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Biden administration takes heat over DHS disinformation board
Washington Examiner ^ | 4/30/22 | Haisten Willis

Posted on 04/30/2022 4:53:17 AM PDT by Libloather

News that the Biden administration's Department of Homeland Security had formed a Disinformation Governance Board was met with swift backlash from conservatives and free speech advocates worried about how the board will function and how it comports with the First Amendment.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas mentioned the board Wednesday during a hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, saying his department had just recently constituted the board. But the disinformation entity's name and mission set off red flags over potential free speech violations.

"The federal government is supposed to not impede free speech, and that's exactly what this board is going to do," said Lora Ries, a former DHS deputy chief of staff and director of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center. "It's not at all part of the mission of the Department of Homeland Security."

Critics swiftly compared the board to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. One of the key concerns is who will decide what constitutes disinformation, Ries added. On this measure, the disinformation board attracted additional scrutiny.

Nina Jankowicz, who was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center and adviser to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship, confirmed Wednesday that she had been named executive director of the board. However, Jankowicz has a history of sharing misleading claims about British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited Trump dossier and downplaying the controversy embroiling Hunter Biden.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: board; brandon; dhs; disinformation
I hear it'll be big into choosing truth over facts.
1 posted on 04/30/2022 4:53:18 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Please let this sack of shit become a reality. Will be the greatest source of ridicule in history.


2 posted on 04/30/2022 4:57:04 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Libloather

Will they produce the real long-form birth certificate?


3 posted on 04/30/2022 5:07:50 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Libloather
Nina Jankowicz, who was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center and adviser to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry

Funny that everything that is rotten and corrupt in our country seems to have some heavy involvement in Ukraine.

4 posted on 04/30/2022 5:14:51 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Sirius Lee

“Funny that everything that is rotten and corrupt in our country seems to have some heavy involvement in Ukraine.:

And seems to start with the Woodrow Wilson Administration.


5 posted on 04/30/2022 5:29:06 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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To: Libloather

the purpose of the disgovernance board is to give social media orders on who to ban, cancel, etc.

pure fascism


6 posted on 04/30/2022 5:34:49 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Sirius Lee
"Western governments"(US) helped Ukraine gain independence in 1990 and it's been US pols' playground and shush fund ever since. In 2004 they had a color revolution. That was practice for the one we're going through now.

More on Nina Jankowiczhttps://www.revolver.news/2022/04/nina-jankowicz-bidens-new-minister-of-truth-moaning-myrtle-rundown/

Flashback

Then of course we all know about Burisma and the children of pols

7 posted on 04/30/2022 5:59:07 AM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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To: neverevergiveup

Now THAT is a great comment!!!!!!!


8 posted on 04/30/2022 6:08:22 AM PDT by NEBO (We are swimming in a cesspool of lies so fetid it’s impossible to know what’s true. Clyde Lewis)
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To: Libloather

This administration deserves to be burned to the ground because that is precisely what they are doing to the country.


9 posted on 04/30/2022 6:25:28 AM PDT by euram
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To: Libloather

Where all the Disinformation comes from


10 posted on 04/30/2022 6:26:16 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

I was appalled that no one seemed to be objecting to this silent invasion of our Freedom of Speech.

FINALLY, yesterday Ron DeSantis spoke and railed against it.

We are doomed unless “we all” are ready to fight this assault.

I, as everyone here, feel STRONGLY ABOUT THE FIRST AMENDMENT.


11 posted on 04/30/2022 6:39:53 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Sirius Lee

It is true and it sure isn’t funny. Something really stinks regarding that.


12 posted on 04/30/2022 6:42:34 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

...unless it keeps us from discussing it!


13 posted on 04/30/2022 7:04:38 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (D.H.S. = Defund Homeland Security)
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To: Libloather

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1520080941229694976

.apparently nina is also a graduate of the

Bill Barr Bullsh!tter
Song and Dance Academy.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1520058667713896448

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1310959860410970119

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1309908837911142402

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1309947228388294658

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1519879946000388096

.


14 posted on 04/30/2022 7:17:18 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: butlerweave

My list of prime sources of disinformation. Shut these down first:

New York Times
WaPo
CNN
NPR
NBC
MSNBC

Note that Huffington is not on the list, they’ve mostly shut themselves down.


