Missouri
Attorney General Files Landmark Lawsuit Against Biden for Colluding with Big Tech. Totally overlooked by the
mainstream press, at the beginning of May 2022, Missouri Attorney General (AG) Eric Schmitt's office filed a landmark lawsuit
against the Biden Administration. Then, just last week, Attorney General Schmitt landed a big blow against Biden by
filing a motion to prohibit the censorship conspiracy immediately. [...] The suit, brought along with the Louisiana
Attorney General's Office, is filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. In the
suit, Missouri Attorney General Schmitt pounds away on the Biden regime for both conspiring with and also compelling Big Tech
social media companies, to censor millions of Americans on their social media accounts through a governmentally created
social media censorship program.
Kamala:
the new grand inquisitor. In short, what cannot be done by revoking the First Amendment will be done by a new
government entity which, unfathomably, says nothing on behalf of straight white men and women. I guess they are rarely
victims. This is the old (last month) "Disinformation Board" reimagined and revivified. Our
achievement-challenged VPOTUS is going to head up a group whose sole job it is to find people who claim to be harmed in some
way. The government will then wield their sword to shut down and maybe imprison anyone who dares bring up the Left's
perverse, deviant, and anti-white racist policies, or an alt-position about masking or vaxxing. The radical Left have
created a new "task force" to fight back against the parents who have risen up en masse on behalf of their children who are
being maleducated and sexualized in government schools.
Good
News! Harris to Head New Biden Disinformation Task Force. The bad news is that the Biden administration's
notorious Disinformation Governance Board, a flagrantly unconstitutional effort to restrict the freedom of speech that was
"paused" in May after an avalanche of criticism, is back (although its Orwellian name is still on ice). The good news is that
heading up Biden's handlers' new foray into authoritarianism is none other than Vice President Kamala Harris. This is
good news because Harris has handled the previous jobs she has been given with spectacular ineptitude. If she stays
true to form this time, she may end up actually strengthening speech protections, rather than destroying them as she has been
tasked to do.
Kamala
Harris is Now Taking on the Big Job of Censoring the Democrats' Critics. Kamala Harris was once rated the most
radical member of the entire Senate. Now, she's taking on the big job of policing the Internet for 'misinformation.'
And by 'misinformation,' that means political opinions that extremely partisan Democrats don't like. [Tweet] Kamala
Harris will be heading up a new internet policy task force, the Biden administration announced on Thursday. Its goals
including "developing programs and policies" to protect "political figures" and journalists from "disinformation," "abuse"
and "harassment."
Dems
want to ban telling the truth. In a virtual Axios event on Thursday, Gina McCarthy, Joe Biden's top climate
official, urged tech companies to suppress truthful information about climate issues: "The tech companies have to stop
allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation," she told Axios' Alexi McCammond at a virtual
event that aired Thursday. "We need the tech companies to really jump in," McCarthy said. "Really jump in" means
to ban, suspend, delete and censor views on climate issues different from those of the Biden administration's extremists,
like McCarthy. ["]McCarthy said that overall, the problem of disinformation has shifted from disputing the
reality of climate change...["] No one has disputed the "reality of climate change." [...] The issue is not
climate change per se, but rather the theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming that is in dispute. On
that issue, the realists are winning out over the alarmists.
It
is time to admit that the American left is malevolent. The Biden administration, the FBI, and the DOJ are
willfully ignoring the Constitution and countless laws regarding the border, medical freedom, election integrity, the
protection of the Supreme Court Justices, and our freedom of speech. They abhor the views and values of conservatives
and mean to squelch them. They call any speech with which they disagree "disinformation." Thus, their campaign
against what they call "the big lie," that the 2020 election was stolen.
Mayorkas
misled under oath about DHS disinfo board, GOP senators charge. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro
Mayorkas has been accused of misleading top Republican senators about the purposes of the controversial Disinformation
Governance Board. Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Josh Hawley argue the board was designed with more power
than the top Biden official admitted during testimony. Mayorkas repeatedly downplayed the power and role of the group
during congressional testimony, telling the Senate Homeland Security Committee last month it was "established with the
explicit goal of ensuring that the protection of free speech, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties is incorporated into
all of the department's disinformation work." He contended that "we're not the truth police" and said the board "does not
have any operational authority or capability."
Whistleblower
said Biden's 'disinformation' board would have acted on what the government determined to be factual, would.
Senior Republicans are keeping up their attacks on the Biden administration's attempts to tackle misinformation, claiming
internal documents show the Department of Homeland Security's disinformation board would have ruled on what was true and what
wasn't across a broad range of issues. Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Josh Hawley on Wednesday [6/8/2022] wrote
to the department demanding more information about how it would have worked. They released a string of internal
documents, provided by a whistleblower, they said showed the Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) would have worked with
social media platforms to enable the removal of user content.
Hawley
and Grassley Receive Evidence from Whistleblower Showing DHS Intent to Weaponize Social Media to Control
Information. Thanks to a DHS whistleblower who has come forward to Senators Josh Hawley and Chuck Grassley, we
are now seeing the direct evidence of how the Fourth Branch of Government, specifically the Dept of Homeland Security, were
planning to take control over public discussion on Big Tech platforms. Previously the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency (CISA) announced a new Dept of Homeland Security priority to combat disinformation on technology platforms
including social media. Many eyebrows were raised as the original CISA announcement appeared to be an open admission
that the U.S. government was going to control information by applying labels, that would align with allies in social media,
who need a legal justification for censorship and content removal. The whistleblower leak confirms exactly that.
This CISA announcement was quickly followed by various government officials and agencies saying it was critical to combat
Russian disinformation, as the events in Ukraine unfolded. In essence, Ukraine was the justification for search engines
like Google, DuckDuckGo, and social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to begin targeting
information and content that did not align with the official U.S. government narrative.
Ill-fated
DHS disinformation board pursued partnership with social-media platforms to censor content. The Department of
Homeland Security's ill-fated disinformation board would have been part of an effort to work with private social-media
platforms to police their content, two senators revealed Wednesday, citing new documents provided to them by a
whistleblower. The documents described the issues that led DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to want to create the
board. Among them were such heated topics as debates over the coronavirus pandemic and efficacy of vaccines, and what
Homeland Security described as "conspiracy theories about the validity and security of elections." The documents also
suggested the board would play the role of policy cop at Homeland Security, with input on disinformation budgets and a role
in how the department engages with "private sector stakeholders."
The
Biden Regime Claimed That Their 'Disinformation Board' Was Just For Advisory Purposes; Newly Released Documents Paint A
Darker Picture. The Biden regime's now-defunct 'disinformation board' was supposed to serve an advisory role,
according to DHS officials. The board was disbanded after the person who was supposed to lead it, Nina Jankowicz, was
harshly criticized for statements on social media and promoting disinformation of her own, including the discredited
Russiagate scandal. The Board also came under fire by Republican politicians and the general public for bearing an
eerie resemblance to the 'Ministry of Truth' in George Orwell's "1984". Newly released documents indicate that those
accusations were correct.
Grassley,
Hawley demand details on Disinfo Board after whistleblower revelations. The Associated Press reported yesterday
that GOP senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Josh Hawley (Missouri) are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security
provide them with specifics on how it planned to coordinate its Disinformation Governance Board with social media companies
to remove user content after a whistleblower provided them with key documents about the board. [...] The public learned about
the Disinformation Governance Board when Mayorkas testified about its existence in April. Observers were troubled by
the appointment of Nina Jankowicz as the head of the board. Jankowicz has an abominable relationship with the
truth. Back in 2020, she dismissed news about Hunter Biden's infamous laptop as "Russian disinformation." She was an
advocate of the discredited Steele dossier, funded by the Clinton campaign, that was the source of the Russian Collusion
hoax. She is also a blatant partisan with a history of embracing and spreading disinformation to undermine political
opponents. Observers were also concerned that Mayorkas wasn't explicit about the powers of the Disinformation
Governance Board. Was the board meant to be a supervisory body that would order social media firms to add disclaimers
or warnings about "disinformation" and deplatform frequent peddlers of "disinformation"? Was the board empowered to act on
the ground and direct law enforcement to conduct arrests and searches? Was the board authorized to initiate legal
proceedings?
