Ben Nimmo

Ben Nimmo  (propagandist)
Member of	Atlantic Council, DFR Lab, DisinfoPortal, EXPOSE Network, Graphika, Institute for Statecraft, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core
Interests	• “Russian Propaganda” • Fake news • dark web
journalist  In office 2004 - 2011 Preceded by Scott Shane Succeeded by Gianni Riotta Including EU and NATO correspondent German Press Agency)  NATO press officer In office 2011 - 2014 In office 2015 - Present Employer Institute for Statecraft

Ben Nimmo as of 2019 was a "Senior Fellow for Information Defense, Digital Forensic Research Lab". He also has an author page at Disinfoportal.

Career

RT asked in December 2018 "Why is paid Integrity Initiative hitman Ben Nimmo still used as ‘independent’ expert by MSM?"

“Ben Nimmo works for the Atlantic Council, funded inter alia by NATO. He is also on a retainer of £2,500 per month from the Integrity Initiative, in addition to payments for individual pieces of work. For his attack on Scottish Nationalists Nimmo was therefore paid by the Atlantic Council (your taxes through NATO), by the Integrity Initiative (your taxes) and by the Herald (thankfully shortly going bankrupt)... Nimmo’s role as witchfinder-general for Russian Bots appears very remunerative. His August 2016 invoice to The Institute for Statecraft, apparently the 71st invoice he had issued to various neo-con bodies that year, was for £5,000.”
Craig Murray (22 December 2018) 

A 2016 "impact assessment" leaked from the II revealed that Nimmo had made at least 2 complaints to Ofcom.

Opinions

Ben Nimmo, introduced as a “defence analyst” in The Times, stated that Sputnik News is “an instrument of Russian state power, not an independent journalism outlet.”

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author
Graphika	“Who funds net nanny Graphika? Their venture capital was raised privately, in two tranches of about three million dollars each, in 2014 and 2019. We do know who they work with. Their current “Innovation Officer” is Camille François, who once worked for Google’s analytics offshoot Jigsaw before quitting to run a secretive project for the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, alongside now Graphika CEO John Kelly (no relation to the Marine.) Their December 2018 reporting helped “prove” how the Russians used social media networks like Facebook and Twitter to influence the 2016 election. Graphika also has ties to the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Defense Department’s Minerva Initiative. If you pay to look at their stuff you realize they write like spooks, talk like spooks, and snitch out news sites like spooks. So you can decide if they’re involved in all this again because they are just good at proving Russian stuff or because they are tied to a corporate-quasi government structure alongside the intel community......What is missing from Graphika’s work is any evidence whatsoever of any actual influence on the only thing that matters: how people vote. Graphika offers nothing quantitative, claiming only that by using American freelancers PeaceData was part of the “fabric” of communities and this made them credible.”	Peter van Buren

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Tackling Tools of Malign Influence	1 November 2018	2 November 2018	London Frontline Club	Integrity Initiative conference about "Russian Propaganda"

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense	blog post	3 September 2020	Craig Murray	The US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time. Navalny is certainly a victim of international politics. That he is a victim of Putin I tend to doubt.

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