The offending unit of the British Army is the 77th Brigade’s Counter Disinformation Unit, which specializes in psychological and information warfare.
According to the statement of a whistleblower who spoke with the Daily Mail, this unit compiled dossiers on prominent public figures who voiced their dissenting views on COVID-19 policies. Their dissenting views were then reported back to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.
The information gathered during the illegal espionage operation was then used to craft the British government’s responses to criticisms of different COVID-19 policies, including lockdown orders, and police being given the power to break up gatherings and issue fines for violating COVID-19 policies.
“I entered this role believing I would be uncovering foreign information warfare,” said the whistleblower. “Instead, I found the banner of disinformation was a guise under which the British military was being deployed to monitor and flag our own concerned citizens.”
The whistleblower further noted that there may have been actual social media campaigns from foreign governments like China to promote support for COVID-19 lockdown policies in places like the United Kingdom, but because most of the 77th Brigade’s efforts were focused on monitoring sentiment toward the success of the lockdown, the unit probably missed its chance to detect it....<<<Read More>>>...