Former
Obama Adviser Lets Cat out of the Bag on What Dems Want to Do to Control Us. Former White House Communications
Director for the Obama administration Dan Pfeiffer appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday [6/6/2022] and what he said was
revealing, threatening, and great — all at the same time. Pfeiffer claimed that the people who listen to
"right-wing media" were "more likely to believe conspiracy theories about vaccines, conspiracy theories about elections.
[...] He put out what was the constant theme of the segment — attacking Facebook for purveying "news," which Mika
laughingly said was "not where you get news." Because how dare you not listen to mainstream outlets like hers? That
was quietly hilarious, when you think about all the conspiracy theories that Democrats and MSNBC have pushed over the last few
years, with Russia collusion, paid for and spread by the DNC, with the Clinton campaign top of the list. People on the
left believe all kinds of crazy things about pee tapes and Ginni Thomas (Justice Clarence Thomas' wife) trying to "overthrow"
the government (big scoop: she did no such thing) because of the crazy pushed by liberal mainstream media. Meanwhile,
while there's a lot from the mainstream against conspiracy theories on the right, there's not so much targeted at deflating
the conspiracy theories that flourish on the left.
Unchecked
by Courts, Government Censorship of Social Media Platforms Will Prove Fatal to Free Speech. The Biden
administration's increasingly aggressive efforts to combat so-called misinformation, along with the prospective acquisition
of Twitter by free speech advocate Elon Musk, have sparked a national debate about what role, if any, the government should
play in censoring social media. While some have applauded the administration's campaign to police online
"misinformation" about COVID-19 and other subjects, including through its recent creation of a "Disinformation Governance
Board" within the Department of Homeland Security, others have harshly criticized the notion that the government should be
the arbiter of truth. As these critics have observed, many views derided as COVID-19 "misinformation" in 2020 or
2021 — for instance, that the virus originated in a lab and that community masking appears to be relatively
ineffective — are now gaining traction in mainstream circles.
One Way Government.
As the Biden administration attempted to create its own Ministry of Truth with the Disinformation Governance Board this
month, it was common to hear conservatives and Republicans saying things like "just wait until President Trump or President
DeSantis is the one appointing the head of that agency, then you'll be sorry." [...] The fear of a weapon in the hands of the
enemy is supposed to govern the desire to wield it yourself. Self-preservation limits the aspirations of the country's
ruling class. This check and balance that the mechanism of democracy is meant to provide may have functioned at some
point in the country's past, but that's not how the United States government actually operates today. The majority of
our government's day-to-day decisions are not made by the legislature or even the President. The elected officeholder
is not even the one regularly exercising discretion. Today, those decisions are handled by the technocracy, which is
safely tucked away in our government agencies, i.e. the permanent bureaucracy that has come to be known as the deep state.
Biden
Disinfo Board Advisor Once Hinted Discouraging 'Conflicting Views' Was Bad. An advisor for the Biden
administration's Ministry of Truth once suggested that discouraging differences in opinion at the government level was a bad
thing. Irony abounds! Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) advisor Michael Chertoff signed a letter in 2016
criticizing then-presidential candidate Donald Trump for apparently discouraging "conflicting views." Signers of the
letter said regarding a potential Trump presidency: "In our experience, a President must be willing to listen to his
advisors and department heads; must encourage consideration of conflicting views; and must acknowledge errors and learn from them."
Biden's
Disinformation Board may be 'paused,' but that's a sketchy claim. [Scroll down] The Biden
administration's record on honoring democratic values (by respecting political opponents) hasn't exactly been stellar.
The protesters of January 6 are being subjected to draconian punishment. The partisan January 6 Select Committee's sole
function is to harass and intimidate political opponents. Parents concerned about their children being indoctrinated
with Critical Race Theory were branded as domestic terrorists. Biden branded the "MAGA crowd" as "the most extreme
political organization that's existed in recent American history." Government works for the citizen. It is a
citizen's function to sit in judgment of the government, not the other way around. When the government assumes that
role and places the citizen under the microscope, it ceases to be democratic. There were also several open questions
about the Board. The obvious question was how it was going to define "disinformation." There were questions and
concerns about the authority the board would have and whether it would be constitutional. Would it be just within the
realms of social media platforms, or would they collaborate with law enforcement to conduct arrests? Even their most
ardent fans of the Democrats — i.e., the mainstream media found it hard to defend the disinformation board.
A Cabinency
of Dunces. [Scroll down] But one area of agreement is the sheer craziness of Biden's cabinet
appointments, who have translated his incoherent ideology into catastrophic governance. Secretary of Homeland Security
Alejandro Mayorkas has essentially nullified federal immigration law. Over 2 million foreign nationals have illegally
crossed the southern border without audit — and without COVID vaccinations and tests during a pandemic.
Mayorkas either cannot or will not follow federal law. But he did create a new Disinformation Governance Board.
To head his new Orwellian Ministry of Truth, he appointed Nina Jankowicz — an arch disinformationist who helped
peddle the Russian collusion, Steele dossier, and Alfa Bank hoaxes. While Jankowicz's adolescent videos and past tweets
finally forced her resignation, Mayorkas promises his board will carry on.
Biden
Is Already Plotting To Restart His 'Disinformation Board'. [A]ll the huzzahs about the demise of the Biden
administration's Orwellian "Disinformation Governance Board" are premature. [...] For starters, team Biden said it would only
put a "pause" on the board in the wake of a furious backlash from the public and revelations that the woman chosen to head it
had herself peddled disinformation on numerous occasions. During this 75-day "pause," the Homeland Security Advisory
Council will review the board and make "recommendations on how the department can garner public trust surrounding its
disinformation efforts." (Note statement says "how" not "if.") Meanwhile, a Department of Homeland Security official
said "the Department's critical work across several administrations to address disinformation that threatens the security of
our country will continue." The White House has also been completely unapologetic about creating the board, calling
criticism of it "smears leveled by bad-faith, right-wing actors."
Caitlin
Johnstone: They Fear Information, Not Disinformation. We're in the final countdown to British Home
Secretary Priti Patel's decision on the fate of Julian Assange, with the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to the United
States due to be approved or rejected by the end of the month. Joe Lauria has an article out with Consortium
News on the various pressures that Patel is facing from both sides of this history-making issue at this crucial
time. And I can't stop thinking, as this situation comes to a boil, about how absurd it is that the U.S. empire is
working to set a precedent that essentially outlaws information-sharing that the U.S. doesn't like at the same time Western
news media are full of hand-wringing headlines about the dangerous threat of "disinformation." Fairness and Accuracy In
Reporting (FAIR) has an article "'Disinformation' Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts" about the way the mass
media have been spinning that label to mean not merely the knowing distribution of false information but also of information
that is true but inconvenient to imperial narrative-weaving.
Homeland
Security's Rebooted Disinformation Plan Is No Better Than the First. Constitutionalists, free-speech lovers,
and sane people alike cheered upon hearing the announcements that the Department of Homeland Security was disbanding its
nascent Disinformation Governance Board and the board's designated head, Nina Jankowicz, was resigning. The reasons why
are obvious: The federal government has no business determining what is truth, it is nowhere near the mission of
Homeland Security, and Jankowicz had a consistently wrong record of identifying "disinformation." But Americans should
take no comfort in the fact that the Biden administration's efforts to censor information from within DHS and elsewhere will
end. In fact, the administration has announced that former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former U.S.
Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick will take the baton from Jankowicz and continue down the disinformation track.
This plan is no better than the first one.
