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Donald Trump’s campaign has submitted an official complaint accusing Britain’s governing Labour Party of breaking US electoral law over the secondment of volunteers, just days after Nigel Farage accused Labour of “election interference” over its party advisors headed stateside to canvas 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 Center 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, these days “countering digital hate” tends to mean shutting down speech on platforms that don’t already censor right-wing political views. Another of its top priorities is to “trigger EU and UK regulatory action,” while the documents also purportedly show that the group has sought to strengthen ties with senior Democrats, like Senator Amy Klobuchar, in a bid to further its “US policy engagement.” How very interesting.
CCDH’s strong ties with Labour come from the organization being founded by the Labour leader’s campaign guru — who also founded influential think tank Labour Together. In fact, Thacker’s Disinformation Chronicle dubs CCDH as the “messaging vehicle” for Labour Together — which has close ties to Starmer’s army not least as many of its former staffers are now MPs. More recently, it emerged that Labour Together has been focusing attention on the US after senior figures in the organization, including former Labour Member of Parliament Jonathan Ashworth, were reported to be sharing campaign tips with Kamala Harris. The Labour-Democrat links are becoming quite curious….
For its part, CCDH has said:
The Center for Countering Digital Hate works to stop the spread of online hate and disinformation through innovative research and policy advocacy. We are not supported, advised, or financed by any political party or organisation. Our mission is to protect human rights and civil liberties online and we will continue to fight for changes to outdated legislation that continues to allow social media platforms to run rampant with dangerous disinformation that causes harm to children and people around the world. The Center for Countering Digital Hate researches conspiracy theories, we do not engage with them.
As a not-for-profit organization, CCDH benefits from special tax exemptions — which it could lose if it is found that a “substantial part of its activities is attempting to influence legislation.” If the leaked files are authentic, it would appear the Labour-linked policy unit has some rather important questions to answer…
This article was originally published on The Spectator’s UK website.
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