DHS created ‘disinformation governance’ team to track election misinformation

From Washington Times.com (Apr. 28):

The Department of Homeland Security has created a “disinformation” board led by a woman who has criticized First Amendment rights and dismissed troubling reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a “Trump campaign” ploy.

Nina Jankowicz has been on the job for a couple of months, but Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas only revealed the disinformation board’s existence this week in testimony to Congress, when prodded about what his department is doing to help minority communities combat election disinformation.

“The goal is to bring the resources of the department together to address this threat,” Mr. Mayorkas told lawmakers.

Homeland Security described the board’s expansive duties, saying it will combat the wide swath of disinformation. In the immediate term, its focus will be on disinformation surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and on the messaging smuggling groups are peddling to would-be illegal immigrants, the department said.

But the broad scope of its purview and the appointment of Ms. Jankowicz as its lead have raised questions about the board.

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, called the board a “speech police.”

Lora Ries, a former Homeland Security deputy chief of staff and director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, called the board “an overtly political ploy” to try to chase opposing viewpoints from the political debate ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

“The left can no longer use COVID restrictions or now, seemingly Twitter, to mislabel and hide legitimate information American voters should have in casting their ballots. Instead, they are standing up this board to declare what the left believes is mis- or dis-information,” Ms. Ries said.

She also said policing disinformation “is not remotely the mission of the Department of Homeland Security.” [read more]

Boys and girls can you say Ministry of Truth? Dumb idea. This is from the regime who’s president lies about his past. Then you have the fake Russiagate. Then again this is from the party who believes voters are sheep and they are the shepherd who knows better than the sheep what’s good for them.

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