15 posted on 04/30/2022 7:19:52 AM PDT by AlbertWang
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To: Libloather

Will the Disinformation Governance be making house calls like the KGB did?.


16 posted on 04/30/2022 7:30:24 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Libloather

I’ve (easily) composed a list of truths or “information” that must be maintained by the “Disinformation Governance Board”

————-
Antifa are not fascists.
The hundreds of riots in 2019-2020 were “mostly peaceful“

The ONE riot on January 6 was a threat to democracy and an attempted Insurrection!

President Trump called white supremacists in Charlottesville Virginia “good people“.

Joe Biden’s family is not corrupt. That’s a “conspiracy theory”.

Joe Biden inherited a corrupt and damaged border policy from President Trump.

The Obama administration was without a single controversy

Democrats favor free speech.

Prostitutes peed on a bed in Moscow

Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in America.

Hunter Biden is the smartest man Joe Biden knows.

Joe doesn’t know anything about Hunter’s business deals.

There’s more than one gender.

82 million people voted for Joe Biden- fewer people voted for Barack Obama.

The CDC “follows the science”.

Requiring photo ID to vote is racist.

Joe Biden did not have close contact with Nancy Pelosi just before she tested positive.

Our military withdrawal from Afghanistan was well-organized and orderly. It was all Trump’s fault that people died because President Biden was compelled to follow through on the deal that President Trump had already made.

The wall on the Mexican border did not need to be completed.

Global warming is “ settled science“

Five-year-olds can choose their gender. Their parents are not to be informed.

Parents who go to school board meetings are anarchists and white racists

This time, Socialism will work! Because it’s “Democratic Socialism”

Even more gun laws will stop gun crimes.

If something isn’t right, “It’s Trump’s fault!”

It was not the Democrats who have been the racists ever since the 1860s, it’s the Republicans. Something about Republicans changed, but we can’t quite say what that was.

Republicans are the cause of urban crime all across the country, even though Democrats have been in control of most major cities for decades

More Government spending, or “Investing” will solve any problem.

The Second Amendment is about hunting. It’s not about the “security of a free State”. If it’s written somewhere in cursive, it’s racist.

The US Constitution needs to be interpreted in the context of today because it was written by white slaveowners.

Joe Biden had nothing of particular interest to say at the January 2018 Council on Foreign Relations meeting

The Obama White House was the most transparent administration of all time

Everyone needs a “safe space“

Men can become Pregnant

The founding fathers could not have known what kinds of “arms” would be available in the 21st century, so magazines should not have more than 10 rounds.

Joe Biden does not need a cognitive test.

Corn Pop was a bad dude AND he ran some bad boys.

Defunding police and replacing cops with social workers will make people safer. Reimagine THAT!

The Iran nuclear deal will slow Iran’s pace to have nuclear weapons.

Ashley Babbitt was not murdered.

Joe Biden is a foreign policy expert.

Jill Biden is a doctor. Hunter Biden is an artist.

Climate change is real in the winter. In the summer, it’s called “global warming”

“Russia! Russia! Russia!” makes sense.

If a black man kills another black man in the city, we don’t need to “say his name“

If “whatever” is not already taxed, it needs to be regulated

NPR is unbiased and should get Federal funding.

White people are oppressors.

An unorganized mass of cells only becomes a human after it is born. Even then, there’s some debate because “it’s my body, it’s my choice!“

Joe Biden got involved in politics because of the environmental impact of a new highway in Delaware. Joe Biden got involved in politics because of apartheid in South Africa. Oddly, Joe Biden got involved in politics because he thought politicians were unscrupulous. All of this is true, simultaneously.

Transgender “women” can compete with normal women. They have no inherent advantage. If you think they do, you have tranny-phobia.

1619 teaches true US history.

If something has a negative impact, then it is disproportionately bad for minority communities.

Today’s economy is growing at record levels.

“Hands up don’t shoot!“ happened just as certainly as Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist.

(Just in case…)

/sarc


17 posted on 04/30/2022 7:33:22 AM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: Libloather

What’d that take -— about 5 minutes? Lord have mercy on us, this administration (and most of Congress and the judiciary) are evil incarnate.


18 posted on 04/30/2022 7:41:13 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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