Disinformation Governance Board

'You cannot have a Ministry of Truth in this country. We're not going to let Biden get away with this one. So we will be fighting back,' the Republican said ...

Last year, CP3 awarded about $20 million in grants through its Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program. It is unclear how much cash will be spent on the Disinformation Board. 'I confess I at first thought this announcement was satire,' he continued. We’re not going to let Biden get away with this one. So we will be fighting back,' Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Friday at a news conference Mayorkas noted that the focus of the new board would be to stop the spread of misinformation in minority communities, including election misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms. So we will be fighting back,' the Republican said on Friday at a news conference. They’re laundering disinfo and we really should take note. We’re not going to let Biden get away with this one. Or you can try to silence your critics. The head of the Biden administration's new 'Disinformation Governance Board' Nina Jankowicz sings about 'misinformation' to the tune of Mary Poppins song 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' DeSantis led the uptick in fury as Republican Senator Tom Cotton said he would introduce legislation to have the new 'Disinformation' board defunded and a new video showed its head Nina Jankowicz singing about 'misinformation' to the tune of the Mary Poppins song 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' 'When you’re not doing well, you have two options: You can try to do better.

The immediate focus will be on misinformation from human smugglers, who spread falsehoods about border policy to migrants to help drum up business.

The outrageous misinformation about the vaccine." My hope is that Facebook, instead of taking it personally that somehow I'm saying Facebook is killing people, that they would do something about the misinformation. Blasting the problem of COVID-19 misinformation last summer, President Biden said, "Anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. The heads of several large tech companies, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, have testified before Congress about their efforts to try to address it. The board will focus on disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading messages about the U.S.-Mexico border, the Associated Press reports. Disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz will lead the board.

The uproar in the right-wing monkeyhouse over Biden's "Disinformation Governance Board" rings a little hollow.

But I am not going to listen to it at the moment from the party of insurrection, the party of book-banning and library-scouring, the party of dangerous myth-making bullshit about “grooming” and (eek!) “critical race theory,” the party full of people who still bend the knee to the Prince of 30,000 Lies down in Florida. Hell, this is a party that lies to itself. “The Biden Administration has not proven itself to be a credible arbiter of ‘disinformation.’ Instead, it has taken steps to silence information that is unflattering to this Administration under the guise of ‘disinformation.’ For example, unnamed intelligence officials, the media, and social media platforms engaged in a coordinated effort to censor stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop and his questionable financial dealings under the false label of ‘disinformation.’ "This is the kind of thing that you see in dictatorships, this ‘Ministry of Truth’," she said. “This is dangerous and un-American. The board should be immediately dissolved.” In an April 28 letter to Mayorkas, Hawley questioned why the board was announced shortly after Tesla Inc.CEO Elon Musk‘s acquisition of Twitter Inc., which Republicans view as a win for free speech. “We are addressing all aspects of election security, given, of course, the midterm elections that are upon us, and the fundamental integrity of our democratic processes that is at stake,” Mayorkas told the House Homeland Security Committee. Ahead of the November midterm election, the Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers are looking to tackle disinformation — deliberately deceptive messaging — on issues including the pandemic, the 2020 election, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told a House panel Wednesday that the governance board would counter the threat of misinformation and disinformation for elections and homeland security.

The federal government says it will help fend off Russian disinformation efforts. Critics call it "dystopian" and a threat to free speech in the United ...

The announcement of the Homeland Security Department initiative has sparked backlash on the right — though we don't know much about what the board would do.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the new board would be “a continuation of the work of the former president” when asked about it Friday.) But Jordan’s contention that she said the “Hunter Biden laptop story was false” oversimplifies both the verification of the information and her argument — as she said in response to critics Wednesday. Now that I've got it: a HUGE focus of our work, and indeed, one of the key reasons the Board was established, is to maintain the Dept's committment to protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, & civil liberties. Somewhat similarly, the name “Disinformation Governance Board” does sound a bit ominous; it sounds less like an effort to combat disinformation than to, well, govern it. “Congressman, the Disinformation Board addresses disinformation that imperils the safety and security of our homeland,” Mayorkas said. But the stated purpose of the effort was quite different from how it was cast by its opponents. And as The Post’s Philip Bump noted, even the computer repairman who handed over the laptop has said that certain claims about what’s on it don’t reflect what he initially saw. And since at least 2014, the U.S. has been bedeviled by the perception in some Central American countries that the United States is offering “permisos” for children who cross the border illegally — a rumor that picked up steam after President Obama announced he would not deport children who had come into the country illegally with their parents. Amid growing anti-censorship fervor on the right, a bevy of Republicans have suggested that the initiative amounts to policing speech. Mayorkas indicated its mandate was narrower than that: focusing on threats to the homeland. In a separate hearing, he mentioned it briefly as part of efforts to combat Russian misinformation. “Our focus should be on bad actors like Russia and China, not our own citizens.”

It is very easy to read “Disinformation Governance Board” and think it is some Orwellian government program designed to qualitatively analyze information in ...

The lack of clear information about what it is, what it does. The sociology of mass communications is a deep and rich subject, and one that bears very heavily on the policy challenges of the day. It provides no concrete explanation of what the board will do to accomplish that, and again it allows political opponents to just make up whatever they want. Of course, that’s almost certainly not what’s in store (beyond the Constitutional problems with such a thing, it wouldn’t make any sense at all). But without knowing what is instead planned, it’s hard to know what to think about it. It is very easy to read “Disinformation Governance Board” and think it is some Orwellian government program designed to qualitatively analyze information in order to deem it either suitable to be expressed, or forbidden. Indeed, the decision to announce this in a weird, furtive way, without details, focus, or explicit limitations, only served to create a firestorm of rage among the Fox News set.

What does it say about those on the right who hear about efforts to combat misinformation and immediately take offense?

The message from the right was a bit more revealing than Republicans probably intended. That makes sense: Among those most eager to use disinformation are human smugglers south of the border. “The spread of disinformation can affect border security, Americans’ safety during disasters, and public trust in our democratic institutions,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. The report had been commissioned by the Bush/Cheney administration, but congressional Republicans and conservative media freaked out anyway, suggesting that the Obama administration was preparing to target political opponents on the right. When Homeland Security officials raised concerns about potentially violent radicals, and their possible impact on public safety, quite a few conservatives quickly assumed that this described them. This reminds me of a story from 13 years ago.

WILLISTON (CBS Miami) — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took aim at the Biden administration's recent move to create a “Disinformation Governance Board” as a ...

They want to be able to advocate for COVID lockdowns.” “They want to be able to put out false narratives without people being able to speak out and fight back They want to be able to say things like Russia collusion. “They now have an idea and I just thought this was just a belated April Fool’s joke.