Anti-racism campaigner Lowri Davies shared the recording with the Guardian to raise awareness of what she alleges were “distressing” techniques used to try to manipulate her into providing information to the police.
She said two police officers spent 90 minutes seeking to convince her to become an informant, imploring her not to tell anyone about the attempted recruitment.
But Davies exposed the attempt by recording a phone call from one of the covert officers. It is the first public evidence that the police have sought to recruit a mole within the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK.
The disclosures are likely to heighten longstanding criticism that police in the UK are carrying out unjustified surveillance of political groups that are engaged in democratic and lawful protests.
A judge-led public inquiry is examining the activities of undercover police officers who spied on more than 1,000 political groups over more than four decades. The government was forced to set up the inquiry after a series of revelations about the misconduct of the undercover officers. These included themonitoring of black justice groups, including several run by grieving families whose relatives were killed by police.
As well as deploying undercover officers, police have for years run a secret network of informants within protest groups. Rarely heard about, they are members of political groups who are persuaded by police to covertly supply them with information about protests, often for cash.
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A new report from the Center For Countering Digital Hate
analyzed nearly 7,000 top-performing climate denial Facebook posts from
the last year, and found that 69% of them came from the same 10 pages:
Breitbart
Western Journal
Newsmax
Townhall Media (which, the report notes, was founded by the Exxon-funded Heritage Foundation)
Media Research Center (another Exxon-backed “think tank”)
The Washington Times
The Federalist Papers
Daily Wire
RT.com and Sputnik News
Patriot Post
Here are some takeaway from this report about the “Toxic Ten”:
The Toxic Ten have 186 million
followers on mainstream social media platforms. The Toxic Ten account
for 69% of interactions on climate denial Facebook posts
CCDH
analyzed 6,983 climate denial articles from the last year featured in
Facebook posts with 709,057 interactions in total using the social
analytics tool NewsWhip.
This analysis shows that posts containing
articles from just ten websites account for 69.69% of Facebook users’
interactions with the climate denial content in our study.
Despite
promising to start attaching information labels to posts about climate
change, 92% of posts containing content from the Toxic Ten carried no
labels. 99.05% of user interactions with posts containing Toxic Ten
content were with posts that carried no information or fact-checking
labels.
The Toxic Ten’s websites have received nearly 1.1 billion
visits in the last six months alone, earning those that are part of
Google’s AdSense platform an estimated $3.6m. This money is given to
Google by brands such as Chevrolet, Capital One and the delivery company
DHL International, whose Google AdSense ads have run on Toxic Ten
sites.
In October 2021, Google announced that it would start prohibiting climate denial ads and demonetize climate denial on YouTube. Facebook Meta has yet to make, let alone deliver, any similar promises.
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