From Epstein’s Network to Your Newsfeed: How a British Political Operation Became America’s Censorship Engine

Reprinted with permission of Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo.com

DISCLOSURE

I am Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo.com and a named plaintiff in Finn v. Global Engagement Center, Case No. 3:25-cv-00543-WWB-MCR, pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. I have a direct financial interest in the outcome of that litigation. Everything that follows is documented with primary sources and hyperlinked citations. I have separated my personal experience from the investigative record throughout.

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On Tuesday, April 28, 2026, the man who put my name on a list — a list a US President used to call twelve Americans killers — will sit before the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee and answer questions under oath for the first time in his career. His mentor was just arrested for leaking government secrets to Jeffrey Epstein.

It is, by all Westminster accounts, an extraordinary summons. Chiefs of staff to British Prime Ministers almost never appear before parliamentary committees, even after leaving post. McSweeney has been exceptional even by that standard: during his entire tenure as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, he issued precisely one public statement — the statement announcing his own resignation.(1)

Morgan McSweeney, a council estate in Barking and the fight against populism. The British press will cover Tuesday as a story about Peter Mandelson, Jeffrey Epstein, and a botched ambassador vetting. They will miss the larger story entirely.

Morgan McSweeney is not just Keir Starmer’s disgraced former chief of staff. He is the founding architect of the Center for Countering Digital Hate — the organization whose fraudulent report a US President cited to declare that twelve named American citizens were killing people.

The parliamentary drama playing out this week is not separate from what is happening in a federal courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida. It is the same story — finally becoming visible at both ends simultaneously.

On April 24, 2026 — four days before McSweeney’s testimony — CCDH filed its motion to dismiss the federal civil rights lawsuit brought by six of the Americans it targeted. The motion argues that plaintiffs “do not allege that CCDH or Mr. Ahmed even communicated with the White House, the Surgeon General, or Meta, or any party mentioned” in the case.(2) A conference attendee list documents Ahmed convening a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy advisor, State Department officials, congressional staffers, and the UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications at a private CCDH-organized event in Washington in the summer of 2024.(3)

That is the factual contradiction at the center of this moment. And it connects directly to the man testifying Tuesday.

PART ONE: WHAT WAS BUILT IN ROOM 216

To understand what McSweeney’s Tuesday testimony means, you need to understand what he built and why. In 2018, McSweeney was running Labour Together — a nominally reformist think tank operating out of Room 216, China Works, Brixton, south London. As investigative journalist Paul Holden documents in The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy — a 544-page investigation supported by a substantial leak of internal Labour Party files — only three people besides McSweeney were allowed to work from Room 216. Two were junior staffers. The third was Imran Ahmed, who had served as head of communications for Angela Eagle during her failed 2016 leadership challenge against Jeremy Corbyn.(4)

Together, McSweeney and Ahmed deployed a specific political weapon: framing opposition not as a disagreement to be argued but as a moral contagion to be quarantined. Inside the Labour Party, they deployed antisemitism accusations to delegitimize Corbyn’s allies without engaging their actual positions. The accusation was designed to be unfalsifiable. The denial was treated as confirmation. It worked devastatingly.

On October 19, 2018, a company was registered on Companies House under the name Brixton Endeavours Limited. Its sole director was Morgan McSweeney. Its address was shared with Labour Together. Brixton Endeavours was renamed the Center for Countering Digital Hate in September 2019. McSweeney remained a listed director until April 2020 — two days after Starmer won the Labour leadership election, the outcome the entire operation had been engineered to produce.(5)

Labour Together — the vehicle McSweeney ran as company secretary during this same period — failed to report £849,429 in donations to the UK Electoral Commission, in violation of UK electoral law. Holden’s position is that the non-reporting may have been deliberate.(6)

The machine had been built to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn was destroyed. The machine did not shut down. It crossed the Atlantic.

Follow this link for the remaining parts of this fascinating and comprehensive article.
Part 2 on how CCDH moved to the US in 2021, and began creating havoc for those of us in the Disinformation Dozen. And there’s Parts 3 to 8.