The
'Mary Poppins of Disinformation' Inadvertently Spills the Truth About What the Board Was Going to Do. Nina
Jankowicz, the self-proclaimed "Mary Poppins of Disinformation" who was up until recently supposed to become the chief of Joe
Biden's Orwellian and ominous Disinformation Governance Board, can't seem to stop herself from stepping on rakes. She
has complained, now that the Board has been "paused," that the Board itself was a victim of "disinformation," which casts
into question how effective it could possibly have ever been, if Jankowicz couldn't even manage to counter false statements
about what it was supposed to be doing. On Monday, she made matters even worse by remarking off-handedly that the Board
was meant to do something that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had said it would not be doing:
countering "disinformation" not just from foreign sources, but from Americans.
Homeland
Security Pick To Clean Up 'Disinfo Board' Pushed Disinfo Himself. The Biden administration is calling in backup
to bail out its Disinformation Governance Board just days after a disastrous launch. Their ringer is a former
government official who blamed Russia for the Hunter Biden laptop story. Department of Homeland Security chief
Alejandro Mayorkas this week tapped former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff to advise the board. Its executive director,
Nina Jankowicz, had come under fire after she asserted the release of Biden's emails was a "Russian influence op." Chertoff
has made similar claims, arguing after the 2020 election that "human intelligence sources" — referring to Russian
spies — likely obtained emails from Hunter Biden's computer. Chertoff dismissed as "preposterous" the claim
that the emails were recovered after Biden abandoned his laptop at a computer repair shop. Chertoff's appointment could
signal more trouble for the board, which has come under intense scrutiny from Republicans.
The
Typhoid Mary of Disinformation. The most blatant and shameless liars from the first term of the Bush/Cheney
administration have, revealingly, enjoyed great success in media and journalism. That is because serial deceit is not a
liability for a thriving career in corporate journalism but rather a vital asset — provided that the lies are in
service of ruling class policies. Tawdry propagandists who helped drive post-9/11 America into a bottomless pit of lies
and self-destruction have become the most highly-paid and beloved stars of liberal media.
Obama
Supercharged the Left's Embrace of Censorship. It seems every day some notable Democrat is pushing for
censorship. After the horrific Buffalo mass murder on May 14, New York Governor Hochul threatened social media
companies for not purging "hate speech," that dangerously elusive term that has the potential to cover anything Democrats
don't like. Former New York mayor Bill de Blasio demanded that Congress pass legislation to "reign in the spread of
hate" on the Internet. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had the audacity to send a formal letter to Fox News
ordering the network to "immediately cease the reckless amplification" of ideas he blamed for the Buffalo shooting.
MSNBC's Carl Cameron insisted that "it's time to actually start doing things" to control speech, such as "maybe taking some
names and putting people in jail." And all of these attacks on free speech are occurring while President Biden is flirting
with the creation of a "Ministry of Truth" and the Democratic National Committee is "working with" Big Tech to "enforce a
comprehensive political misinformation policy."
Disinformation
Board Paused, 'Mary Poppins' Director Out, but Biden Suppression of Free Speech Continues. After only a few
weeks, the unconstitutional, correctly criticized federal Disinformation Governance Board has been "paused" and "Minister of
Truth" Nina Jankowicz has resigned. It is appropriate to celebrate, but amid statements from the White House saying the
"work is going to continue," we should beware that some version of the board will quietly pop up again in the Department of
Homeland Security and other agencies. And we should be ready to expose the suppression of free speech wherever it
continues. As many have pointed out, this effort was entirely unconstitutional from the start and violated the First
Amendment. The board even opened President Joe Biden and Jankowicz up to robust lawsuits from two states. The
Constitution clearly states that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." The executive branch
cannot abridge free speech either, nor can the federal government collude with Big Tech to censor free speech, as they are
wont to do.
Biden's
'disinformation board' is paused after just three weeks following outrage over its head Nina Jankowicz pushing debunked
Russian collusion claims. The controversial head of the Department of Homeland Security's disinformation board
resigned on Wednesday following weeks of attacks on her appointment and as it emerged that the panel was being 'paused' only
three weeks after it was set up. The board was intended to combat misinformation but critics quickly homed in on the
role of its chief, Nina Jankowicz, and her history fighting disinformation and extremism. In particular, they
questioned her expertise after it emerged she had dismissed the 2020 discovery of Hunter Biden's laptop as being a 'Trump
campaign product.'
Disinformation
Czar Resigns, Board On 'Pause' Following Criticism She Spread Disinformation. The Department of Homeland
Security put a "pause" Monday on its disinformation board after the truth czar, who resigned Wednesday [5/18/2022], came
under fire for spreading disinformation herself, The Washington Post reported. DHS shut the board down Monday and Nina
Jankowicz, who was tapped to lead the department, drafted a resignation letter Tuesday, according to The Washington
Post. Jankowicz was reportedly pulled into a meeting late Tuesday night, however, with officials giving her the chance
to stay on as the department determines whether to move forward with the highly polarized board. Jankowicz formally
resigned Wednesday, according to The Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz.
Executive
Director of Biden's Ministry of Truth Resigns. After a rough three weeks in which conservatives landed
significant hits on and exposed major flaws with the Department of Homeland Security's "Disinformation Governance Board," the
much-mocked Ministry of Truth has been "paused" and Disinfo Czar Nina Jankowicz is looking to the exits. This news,
comes from a new "scoop" reported by none other than The Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz. Most of permanent-victim
Lorenz's post is the same pablum we've seen from the mainstream media about how extremely qualified Jankowicz is and how
critical the threat of so-called disinformation is to democracy — all without mentioning that Jankowicz has been a
leading voice pushing debunked narratives and outright false information.
Wicked
witch of the woke Nina Jankowicz resigns as Disinformation Governance Board is put on 'pause'. Just when I
thought the Biden administration was beyond shame, it (at least temporarily) pulled the plug on the Disinformation Governance
Board, causing the buffoonish Nina Jankowicz to resign. I can't recall a speedier and more embarrassing belly flop of a
government initiative than the announcement of this transparently Orwellian state organ, headed by a cringeworthy
exhibitionist besotted with her own musical talent and purported wisdom.
The Editor says...
I wonder who will be the next person to hire Nina Jankowicz.
Biden
Regime Hires Michael Chertoff to Lead Disinformation Board. The Biden regime announced on Wednesday they hired
Michael Chertoff, another Hunter Biden laptop truther to lead the government's Disinformation Board. Chertoff has
worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling. Chertoff is the co-author of the Patriot Act that allowed the federal
government to spy on its citizens. Michael Chertoff was a board member of a website Alliance for Securing Democracy
that claimed it was tracking Russian disinformation during the Trump years. Its real purpose is to smear websites
supportive of Donald Trump and his accomplishments as Russian propaganda. In this venture, Chertoff and his colleagues
labeled The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart as top Russia disinformation websites because we did not believe the media lies on
the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
The
Clownish Disinfo Czar Got The Boot, But Biden's 'Ministry Of Truth' Hired Monster Replacements. The Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) hired the co-author of the PATRIOT Act, arguably the harshest crackdown on civil liberties in
modern American history, and an official under former President Bill Clinton to head the Disinformation Governance Board
during its "pause." The DHS shut the board down Monday after just several weeks and its head, Nina Jankowicz, wrote a
resignation letter Tuesday, according to The Washington Post. Jankowicz was scrutinized for pushing disinformation
about Hunter Biden's laptop and the now-discredited Steele Dossier, which Daniel Hoffman, a former CIA officer, said was
possibly "part of a Russian espionage disinformation plot." She also called Republicans who criticize critical race theory
(CRT) "disinformers." Videos of her singing as the "Mary Poppins of disinformation," "[...]" and satirical, sexualized
renditions of Harry Potter themes have also raised eyebrows. The department announced Wednesday former DHS Secretary
Michael Chertoff and former U.S. Deputy Secretary General Jamie Gorelick under Clinton "will lead a thorough review and
assessment" of the board that was "grossly and intentionally mischaracterized."
