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Karam Bales

@karambales.bsky.social
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Counter Disinformation Project, Former NEU and ATL union executive Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy Educator Counterdisinformationproject.substack.com

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW from me: A comprehensive list of key election denial activists in the right-wing ecosystem. These activists regularly appear in right-wing media to promote their work & boast of ties to Trump, urging him to get rid of voting machines, ban mail-in ballots, & declare a national emergency.
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Key election denial activists in the right-wing media ecosystem
It’s become increasingly apparent that election denial activists have the president’s ear. Figures seeking to undermine faith in election outcomes through direct action and advocacy efforts have boast...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The rise of disinformation fueled mobs Antivaxxers at the school gates were a sign of what was to come as disinformation online increasingly takes to the streets Are we entering an age of US style militias? counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
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The rise of disinformation fueled mobs
Antivaxxers at the school gates were a sign of what was to come as disinformation online increasingly takes to the streets
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — UN Acknowledges ‘Conflicts’ of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel’s Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders — @nafeez.bsky.social The supposedly independent panel has close ties to donors who financed the AI giants they have assessed, a Byline Times investigation has found
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UN Acknowledges ‘Conflicts’ of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel’s Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders
The supposedly independent panel has close ties to donors who financed the AI giants they have assessed, a Byline Times investigation has found
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — Samantha Asumadu The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK…
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Andy Jolley @andyjolley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Feel decidedly uncomfortable seeing all the consultancies popping up offering to help negotiate the upcoming changes to the School Food Standards I’m not even sure we have the final version yet DfE are failing badly if the changes are so complicated schools need to pay for an explanation
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK? Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/why-is-dis...
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Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK?
Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"One person from UKHSA then told me that even if clean air was cost effective it still might not be beneficial as preventing infections in children might shift infections to the vulnerable and elderly." 😱
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK? Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/why-is-dis...
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Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK?
Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Should a Headteacher really be appearing alongside a conspiracy theorist like Maajid Nawaz?
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Fédé🇫🇷🇧🇪🇱🇺🇨🇭 info prévention #Sectarisme @prevensectes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mais heureusement pour le Monde 6 anonymes décident de vérifier ses affirmations. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @sonicurticant.bsky.social @lonnibesancon.bsky.social Demain découvrez Professeur Raoult vs Le Gang des Cerises, le 11 septembre sur HBO Max. La Branque connection qui se Trump!
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"Professeur Raoult vs. le gang des cerises" sur HBO Max revient sur la controverse autour de l'hydroxychloroquine pendant la crise du covid
La série HBO fait une piqûre de rappel sur le Covid, le Professeur Raoult et la controverse scientifique.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The NYT “reported last month that Palantir is in discussions with numerous government agencies for use of its technology that analyzes data, including the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).” 6/17/25 … 1/ thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Democrats demand details from Palantir on federal contracts after Social Security, IRS report
A coalition of Democratic lawmakers are asking tech giant Palantir to turn over details of their contracts with the Trump administration amid reports the data company has been given lucra…
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
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Ulf Poshbart, Evidenzbüro @heringsburger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There is a protest planned against Peter Thiel and his Axel Springer Award ceremony next thursday in Berlin @karambales.bsky.social @mc00.bsky.social @purgepalantir.bsky.social @gilduran.com @jim-stewartson.bsky.social @lucyham.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's about more than just the £72 Million Examing Reform's record donations and the wider third party infrastructure supporting the radical right counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/its-about-...
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It's about more than just the £72 Million
Examing Reform’s record donations and the wider third party infrastructure supporting the radical right
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's about more than just the £72 Million Examing Reform's record donations and the wider third party infrastructure supporting the radical right counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/its-about-...
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It's about more than just the £72 Million
Examing Reform’s record donations and the wider third party infrastructure supporting the radical right
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
glad they're reporting on this finally but you could read this older article from @karambales.bsky.social and learn a lot more
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Prominent Anti-Vaxxer’s Snake Oil Store Has a Propaganda Outlet
The Daily Beast and The Daily Mail called McCullough’s company’s product line “MAGA Goop.”
