Posted on 05/06/2022 3:47:15 PM PDT by Drew68
The Department of Homeland Security is not starting up a “Ministry of Truth.” But the agency should be as transparent as possible about what its Disinformation Governance Board actually will be up to.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spent the weekend trying to mop up after his department’s botched announcement of a newly launched group tasked with countering the spread of false narratives. The rollout was ham-handed: With only mentions of this ill-defined entity’s existence and little explanation of its mission or the scope of its authority, conservatives were free to turn the board into a boogeyman in their broader anti-censorship crusade. But the reality isn’t nearly so scary as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) invocation of George Orwell’s “1984” would suggest.
The Disinformation Governance Board, (whose acronym is the Soviet-sounding DGB) is supposed to aid coordination among DHS offices as they counter viral lies and propaganda that pose a threat to domestic security. Done right, this is a useful function. Mr. Mayorkas mentioned campaigns by human smugglers targeting migrants to trick the Haitian community into thinking they could enter the United States without risk of deportation. Russia’s persistent efforts to influence U.S. elections are well known. Studying the “best practices” for stymying these attempts and sharing them with government actors could do a great deal of good.
What the board is not tasked to do is to establish what is true and what is false, or to push Internet services or anyone else to rake a tougher line on expression in general. Indeed, the board has no operational authority at all.
Already, components of the agency are gathering knowledge about what rumors are circulating so that they might respond.
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Be sure to put this one in the vault for when President Trump or President DeSantis places their guy in charge.
I'd like to suggest Alex Jones.
I'm certain the WP editorial board will have something different to say.
Sez the Bezos Blog.
Isn’t this the same clownshow that told documented RUSSIA COLLUSION lies for four years?
Alex would make heads explode. The tears would taste delicious…
“The Department of Homeland Security is not starting up a “Ministry of Truth.””
Wrong...
Disinformation on steroids. [as usual]
The problem with this board is that in order to know what is or isn’t disinformation, you must first determine what is the truth.
The nutbag they put in charge wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked her right in her ugly insane woke face
Tells you all you need to know.
The Ministry of Propaganda is trying to give a helping hand to the Ministry of Truth.
“Indeed, the board has no operational authority at all.”
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Then why create it in the first place. Likely a placeholder for the real thing which will be snuck into some huge multi-thousand page Congressional bill no one will read before it becomes law.
Yeah, Nina ‘tiktok’ skankowitz won’t use it against u.s. citizens. No, really. 🐂💩
I'd suggest it just for the entertainment factor alone.
He'd also be a great pick to demonstrate the absolute absurdity of the position.
Jones would probably get the joke and play along.
I feel much better now.
The spokes-rag for the ministry of truth says there’s nothing to worry about.
They have their first work cut out for them. There are some nasty rumors circulating, all obviously untrue, that they will have to dispatch post haste.
Rumor #1: Biden is non compos mentis.
Rumor #2: Soros and Obama are in charge.
Rumor #3: Harris has the intellectual heft of a fifth grader and banged her way to the top.
Rumor #4: COVID is over and nobody wants to wear a mask again.
Don’t worry Washington Compost. I worry.
He would definitely get it. Most of “his persona” is an act.
That’s why Joe Rogan likes him so much.
Come on. We all know how credible our friends at the WaPo toilet paper company are.
Didn't they say the same thing about the CDC?
“The CDC has no operational authority at all. But we're going to mandate by force of law everything they ask us to do."
According to this propaganda, the new Ministry of Truth’s war on Freedom of Speech is perfectly fine, and it just needed to be presented in a different way so the peasants would revolt less.
Rumor #3: Harris has the intellectual heft of a fifth grader and banged her way to the top.
I so feel relieved now that the Compost editorial board put my hysteria to rest. DHA doesn’t realize this is the nail in their coffin come November? The AG thinks the public was clamoring for this? It’s going to be fun to watch the “new improved” Twitter and Social Truth expose all this.
The commie head of DGB, she will last about 6 months as she is exposed for what she is. Fun times.
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