Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle,
The British media has been consumed the last week over a scandal involving political operatives working for the British Labour Party who hired a PR firm to investigate seven reporters—one of whom is me.One close advisor to Prime Minister Starmer has resigned, and the British government has launched an investigation to uncover these attacks against the media.
A British Labour Party official denied during a phone call that I was a focus of their attention when I called for an explanation a couple days ago. I’m releasing one of the documents leaked to me from a London reporter that shows I was one of the British Labour Party’s targets.
The document is marked “STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.”
I became a Labour Party “significant person of interest” after I began reporting on the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), in 2023. The CCDH was created by a British think tank called Labour Together, which was run by Josh Simons in 2023. Simons hired the PR firm APCO to spy on myself and other reporters.
Simons is now a Member of Parliament and posted on X “APCO were asked to look into a suspected illegal hack.” However,the Simon’s memo discusses nothing about a hack.
Simons did not return repeated requests for comment that I sent to both his government and private email.
According to emails leaked to me, APCO’s work for Labour Together was overseen by Tom Harper, a former reporter for the British Sunday Times. Tom Harper did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
I became interested in CCDH because American legacy media such as The New York Times and Washington Post were quoting CCDH as purported experts on everything from vaccines, to online hate, misinformation and disinformation, both antisemitismandIslamaphobia, climate denial …. pretty much everything and anything.
But despite living for a decade in DC, I had never heard of CCDH nor their CEO Imran Ahmed.
Source: ZeroHedge News