DHS
Says [the] Disinformation Board [is] Being 'Paused' Due to Harassment of Its Chief Enforcer. Is there hope for freedom of
speech in America after all, despite all of the Left's efforts to destroy it? Maybe: the Washington Post
announced Wednesday [5/18/2022] that "just three weeks after its announcement, the Disinformation Governance Board is being
'paused,' according to multiple employees at DHS, capping a back-and-forth week of decisions that changed during the course
of reporting of this story." [...] However, there are plenty of enemies of the First Amendment within the DHS, and so after
the Board was killed, it became undead: [...]
Cowardly
Dems Can No Longer Defend Their Idiotic 'Disinformation' Czar; Decide To Cancel Her Senate Hearing. Democrats'
decision to appoint a 'Disinformation Czar' to work in the Department of Homeland Security has generated significant
controversy since the decision was made last month. Many people have taken to calling the newly created disinformation
board the 'Ministry of Truth', the name given to a propaganda ministry in George Orwell's book '1984'. If the creation of
the new board wasn't controversial enough, the Disinformation Czar, Nina Jankowicz, has landed herself in hot water for
incendiary political comments she made prior to her appointment. Last week, she said that verified Twitter users such
as herself should be able to edit other users' Tweets so that they can add context to them.
Did
the Disinformation Governance Board originate in a D.C. think tank? The Department of Homeland Security's new
and controversial Disinformation Governance Board may have originated from an under-the-radar think tank report that called
on the department to change its focus by prioritizing "nonmilitary threats," such as white supremacism and
disinformation. The report, titled "Future of DHS Project: Key Findings and Recommendations," was published in
September 2020 by the Atlantic Council, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and committed to a mission of "shaping the
global future together." Thomas Warrick and Caitlin Durkovich, the report's authors, both served in the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) but left their posts during the Trump administration. Durkovich currently serves on the White
House National Security Council.
Former
Fox News reporter wants Biden to start putting people in jail for 'misinformation'. A face you're surely to
recognize, former Fox News reporter Carl Cameron, was on MSNBC bashing Fox News and Republicans as purveyors of
misinformation today in the aftermath of the massacre in Buffalo. Not only did Cameron accuse Republicans of being the
purveyors of misinformation, essentially blaming them and Fox News for the shooting, but he suggested that it's time for
Biden to start putting them in jail for it.
Biden
Tries Controlling (Dis)Information. The goal of tyrants, dictators, and oppressive governments is to gain power
and then stay in power. They largely do this by controlling information — the information available and who
has access to it. Information is power, and tyrants use information to gain power. [...] State-sponsored media in
countries like the Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Turkey, and Iran insured the people heard only what the government
allowed. All other information was labeled "disinformation" and was banned. Facts that made the government look
bad were banned as dangerous misinformation, were not allowed to be disseminated, and became a crime to share. [...] Leftists
in America have long been enthralled with communists, tyrants, and dictators; largely because those regimes control
information, and thus control the people.
Biden's
"Minster of Truth" Nina Jankowicz Participated in Secret NATO-Funded Cabal to Subvert Western Democracies Using
Disinformation as Cover. As Revolver and others have covered, Nina "Moaning Myrtle" Jankowicz is a joke.
The Harry Potter superfan-turned-propagandrix is now the Biden Administration's chosen head for the "Disinformation
Governance Board." Among many other embarrassing videos in circulation is the following clip of Nina Jankowicz bizarrely and
emphatically dismissing the notion of the so-called "deep state." [Video clip] [...] Whatever one thinks of the
precise term "deep state," Nina badly wants everyone to dismiss the very concept of secret groups operating within
Washington. She works "with and around" them after all, and she says such a cabal or network of cabals does not
exist. In fact, Nina does know the truth, and it's the opposite of what she claims above. Nina's name appeared in
one of the most explosive and aggressively censored national security leaks of the century. The leak in question
exposed the "Integrity Initiative," a dark government-funded NGO that appears to have engaged in political meddling and
covert influence operations in Western countries under the guise of fighting "disinformation."
Meet
the Head of Biden's New "Disinformation Governing Board". Late last month, the Joe Biden administration
publicly confirmed that a "Disinformation Governing Board" working group had been created within the Department of Homeland
Security. The news prompted a flood of concern about the impact of such an Orwellian organ on America. But
there's no need to engage in hypotheticals to understand the dangers. One has to only consider the past of Nina
Jankowicz, the head of the new disinformation board. Jankowicz's experience as a disinformation warrior includes her
work with StopFake, a US government-funded "anti-disinformation" organization founded in March 2014 and lauded as a model of
how to combat Kremlin lies. Four years later, StopFake began aggressively whitewashing two Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups
with a long track record of violence, including war crimes. Today, StopFake is an official Facebook fact-checking
partner, which gives it the power to censor news, while Jankowicz is America's disinformation czar.
This sounds like disinformation: White
House falsely claims 'no vaccine' was available when Biden took office. The official White House Twitter
account posted false COVID-19 information Thursday [5/12/2022], wrongly claiming there was "no vaccine available" when
President Biden took office in January 2021. "When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was
no vaccine available," the verified account tweeted to its 7 million followers Thursday. "In the last 15 months,
the economy has created 8.3 [million] jobs and the unemployment rate stands at 3.6% — the fastest decline in
unemployment to start a President's term ever recorded," the tweet concluded. But eagle-eyed critics were quick to
point out that the 79-year-old Biden actually received his first dose of the vaccine on December 2020 — a month
before he moved in at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Meet
the Head of Biden's New "Disinformation Governing Board". Late last month, the Joe Biden administration
publicly confirmed that a "Disinformation Governing Board" working group had been created within the Department of Homeland
Security. The news prompted a flood of concern about the impact of such an Orwellian organ on America. But
there's no need to engage in hypotheticals to understand the dangers. One has to only consider the past of Nina
Jankowicz, the head of the new disinformation board. Jankowicz's experience as a disinformation warrior includes her
work with StopFake, a US government-funded "anti-disinformation" organization founded in March 2014 and lauded as a model of
how to combat Kremlin lies. Four years later, StopFake began aggressively whitewashing two Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups
with a long track record of violence, including war crimes.
Fauci,
Biden, Psaki Sued in Major Big Tech Collusion Lawsuit! Things continue to get worse for the apparatchiks of
the ruling regime: now, in addition to losing the abortion battle and much of the mask battle in the courts at the same time
that Elon Musk is taking a hammer to the censorship regime by buying Twitter, Fauci and Biden just got rocked by a massive
lawsuit. That lawsuit, filed last Thursday by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General
Jeff Landry, names Biden, Psaki, Dr. Fauci, and Nina Jankowicz (the Disinformation Board woman) as defendants and
accuses them of colluding with Big Tech to crush certain messages on platforms like Facebook and YouTube under the guise of
fighting "misinformation".
Head
of Biden's 'Ministry of Truth' Previously Compared Free Speech to "Fairy Dust". The head of what has been
dubbed the Biden administration's 'Ministry of Truth' previously compared free speech to "fairy dust" during testimony about
social media censorship in front of the UK Parliament. [...] Nina Jankowicz, recently appointed DHS 'disinformation czar,'
made the comments while providing oral evidence regarding the implementation of the UK's controversial Online Safety Bill,
which will ban legal content which has "the potential to cause harm." After agreeing that the government should set
minimum speech standards which ban "misogyny," Jankowicz blasted alternative social media platforms for supporting "freedom
of expression and fairy dust." She also said that government-connected communications regulators such as Ofcom should
"be able to establish the minimum standards that would be applied to all platforms and incur fines."
