Your sources are from thegrayzone? You should learn to consider your sources...
To elaborate further: "Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left."
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/07/paul-masons-covert-intell...
edit: cleared by MI5 just like every other BBC journalist in Britain, but moreso, seeing as he was the economics editor for BBC Newsnight, then for Channel 4 News.
https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/mi5.bbc.staf...
https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/mi5.bbc.page...
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43754737
edit: to be clear, when I say he's a spy, I mean that he is being paid by British intelligence to report on the operations of left wing organizations, sabotage them, push them into doing extreme and unpopular things which also hopefully constitute grounds for arresting targeted individuals, and to say obnoxious things that piss normies off as a representative of "the left" in mainstream media.
edit: allegedly.