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker — @nafeez.bsky.social Cottrell's partner is the sister of two men indicted over an alleged operation involving 5,670 kilograms of cocaine, who are tied to one of the most powerful organised crime…
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
Cottrell's partner is the sister of two men indicted over an alleged operation involving 5,670 kilograms of cocaine, who are tied to one of the most powerful organised crime groups in the Balkans
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ben Delo has just given Reform another £36million
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ben Delo has just given Reform another £36million
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Jason Arday’s Death Has Unmasked Trump’s Support for Anti-Black Racism — Karam Bales The reinstatement by Ghent University of Nathan Cofnas – a key figure in the Jason Arday affair – followed pressure from Trump’s State Department
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Jason Arday’s Death Has Unmasked Trump’s Support for Anti-Black Racism
The reinstatement by Ghent University of Nathan Cofnas – a key figure in the Jason Arday affair – followed pressure from Trump’s State Department
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My latest for BylineTimes
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🔴 NEW ‘Israel’s Shrill Attack on Ed Miliband Exposes Its Weakness’ By Alexandra Hall Hall Read below. ↓
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‘Israel’s Shrill Attack on Ed Miliband Exposes Its Weakness’
Alexandra Hall Hall, a former UK diplomat who worked on the Middle East Peace Process in the Foreign Office, argues that Israel's extreme response to the UK shows it is now losing the argument
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform UK Tells Its Activists ‘Don’t Drink and Tweet’ Because ‘The Biggest Threat to Reform Is the People in It’ — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social EXCLUSIVE: "If this was sat on the desk of an anti-Reform journalist, what are they going to do with it?…
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Reform UK Tells Its Activists ‘Don’t Drink and Tweet’ Because ‘The Biggest Threat to Reform Is the People in It’
EXCLUSIVE: "If this was sat on the desk of an anti-Reform journalist, what are they going to do with it?” the leaked internal training course warn its members
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Its an effort to bring in mobile rule, the guys a pillock
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There isn't going to be a Restore government, Lowe is effectively trying to make demands by mob rule
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pearson has backed nearly every thuggish display from antivaxxers at school gates to Southport rioters I think she gets a thrill out of the idea of a breakdown in social order
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is an effort to drag Farage's public positioning further to the right or risk losing a block of support to Lowe's Restore Moving the Overton window
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
He was #1 on this list.
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The dishonest doctors who were Fox News’ most frequent medical guests in 2021
Politico recently admonished Dr. Anthony Fauci for his choice not to appear on Fox News, saying it deprived Fox viewers of “the Biden administration’s most public-facing figure in the effort to contai...
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Telegraph's Knapton promotes Anti-vax letter Letter comes from Aseem Malhotra and collective of cranks, while Toby Young and GB News' Bev Turner engage in other anti-vaX disinformation counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/telegraphs...
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Telegraph's Knapton promotes Anti-vax letter
Letter comes from Aseem Malhotra and a collective of cranks, while Toby Young and GB News’ Bev Turner engage in other anti-vax disinformation
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yep
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The We Want Them Infected Movement Isn’t Just for COVID Anymore
Our medical establishment’s claim that they want to save “core vaccines” by attacking other vaccines is like an arsonist claiming he wants to save your house by removing smoke detectors because
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Its also worth noting that the Trump administrations threats against Belgium over Cofnas is exactly the same playbook Toby Young suggested they use against the UK counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/unelected-...
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Unelected peer Toby Young went to Washington to urge for trade deals to exert foreign influence
From campaigning for "Parliamentary Sovereignty" during Brexit to actively supporting foreign influence
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And the masked toddlers from 2020 & 2021 are now 7, 8, and 9. Tell me, did they ever learn how to speak? Or was this all just a panic to trigger emotions?
