Thread from September 24th 2024
"ISD’s state partners include the British Home Office, the United States Department of Homeland Security, the US State Department and the British Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, the successor of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office..." reported Gript this week.
...This Department is the one under which MI6 the foreign intelligence agency formally operates." The ISD also targeted this account, on the spurious grounds of "misgendering" male swimmer "Lia" Thomas, a man:
On being challenged the Institute for Strategic Dialogue thought better of including this account in its report "Uisce Faoi Thalamh: An Investigation into Online Disinformation in Ireland"
The ISD sits on one of the subgroups of the Government's National Counter Disinformation Strategy
No wonder Ireland is known as the US's 51st state.
ISD also gets a mention in this article in Gript from January 2024.