Revealed: NSOIT The Secret Government Department Censoring Your Facebook Posts
- Editor Darren Birks
- Aug 1
- 2 min read
This isn’t “online safety”—it’s state-sponsored censorship of dissenting voices. A shadowy team acting exactly the same as George Orwell's 'Ministry of Truth'.
It wasn't your imagination: Leaked emails reveal a secret Whitehall unit under Peter Kyle is making tech firms hide posts about migrant hotels, asylum seekers, and “two-tier” policing.
Not illegal posts. Not threats. Just opinions that the government doesn't like.
This isn’t “online safety”—it’s state-sponsored censorship of dissenting voices. A shadowy team acting exactly the same as George Orwell's 'Ministry of Truth'. The British government don't want debate, don't want resistance. They want obedience.
The British government are terrified of free speech—because they’re terrified of the truth.
Here's what you need to know:
A Commons committee says the UK government pressured tech platforms to suppress anti-government content online. At the centre of it all a little-known unit called NSOIT.
NSOIT (National Security Online Interference Team) allegedly flagged posts to social media platforms — posts that weren’t illegal, just 'harmful' (to the government) demanding that they were erased from the internet.
The government are, however, still actively gaslighting the public, saying they were "Just helping platforms enforce their own rules". “Free speech is a cornerstone of our democracy… The Act places no curbs on what adults can say online — unless it’s already illegal offline.”
Officials admit to “flagging” content that violates platform terms, especially after violent events like the Southport attack.
“We make no apologies,” the spokesman added.
NSOIT’s role has been secretive — until now. How can a government department be set up without public knowledge, or approval, and operate with no oversight in what is supposed to be a free and democratic country?
Reporting by the Telegraph:
A secretive Whitehall “spy” unit has been used by the Government to target social media posts criticising migrant hotels and “two-tier policing”.
The Telegraph can reveal that officials working for Peter Kyle, the Technology Secretary, have flagged videos with “concerning narratives” to social media giants including TikTok, warning that they were “exacerbating tensions” on the streets.
Emails recovered by a US congressional committee show that civil servants have complained to tech firms about content mentioning asylum seekers, immigration and two-tier policing.
The dossier has emerged as ministers battle claims that the UK is censoring social media with the Online Safety Act, including from allies of Donald Trump, the US president.
The disclosure reveals that members of the Government’s National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) complained about a series of posts that were critical of mass migration and asylum hotels in August last year during the Southport riots.
The team, based in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, was previously known as the Counter Disinformation Unit and was used during the Covid pandemic to monitor anti-lockdown campaigners.
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