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nathan Cofnas should be considered in context of a wider movement that's been trying to bring back “race science” and eugenics counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/rebranding...
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The likes of Toby Young talk about academic freedom when it comes to defending "race scientists" but then attack scientific journals
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Response to Mostert retraction demonstrates the rise of anti-science Accusations of “political interference” by the Telegraph's Science Editor Sarah Knapton and Toby Young undermines science and boosters conspiracy theorists counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/response-t...
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Response to Mostert retraction demonstrates the rise of anti-science
Accusations of “political interference” by the Telegraph's Science Editor Sarah Knapton and Toby Young undermines science and boosters conspiracy theorists
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Free Speech Union crowdfunder incoming...
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Scottish NICPM downgrades Covid to lowest level R1 This follows Health & Safety Executive reclassifying from Haz Group 3 down to Haz Group 2 in May. Decision will leave HCWs and patients without appropriate protection. counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/scottish-n...
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Scottish NICPM downgrades Covid to lowest level R1
This follows Health & Safety Executive reclassifying from Haz Group 3 down to Haz Group 2 in May. Decision will leave HCWs and patients without appropriate protection.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Guy who normalized RFK and Makary is now trust in science reporter at STAT. 🤦‍♂️
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somecallmeDC 🐥 🥚 💡 (not that DC) @somecallmedc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Daft decision beyond daft decisions, this. Long covid is outcome of SARS2. Good employers take care about disease in the workplace. Other employers need rules. Weaken them rules and see more employees infected wi a virus that can wreck health of people that survive it.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I don't believe Byline Times' extensive reporting on Cambridge academic - and Reform policy chief - James Orr has received a single piece of pick-up by other outlets
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We would absolutely do worse if a new pandemic came right now. These people are in charge.
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Stephen Miller lies about vaccines and wants unvaccinated kids to get sick
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Imagine if Didier Raoult’s (far more consequential) academic misdemeanours had received any where near the media attention Arday’s did. retractionwatch.com/2024/01/08/j...
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Journals retract six Didier Raoult papers for ethics violations
Didier Raoult Two journals of a leading microbiology society have retracted six articles by Didier Raoult after a university investigation found breaches of research ethics in his work.  A sev…
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n_ootpinguwalda @nootpinguwalda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Erm, why? As far as I know, it’s just as dangerous as it’s always been? Sure, vaccines may have reduced acute disease severity - but they do nothing for long covid. This seems highly reckless to me.
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Scottish NICPM downgrades Covid to lowest level R1 This follows Health & Safety Executive reclassifying from Haz Group 3 down to Haz Group 2 in May. Decision will leave HCWs and patients without appropriate protection. counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/scottish-n...
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Scottish NICPM downgrades Covid to lowest level R1
This follows Health & Safety Executive reclassifying from Haz Group 3 down to Haz Group 2 in May. Decision will leave HCWs and patients without appropriate protection.
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Those in the media who were most exercised about Arday in regards to plagiarism and making stuff up are predominantly those who have made a career peddling untruths on the necessity of austerity, the benefits of Brexit, climate change denial, covid disinformation and culture wars crap in general
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
IPSO ruling forces Telegraph to print correction after misrepresenting UKHSA on vaccine data request A look at the ruling and Political Editor Camilla Turner's frequent "sane washing" of anti-vax disinformation groups' misrepresentations counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/ipso-rulin...
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IPSO ruling forces Telegraph to print correction after misrepresenting UKHSA on vaccine data request
A look at the ruling and Political Editor Camilla Turner's frequent "sane washing" of anti-vax disinformation groups' misrepresentations
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So Free Speech Union board member Pearson now seems to think any criticism of Reform is inciting hatred, this from a women who has tried to turn Lucy Connolly into a hero. Also her previous called for banning all Afghan men from the UK
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"
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