Power-Drunk
Disinfo Czar Wants to Control People's Tweets. Joe Biden's new disinformation czar, Nina Jankowicz, wallowing
in the authoritarian power that the role has given her, has proclaimed that she wants "verified" people to edit the Twitter
posts of other people. As part of a Zoom call with fellow leftists, Jankowicz explained how she wants Twitter to
operate similar to Wikipedia, which allows anyone to edit and add information about a topic — but only if they
have been verified, as she has been, reported Summit News. "I am eligible for it because I am verified," she explained
about her sainted status on Wiki and how, presumably, it would translate to other social media under her directives.
Clueless,
pharma-infested FDA now says independent media is "leading cause of death in US". The leading cause of death in
the United States today is not heart disease but rather "independent media," according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) chief Dr. Robert Cardiff. A Joe Biden appointee, Califf claimed during a recent appearance on CNN that
independent media outlets must be purged from existence immediately if there is to be any hope of ending the scourge of death
throughout the country. Only corporate-controlled, government-approved fake news outlets like CNN should be allowed to
exist and spread information online, Califf maintains. Allowing free speech, he says, will result in "deadly
misinformation" spreading and influencing people's health decisions.
At
Last We're Getting Some (Chilling) Hints About What the Disinformation Chief Wants to Do. Old Joe Biden's
handlers haven't been able to give us a clear answer about what the Department of Homeland Security's ominous new
Disinformation Governance Board is actually going to do. But now its censorship power-drunk chief, Nina Jankowicz, has
provided a detailed description of an authority she wants to have in order to fight this alleged disinformation, and it's
downright chilling. So far, the powers behind the Disinformation Board haven't been able to get their stories straight
about exactly what "disinformation" the Board would supposedly combat. When Politico first revealed the existence of
the Board, it said it would be "countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular
migration and Russia." Then DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas went further, saying it would "combat this threat not only to
election security, but to our homeland security." Jen Psaki then suggested that it would be dealing with supposed
disinformation about "COVID for example, and also elections and eligibility." Under fire over this brazen assault on the
First Amendment, Mayorkas claimed that the Board would not be dealing with the statements of American citizens at all.
Conservatives
question true motives of Biden's DHS disinformation board. Conservatives who oppose the controversial
Disinformation Governance Board doubt the Biden administration's claims that it is narrowly focused on foreign threats and
not censorship, saying the board would then be housed by a different federal agency. The Biden administration says the
Department of Homeland Security's new disinformation board is focused on noncontroversial foreign threats that both parties
agree should be combated, but conservatives are fiercely skeptical. Republicans see the board as a vessel for the
government to determine what information is considered true and false and thereby censor conservative speech. Some top
House Republicans are even eager to threaten a government shutdown to nix the board if necessary.
Disinformation
Chief Jankowicz Defended Hunter's Corrupt Burisma Deals. President Biden's DHS disinformation chief Nina
Jankowicz defended Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings with Burisma Holdings during a July 2020 book interview —
calling the Biden scion, known for crack addiction and selling influence, a "foreign expert." Hunter sat on the board of
the Ukrainian Burisma Holdings company from 2014 to 2019, while Joe Biden was vice president and campaigned for president
during the 2020 election cycle. Hunter was compensated $83,000 per month as a board director, which raises questions if
Hunter was selling influence to his father in the Obama administration. Joe Biden and his staff have denied at least
seven times that Biden has been involved in his son's dealings. But evidence shows Joe Biden was involved in Hunter's
business affairs at least eleven times.
American
Matrix: Biden's Disinformation Governance Board. The Biden administration's announcement of creating a
new 'Disinformation Governance Board' reveals desperation in the face of Americans waking up to overwhelming evidence of
coverup and deceit by mainstream and social media on life and death matters. First, people are coming to realize the
truth behind the so-called COVID-19 pandemic, with all the attendant life-threatening bad advice and loss of Constitutional
freedoms and rights that took place. Second, people are now seeing documentary proof of undeniable evidence of
industrial-scale vote fraud that drove an illegitimate result in the November 2020 elections. Many have drawn parallels
between Biden's 'Disinformation Governance Board' and George Orwell's 'Ministry of Truth,' arguing that it's a threat to
First Amendment free speech. But wait. Haven't we already been living in the matrix of an Orwellian world, with
freedom of speech in America hanging by a thread even before this crazy Disinformation Governance Board was hatched?
Ministry
of Misinformation: Freedom is Slavery! Since Elon Musk, who I think is one strange person, started
buying Twitter stock, and overnight became the largest stock holder of the company, the media world went nuts. When he
bought it, the media world, leftists, Democrats, government bureaucrats, RINO's, pundits and lunatic Hollywood Stars, went
apoplectic. They're outraged that "an independent-thinking billionaire like Elon Musk could ever get control of a media
outlet". Amazing, since not one of them were outraged at leftist billionaires like "Michael Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg,
Jeff Bezos, and the Google billionaires running media outlets:
• CEO Jeff Bezos reinvented the failing, Washington Post he bought for $250 million.
• CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, ABC, NBC, and CBS continually collude on what to report
and how to report. They all suppressed the true story about Hunter Biden's laptop because they were campaigning for his dad.
• They intentionally interfered in the election.
• They all intentionally spread the lies about Russian collusion as they colluded with the Democrats.
• They all suppress anyone who dared disagree with Dr. Anthony Fauci and the CDC.
20 States Threaten
Legal Action Over the Ministry of Truth. The attorneys general of 20 states have threatened legal action
against the US government unless they disband the newly formed Disinformation Governance Board. We shared with you
recently an article about the people behind the DGB, who have a history of trying to curb dissenting speech by calling it
"disinformation." [...] In a letter addressed to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Attorney General of Virginia, Jason
Miyares, spoke for the AGs of 19 other states and shared his concerns about the overreach.
5
Signals Of Government Disinformationists. The lies of politicians and federal agency bureaucrats are
particularly dangerous because we want to believe these groups. Few want to accept the notion our fabled FBI, DOJ, or
HHS are corrupt [or] dishonest. Pundits, often from government, blame social media and extremist groups for spreading
falsehoods. But we expect outlets like Slate, the Daily Beast, or The Blaze, and Newsmax to be biased. When we
watch them, we know we what we are getting. Twitter personalities, no matter how many followers they gain, will never
hold the clout of the federal government. Because of its outsized reach through its agencies, NGO's, big tech,
association publications, paid "fact-checkers", and the legacy media, government is the most effective disseminator of
disinformation and the greatest threat to our safety and security.
More
Evidence the Biden Administration Does Not Care About Misinformation. The Biden administration has once again
shown that it does not truly care about misinformation. While Democrats and their comrades in the activist media have
railed against false narratives — except for the ones they promote — it has become clear that their
fixation on misinformation is nothing more than a cover for their true agenda: Suppressing voices they don't
like. Last week, the White House announced it was enlisting Karine Jean-Pierre to replace press secretary Jen Psaki
after she resigns on May 13th. It was touted as a historic moment. The nation would finally have its first black
homosexual official tasked with lying to the public about the many failings of the president. The announcement came
about a week after it was revealed that the administration had created a Disinformation Governance Board ostensibly to
counter false information coming from foreign actors like Russia and Mexican cartels.
Biden
FDA Chief Insists "Misinformation" is Impacting Life Expectancy in the US. So much for COVID, abortions,
cancer, heart attacks, violent crime, or fentanyl killing off people like the plague. They all need to move
aside. There's a new threat that has been identified by the 'experts.' Now, the Biden regime says that online
"misinformation" — a/k/a the exercising of free speech rights — is impacting life expectancy in the
United States, according to Biden's FDA chief Robert Califf. And no, he isn't talking about all of the "safe and
effective" propaganda that has been force-fed to populations around the globe by elitist tyrants who are hellbent on jabbing
them full of experimental mRNA treatments — actually, it's quite the opposite.
