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There has been a recent spate of propaganda pieces targeting Moroccan dissidents, journalists and activists on obscure european and US websites. Let's take a look at who their authors are.
Let's start with Gary Cartwright, a http://eutoday.net editor who's regularly commissioned to promote a positive image of Morocco.
While Omar Radi is indicted for allegedly collaborating with a former MI6 agent, the country hires *a former British Royal Air Force operator* to smear Omar Radi, and inform us that Morocco is a "land of openness" that abides by the highest standards of press freedom.
Thank God, we didn't notice it.
Here are some of his stories about Omar Radi's case:
https://www.eupoliticalreport.eu/omar-radi-unfounded-allegations-of-judicial-harassment/
https://eutoday.net/news/human-rights/2020/setting-the-record-straight
https://www.eupoliticalreport.eu/omar-radi-unfounded-allegations-of-judicial-harassment/
https://eutoday.net/news/human-rights/2020/setting-the-record-straight
Gary Cartwright is a freelance author writing State-sponsored pieces for a variety of (authoritarian) regimes.
Youssef Hamouch wrote an excellent Facebook post about this guy (in arabic): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2716533468628580&id=100008158594937
Youssef Hamouch wrote an excellent Facebook post about this guy (in arabic): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2716533468628580&id=100008158594937
A former UKIP collaborator (who even UKIP described as an "extremist", as he himself admits: http://gary-brusselsblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/working-with-ukip.html), he's a racist, islamophobic individual, but doesn't mind getting paid by Muslim states to do their PR. Here are some of his Facebook posts (only public stuff).
Besides Morocco, he is an active promoter of Kazakhstan's propaganda, another democratic and respectable State.
I quote the next two pieces with some caution, bearing in mind that the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) is itself subject to much criticism. Knowing very little about the foundation and its work, I can't comment on the accusations directed at the ODF.
But anyway, the pieces mention facts that are easily provable:
In this paper, we learn that Gary Cartwright spoke at a EU parliament conference that "was published solely on Kazakhstan’s propaganda Internet resources." https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/8473,a-smear-campaign-against-the-open-dialogue-foundation-has-reached-the-walls-of-the-european-parliament-updated/
"Information about the event was disseminated by Kazakhstan’s pro-governmental media, as well as the information resources where Gary Cartwright and Jarosław Jakimczyk publish their materials.
"The Kazakhstani authorities frequently use the videotape from the conference for propaganda purposes."
Sounds familiar, since Gary Cartwright's pieces are often replicated in Moroccan domestic propaganda media, in both french and arabic.
Sounds familiar, since Gary Cartwright's pieces are often replicated in Moroccan domestic propaganda media, in both french and arabic.
He is also suspected of having ties to a fake European Union Anti-Corruption Initiative Facebook page with purchased followers, in which defamatory content targeting some individuals is disseminated. https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/8941,warning-re-suspicious-group-impersonating-an-eu-body-or-pro-eu-civic-organisation/
"From September onward, there were 17 tweets & retweets (mostly original tweets) attacking Kozlovska & ODF, even using Kazakh fakes like the infamous “sex tape”. "This is a typical pattern for fake accounts:
Pretending at first to support a case or issue to get followers from the community and build credibility, and then switching sides and reaching a target audience that would have otherwise never followed the account."
Rings a bell ?
Different countries, same shit...
Rings a bell ?
Different countries, same shit...
