priorities, with the sentiment appearing in multiple documents dating back to the early months of 2024. As Freddy Gray noted today, these days ‘countering digital hate’ tends to mean shutting down speech on platforms that don’t already censor right-wing political views. Another
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