Official
Co-Leading Biden Disinfo Board Worked for George Soros. A member of President Joe Biden's Orwellian
Disinformation Governance Board has close ties to liberal billionaire activist George Soros. Disinformation Governance
Board leader Jennifer Daskal has at least three connections to Soros. Daskal previously served as an Open Society
Institute fellow "working on issues related to privacy and law enforcement access to data across borders." Daskal also worked
as senior counterterrorism counsel for the anti-Semitic Human Rights Watch. HRW received at least $32,106,746 from
Soros between 2000 and 2014 alone. Daskal was also founding editor of the Just Security blog. Soros' Open Society
Foundations gave $675,000 to Just Security between 2017 and 2019. Daskal's involvement with the censorship board fits
right in with the Soros agenda. Soros has been involved in funding a litany of so-called fact-checking operations,
making the revelation of Daskal's Soros-tie par for the course.
This sounds like disinformation: NPR's
Nina Totenberg: 'Leading theory' is conservative clerk leaked abortion opinion. One of the Supreme Court's
longtime reporters said the "leading theory" is that a conservative clerk leaked the majority draft opinion indicating the
high court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. Nina Totenberg, a legal affairs correspondent for NPR,
said the only theory that makes sense is that the leak came from someone who "was afraid that this majority might not hold."
Biden's
New Press Secretary Turns out to Be a Big Fan of Conspiracy Theories. Remember when denying the legitimacy of
any election was not only disqualifying but also got you kicked off Jake Tapper's low-rated CNN show? I wonder if that
rule will hold for Karine Jean-Pierre, who is set to take over as Joe Biden's press secretary on May 13th. I think we
all know the answer to that. Apparently, Jean-Pierre has a colorful history on social media, and now some of her old
tweets are painting a far different picture than the one she's tried to present since joining the White House. Far from
the level-headed, straight shooter that she wants people to believe she is, Jean-Pierre is apparently a conspiratorial lunatic.
This sounds like disinformation: Biden's
new WH press secretary claimed Trump, GA Gov. Kemp 'stole' elections. President Biden's new White House
press secretary has previously claimed the 2016 presidential election was "stolen" from Hillary Clinton and that Georgia
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp "stole" the 2018 gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams. "Stolen emails, stolen
drone, stolen election .....welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump," Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted after former President
Donald Trump's 2016 presidential win, repeating Clinton's claims that Trump was illegitimately elected. "Reminder:
Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams," Jean-Pierre tweeted on April 2, 2020,
reacting to a news story about Kemp saying he only just learned that asymptomatic people can spread COVID-19.
Biden
FEC pick claimed Georgia voting machines 'switched' votes from Abrams to Kemp in 2018. President Biden's recent
nominee to serve on the Federal Election Commission represented a Stacey Abrams-backed nonprofit in a lawsuit that made
several unproven allegations of voter suppression. Nominee Dara Lindenbaum also signed on to court papers alleging
voting machines "switched" votes during the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race. The Senate Rules and Administration
Committee held a confirmation hearing for Lindenbaum, a lawyer with the Washington firm of Sandler, Reiff, Lamb, Rosenstein &
Birkenstock, to be a commissioner on the FEC. Days later, the Georgia trial for Fair Fight Action and Care in Action
v. Raffensperger began in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. Lindenbaum's name appears as the third signature on the
original complaint in the lawsuit alleging voter suppression in the race that saw then-Republican Secretary of State Brian
Kemp defeat Abrams by 55,000 votes statewide in the governor's race.
Biden's
Disinformation Board is a Gift to Republicans. If you worked really hard, you might be able to come up with an
idea as unappealing as a government disinformation board. Voters already distrust the government and are especially
concerned about its excessive intrusion and unchecked regulatory power. If you worked even harder, you might find as
bad a person to lead it as Nina Jankowicz, a self-styled "disinformation expert" whose real specialty seems to be spreading
disinformation to support her left-wing views. If you tried hard to justify this mess, you might come up with a
defender as ineffective as Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security. The secretary, already in deep
trouble because of the porous southern border, faced a hostile Senate hearing and admitted he knew nothing about
Ms. Jankowicz's dismal history of ideological fulminations and partisan statements. He refused to say whose bright
idea it was to hire her — only that he was clueless about her background.
Biden's
new 'Disinformation' czar pushed debunked Russia collusion claims from Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. The
head of President Joe Biden's new Disinformation Governance Board has a history of pushing now-debunked claims that there are
ties between Russia and Donald Trump, old and recently resurfaced tweets reveal. Nina Jankowicz promoted several claims
from Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign on Twitter, including allegations that are now being looked into by special
counsel John Durham.
175
House Republicans want answers on DHS disinfo board and chief. At least 175 House Republicans are demanding
answers from Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about his department's new Disinformation Governance Board as
he struggles to defend the group's creation and the choice of Nina Jankowicz as its first director. Jankowicz, a
disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, will be the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security's new
anti-disinformation effort. She has a history of either labeling claims as disinformation that were later found to have
credibility or giving credence to assertions that were later discredited, including those related to Hunter Biden,
Christopher Steele, Iranian election meddling, the Wuhan, China, lab leak hypothesis, and more. The House Republicans
told Mayorkas in a Thursday letter they are "concerned" about Jankowicz's appointment to head the board, in part because she
has "on several occasions, displayed questionable judgment on matters of disinformation and freedom of speech." The
letter was organized by Rep. Scott Franklin (R-FL).
Biden
DOJ sets up a new 'Office of Environmental Justice' — headed by another fanatic. As if we didn't
need yet another government agency in this age of behemoth federal spending, the Biden administration has saddled the U.S.
with a new one, the Office of Environmental Justice. The $1.4 million monstrosity will be buried within the U.S.
Department of Justice under the authority of U.S. associate attorney general, Vanita Gupta, who set up the new
bureaucracy-enforcer arm. It will be headed by one Cynthia M. Ferguson, whose title is acting director. And you
can bet it's going to be a problem. [...] We already know that activist groups have conspired with the Environmental
Protection Agency for millions in payouts as well as the 'right' to write regulations themselves in exchange for not
protesting the agency. We saw the details of that scandal in the late Obama years, after President Trump's officials
came to power and put a stop to it.
Bill Barr Throws
Cold Water On Biden's 'Disinformation' Board And Its 'Radical' Head. Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr
denounced the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) new Disinformation Governance Board, characterizing its leader as an
unqualified "radical." "I don't think that it's the government's function to set up a panel on disinformation," Barr
told the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) about the board. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the
disinformation board on April 27. The board's purpose is to address disinformation and misinformation against minority
communities, according to the secretary. Nina Jankowicz, who worked at the Wilson Center as a global fellow and a
disinformation fellow, is the executive director of the board. She "joined the Biden administration to lead a new
initiative" in early March, according to her LinkedIn. "She doesn't seem qualified," Barr said about Jankowicz.
"She seems to be a radical."
Disinformation
Panels, Control over Social Media Content and Now DOJ Environmental Justice. Barack Obama and Eric Holder did
not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons
only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people get confused. Prior to 9/11/01
the greatest threat to government was considered to be from outside the U.S, vis-a-vis terrorism. After 9/11/01 the
greatest threat was redefined, Americans were now considered the threat, the enemy tracking radar was turned around to look
inside America. In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve
continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this
purpose. DHS and ODNI were created because Americans were now the threat to government. Stop. Pause.
Think. You are taking off your shoes at the airports because YOU are the threat. You pass through body scanners
because YOU are the threat. Stop. Pause. Think. How does that define your relationship with government?
The
Disinformation Governance Board Has Nothing to Do With Disinformation. This whole Disinformation Governance
Board idea isn't going over too well. When it was announced that the Biden administration was creating an entire agency
whose supposed purpose is to root out and address "disinformation," folks on both the left and right criticized the
move. As time went on and people learned more about the board's function, people became even more incensed. In a
Senate hearing Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul made Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wish for a stiff drink as
he gave him a grilling that would make even Joe Friday cringe. The senator's questions helped to expose why the creation
of such an entity is not only unnecessary but terrifying to those who value the First Amendment and the spirit behind it.
