\n\n\u2018Mind control\u2019: The secret UK government blueprints shaping post-terror planning
\nThe British government has prepared for terrorist incidents by pre-planning social media campaigns that are designed to appear to be a spontaneous public response to attacks, Middle East Eye has learned.
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Hashtags are carefully tested before attacks happen, Instagram images selected, and \u201cimpromptu\u201d street posters are printed.
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In operations that contingency planners term \u201ccontrolled spontaneity\u201d, politicians\u2019 statements, vigils and inter-faith events are also negotiated and planned in readiness for any terrorist attack.
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I fully believe this based on the inorganic way the numerous 2017 terror attacks were received and reacted to by the public
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"}The day after the London Bridge attacks, a team of men arrived at the scene of the murders in an unmarked van.
They could be seen being admitted behind the police cordon, where \nthey plastered walls with a number of posters bearing images of London, \nand number of hashtags that were already circulating on Twitter: \n#TurnToLove, #For London and #LoveWillWin.
This practice, known in the UK as fly-posting, is a minor criminal \noffence, but police admitted the members of the fly-posting team behind \ntheir cordon and took no action. The men doing this work declined to \ntell journalists who they were, or where they were from.
When the cordon was eventually lifted and members of the public were \nable to return to the scene of the attacks, they found themselves \nsurrounded by apparently impromptu signs of the public\u2019s defiance and \nunity.