Introducing some paid content
Usual content will remain free
I set up this substack in order to inform the public by filling a space in the media landscape that only a few outlets like the Byline Times inhabit. Disinformation has become the main campaigning tactic of the radical right, and not enough of the public understand what the radical right is. It’s broader than just the far-right, although there far-right is an element of the broader coalition of the radical right which includes Christian Nationalists, white supremacists and eugenicists, industrialists, venture capitalists and tech bro oligarchs.
Even though all my content has been free, a few generous individuals have taken out paid subscriptions and I feel like it’s about time I paid them back by offering something just for them.
To start with for paid subscribers I will start making availible the network maps i’ve been using recently. You can move points around to provide different perspectives of the map and highlight individual nodes, you will also be able to see the data sheets I used which contain hundreds more links and nodes than I can fit on a single map.
I will also release as yet unpublished longer form reports on disinformation networks and I have a lengthy special report on the Covid Schools Scandal which will meticulously go through just about every change in policy by the UK government over 2020-2022 and the evidence base relied on. At over 130 pages it's more like a short book and is effectively the rough draft of one strand of the book I am slowly putting together. I will make this and similar longer reports availible to paid subscriber as PDF's to download.
In the future I will also seek to share chapters and research documents i’m working on for the book with paid subscribers.
For my normal content I have a lot more network mapping in the pipeline, recent articles of this type seem to have been particularly popular with readers and it feels like this is a niche people would like to see filled. This is time consuming and so the more paid subscribers I have the more time I can justify spending on writing.
Another thought i’ve had is making a few merchandise items availible with the identifying disinformation graphic on. It’s not something i’d expect to make any money on, but if readers are interested let me know in the comments and I will look into feasibility as my audience is quite dispersed around the world.
Once again thank you to everyone who reads or supports the Counter Disinformation Project, it’s nice to know some people are interested in what I publish.
I say the radical right and the radical left both spread plenty of disinformation, but of a different type. The radical right is divided into two groups. One of them spreads racist and antisemitic content of Nick Fuentes, and hates black people and Jews. One of the worst of these whack jobs is Candice Owens, who thinks Charlie Kirk was killed by Jewish Zionist time travelers. The other far right group aligns with Ben Shapiro and Laura Loomer, who more or less thinks America should bend over backwards for Israel. I say they are both wrong.
The radical left's disinformation takes on the form of radical anti-colonialism, to the point of antisemitism, hating America, and racism against white people, in addition to thinking people, including doctors, should be censored for questioning whether transitioning works, or labeled as sex offenders just because they "misgender" someone.