Rand
Paul devours Mayorkas on disinformation. Actor James Woods thoroughly enjoyed Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tearing
into Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the formation of a newly-announced Orwellian "Disinformation
Governance Board," comparing it to a lion dining on a gazelle. [Tweet] "You say your new disinformation board is going
to help the public with disinformation," he told Mayorkas referring to what is being seen as a "Ministry of Truth" by
many. "You claim it is not going to be about domestic, it is going to be about foreigners. Those evil Russians."
"Here's my question: The FBI concludes that the Steele dossier was full of Russian disinformation. CNN propagated this
disinformation gladly for years and years. The difference between your opinion and our opinion is that no matter how
despicable it is that CNN propagated this disinformation, I wouldn't lecture them, I wouldn't put it on a government website
that CNN is wrong for propagating disinformation," Paul continued.
States
Sue Biden Administration for 'Pressuring and Colluding' With Big Tech to Censor Free Speech. Two Republican-led
states have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and
other top administration officials for allegedly pressuring and colluding with social media giants with the aim of censoring
and suppressing free speech. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed
the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on April 5, they announced in separate
statements on Thursday [5/5/2022]. The attorneys claim that Biden and other government officials worked with big tech
companies like Meta, Twitter, and YouTube to censor conversation around matters relating to everything from COVID-19 and
election integrity to the Hunter Biden laptop story, doing so under the guise of combating "misinformation." Others
named in the lawsuit include Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and
the executive director of DHS's newly established "Disinformation Governance Board," Nina Jankowicz.
Ministry
of Truth Director Shares Thoughts on 'Gender Disinformation' in Eyebrow Lifting Video. Governance
Disinformation Board Dir. Nina Jankowicz is an "expert." I've been assured of it by the Biden administration and
the news media. What are her credentials? Apparently, taking part in biased academic studies any undergraduate
student could do and making TikTok videos. In other words, for being such an "expert" on disinformation, Jankowicz sure
can't seem to understand what it is and what it isn't. Another video has emerged where she deals with "gender
disinformation." [Video clip] Two things stick out to me when I watch this, and I think they illustrate why
she's supremely unqualified to hold a position that shouldn't exist in the first place. To start, every single example
she gives is done in defense of someone on the left. It's as if "disinformation" about right-leaning figures simply
doesn't exist.
We
Can't Let Ourselves Be Oppressed by Weirdos, Losers, and Mutations. All leftists are insufferable, but this
current crop is insufferable in many diverse ways. It's not just the ones who defile or mutilate themselves to get
their parents' attention. It also includes ones that don't tatt up, who appear normal until they open up their kale
holes. Think Nina Jankowicz. On the surface, she looks like any other childless, middle-aged Chardonnay-guzzler
who is pushing 40 but has failed thus far to earn the love of a man. But when she starts talking, yikes. And just
look at the antics of that fascist disinformation girl. She sings show tunes. She's into Harry Potter —
non-threatening sensitive and magical boys are sooooo dreamy. She's also eager to shove you into a train car headed to
a gulag, and as it pulls away from the station she'll be shouting at you ruffians to use your inside voices. That's
right — the mediocre girl who played the lead in your high school's production of "Hello, Dolly!" [...] is the
harbinger of tyranny.
DHS
Secretary Threatened with Prison Time If 'Ministry of Truth' is Illegal and is Not Abolished. The Ministry of
Truth is now running up against a harsh political reality: Americans across the political spectrum have no desire to be
censored by their own government. Both Republicans and vulnerable Democrats facing midterm elections are under
increasing pressure to ensure voters are not silenced by the Department of Homeland Security's new 'Disinformation Board.'
Sen. Bill Hagerty, a Republican from Tennessee, sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week outlining
why the Disinformation Board is probably illegal. "Hagerty wrote that the board may violate the Antideficiency Act,
which says the executive branch can't spend money unless Congress authorizes it, and that its creation also may be subject to
the Congressional Review Act," the New York Post reported.
Missouri
and Louisiana File Suit Against Biden Administration Over Collusion With Tech Giants to Suppress Free Speech.
On Thursday, the states of Missouri and Louisiana filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of
Louisiana against numerous Biden Administration officials and agencies alleging that they colluded with social media
companies to suppress and censor free speech on several topics, including Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell" and the Wuhan lab
leak theory surrounding the origins of COVID-19.
Sen.
Kennedy Takes Mayorkas Apart Over Nina Jankowicz, Exposes a Larger Problem. Joe Biden and the DHS have been
getting justifiably pummeled over their new "Disinformation Governance Board" — a truly Orwellian idea that the
Biden Administration announced to prevent the spread of "disinformation," including in minority communities "ahead of the
midterms." An astonishing thing on multiple levels — for treating minorities like children who need to be told
what they should believe, as well as the government deciding what qualifies as "disinformation," particularly since they are
big purveyors of disinformation themselves.
Biden's
new disinformation czar said fears about CRT in Loudoun County schools are 'disinformation for profit'. Joe
Biden's new 'disinformation czar' dismissed concerns about Critical Race Theory in schools as 'disinformation for
profit' — despite parents across the country being worried about the teaching of the philosophy in their
children's classrooms. Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation expert who has worked throughout Eastern Europe, was hired on
April 27 to lead a Homeland Security Department working group designed to help its different agencies in dealing with
disinformation on topics ranging from migration to plots from Russia and Iran. But her appointment has angered
Republicans. The Republican National Committee dubbed the committee she heads 'Ministry of Truth' in a nod to George
Orwell's novel '1984,' and raised fears that the group will deem as disinformation 'any speech we don't like.'
Spreading
Roe disinformation: Where are the disinformation police? For decades, scholars on both sides of the issue
have said Roe v Wade was wrongly decided by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is supposed to determine
if laws are constitutional and Roe V Wade created law, instead of interpreting law. Now that it looks like the
Supreme Court may correct the wrong, and send the issue back to the states or Congress, the media and other Democrats are
having a collective cow and colluding to just make [stuff] up to scare the public. In other words, they are
intentionally spreading misinformation to influence and interfere in the election.
1984 is Here Today.
Thought it could never happen in America? Welcome to 1984, written by George Orwell (written as a warning but now being
used as a "how-to" manual), and being promoted by, who else, Joe Biden and his extreme lefts cadre of handlers and stooges.
[...] Joe announced a new government watchdog department titled, now get this, the Disinformation Governance Board. [...]
This is the Left's blatant speech, thought and mind control machine being put into practice under the control of the most
unethical anti-American values bunch ever to gain power in this nation. The only reason they resort to this is that
their endless lists of failures, destructive policies, absurd spending, devaluing our dollars, and general shortages, have
American voters turning against them so they need a weapon of mass social destruction to try to stay in power. This is
their answer to the people's cry for relief and desire for common sense in government.
Motherboard
suggests women could take horse meds to induce abortions, not banned for disinformation. Some of the same
far-left voices who mocked popular podcaster Joe Rogan for using a so-called "horse de-wormer" to cure his COVID last year
are now actively encouraging women to use horse ulcer medication to induce an abortion. "Misoprostol is relatively easy
to acquire from veterinary sources, since in addition to medically inducing abortions, it's also used to treat ulcers in
horses," a Tuesday tweet from the far-left "news" publication Vice's tech department, Motherboard, reads. The tweet
links to a full-blown Vice piece on the subject. "With the Supreme Court poised to overturn the constitutional right to
abortion, an anarchist collective that makes DIY medicine has released detailed instructions for making abortion pills," the
piece states. [Tweet]
Either the Secretary is spreading some misinformation of his own, or he doesn't do his homework before hiring someone. 'I
Was Not Aware': Mayorkas Says He Didn't Know About Truth Czar's Viral Videos. Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday [5/4/2022] he was unaware that the Biden administration's new truth czar was
making TikTok videos. While testifying before the Senator Judiciary Committee, Republican Louisiana Sen. John
Kennedy asked "when the department picked [Nina Jankowicz], was the department aware of her TikTok videos?" "They're
really quite precocious," Kennedy said, alluding to Jankowicz now viral video. Mayorkas then admitted he "was not aware
of those videos."
When Nina Met Joey.
[Scroll down] As Roger Kimball explains, Nina Jankowicz is an "anti-Trump hack," already on record that Hunter Biden's
laptop is a "Trump campaign product" and "Russian influence op." Jankowicz is also a big fan of Christopher Steele, author of
the pissing prostitutes dossier, a Clinton campaign product now exposed as pure disinformation. Jankowicz also
criticized Trump Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe for his declassification decisions. According to our
new government disinformation chief, Ratcliffe "dredged up the whole Hillary Clinton email scandal and the hack and leak
operation perpetrated by the Russians, and again, that seemed like a political decision designed to help President Trump."
Such faithful service is doubtless the primary reason for the selection of Jankowicz. On the other hand, another
possibility cannot be discounted. Nina Jankowicz is a wannabe chanteuse who croons "I want to be rich, famous and
powerful, step on all my enemies and never do a thing," on YouTube.
Beyond
a Slush Fund, Biden $33 Billion Ukraine Package Includes $8.8 Billion to Establish State Dept Global Disinformation
Bureau. The details of the Joe Biden $33 billion supplemental budget allocation have been released. I
would strongly urge everyone to read the proposal which now heads to congress for passage. The spending request
outlines a massive amount of money for various ideological foreign policy initiatives under the guise of Ukraine relief (it
isn't). The proposal outlines a kickback and bribery scheme. Some of the spending includes an allocation of funds
to the State Dept including funds to USAID to "provide $8.8 billion to the Department of State for economic support and
assistance to the people of Ukraine and other affected countries, including direct budgetary support, as well as support for
food security, democracy, anticorruption, cybersecurity, counter-disinformation, human rights, atrocity documentation,
energy, and emergency infrastructure needs." The request specifically authorizes the transfer of these funds globally,
outside of Ukraine.
Ri-i-i-ight. That's what they said about the Patriot Act. Biden
administration says disinfo board about foreign threats, not censorship. The Biden administration is insisting
that its controversial Disinformation Governance Board will protect the country from outside threats and won't impinge on
people's civil liberties amid criticism that the initiative could prompt increased government censorship. President Joe
Biden's press secretary defended the Orwellian-sounding board Monday, attempting to position it as a nonpartisan coordinating
body for the Department of Homeland Security's work responding to disinformation. "It's continuing work that was done
by CISA back to 2020," Jen Psaki said, referring to the federal cybersecurity agency that is a component of DHS, adding that the
board "would help coordinate internal activities from the department related to disinformation that poses a threat to the homeland."
Obama's
Fundamental Manipulation of Free Speech. Setting the stage for the DHS announcement of the Biden
Administration's Disinformation Governance Board recently, at a Stanford University Cyber Policy Center symposium entitled,
"Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm," deceptive mind-control specialist Barack Obama emerged from
behind his Joe Biden mask to deliver the keynote speech. According to the anonymous author of the 2009 Department of
Homeland Security treatise on "right-wing extremism," government needs to help companies better "...recognize the
often-dangerous relationship between social media, nationalism [and] domestic hate groups" like pro-lifers, ex-military,
Second Amendment supporters, Christians, and America-First patriots. Well aware that the voice of the people threatens
the trajectory of the global elite agenda, the former president used the opportunity to double down on what he does best,
which is to manipulate minds with clever word games.
A
Language Mauled In Service Of Power. We've heard since we were school kids that control of the language means
control of thought. Anyone who has doubts that this is exactly what the Democrats have in mind must have missed the
news last week when the White House named Nina Jankowicz to be the first disinformation czarina in U.S. history. Their
objective is to regulate our thinking. [...] Understanding how truly depraved the Democrats have become requires little more
than a glimpse of Jankowicz's logic twisting. She has argued that it should be against the law to mock women
online. Taking her insanity one step further, she claimed — yes, she really did — that "gender
disinformation" used to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris is a "national security concern." Of course, these
protections wouldn't apply to Sarah Palin, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was White House
press secretary under Donald Trump and is now running for governor in Arkansas, or any other GOP women. They have been
"othered" by Democrats and the media due to their party affiliation, and therefore deserve any disinformation and
misinformation that's heaped upon them.
FNC's
Turley: Biden 'Arguably the Most Anti-Free Speech President Since John Adams'. Monday [5/2/2022], Fox
News contributor Jonathan Turley reacted to the Department of Homeland Security's appointment of Nina Jankowicz to run its
so-called "Disinformation Governance Board." Turley said the Biden administration tabbing "one of the most outspoken
critics of free speech" to police what it deemed "disinformation" was "telling." He argued that President Joe Biden was
"arguably the most anti-free speech president since John Adams." "I think it's telling that the Biden administration went
out and recruited one of the most outspoken critics of free speech," Turley stated on "America Reports."
US
officials admit routinely spreading false information about Russia-Ukraine war. Following many years of
government and legacy media lies across broad spectrums of topics, perhaps intensifying most recently with regard to the
COVID-19 phenomenon and the relentless pushing of its dangerous and ineffective experimental gene-based "vaccines," many may
wonder if they can trust government information on other significant matters, particularly the current war in Ukraine.
Remarkably, according to NBC News, government officials have answered this question in the negative by admitting that they
regularly circulate war-related "intelligence" which they rate as "low-confidence," "based more on analysis than hard
evidence," or which is just simply false, as a means of fighting an "information war against Russia."
How
Republican Senators Can Defund Biden's Dystopic 'Disinformation Board'. In an apparent homage to George
Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" — one the rest of us realize is a pointed political allegory but the Biden
administration apparently views as a handbook — the Biden White House is establishing a Disinformation Governance
Board. Yes, you read that correctly. The government is going to decide what's true and what's false, and punish
disseminators accordingly. The bureaucrats who run the Department of Homeland security, where this board will be
housed, are going to be parsing fact from fiction, obviously to keep us all safe from the scourge of independent judgment and
thought. Naturally, Nina Jankowicz, the woman they've put in charge of this board, thinks America is a little too "free
spirited." Apparently, her life's work has been focused on doing something about that. White House Press
Secretary Jen Psaki has cited Jankowicz's "extensive qualifications," which include being a disinformation fellow (whatever
that is) at the Wilson Center and advising the Ukrainian foreign minister (about who knows what, exactly).
Do
We Draw the Line at a US Ministry of Truth? This aspiring dictatorship is getting desperate and
dangerous. Imagine having complete control over America's corporate news propaganda arm and still feeling vulnerable
when it comes to "securing the narrative." Imagine having all the Big Tech censors working for the U.S. Intelligence
Community, and the masters of disinformation are still unsure whether they can amply manipulate American opinion.
Imagine dedicating a year and a half to persecuting anyone who questions the legitimacy of the 2020 election and learning
that more Americans than ever now view that monstrosity as tainted by fraud. Imagine shamelessly spinning the Capitol
breach into an attempted coup d'état only to find that half the country believes that the federal government is in the
business of imprisoning political protesters. [...] When propaganda, domestic espionage, malicious prosecution, blackmail,
and an organized terror campaign of burn-loot-murder mayhem directed against ordinary Americans fail to subdue the
citizen population, what do aspiring totalitarians do next? That's right, friends, come on down: it's Ministry of Truth
time! The same Department of Homeland Security that has never had any interest in securing the homeland (come right
over, international terrorists and drug-runners, the border's wide open!) will now dedicate its malignant resources to
censoring so much truth that only the government's lies can be heard!
Mayorkas
on Jankowicz: She Is a 'Tremendous Authority' We 'Are Very Fortunate to Have Her'. