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 ...
Please let this sack of shit become a reality. Will be the greatest source of ridicule in history.
Will they produce the real long-form birth certificate?
Funny that everything that is rotten and corrupt in our country seems to have some heavy involvement in Ukraine.
“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.
the purpose of the disgovernance board is to give social media orders on who to ban, cancel, etc.
pure fascism
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
Now THAT is a great comment!!!!!!!
This administration deserves to be burned to the ground because that is precisely what they are doing to the country.
Where all the Disinformation comes from
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.
It is true and it sure isn’t funny. Something really stinks regarding that.
...unless it keeps us from discussing it!
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
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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.
Will the Disinformation Governance be making house calls like the KGB did?.
I’ve (easily) composed a list of truths or “information” that must be maintained by the “Disinformation Governance Board”
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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
What’d that take -— about 5 minutes? Lord have mercy on us, this administration (and most of Congress and the judiciary) are evil incarnate.
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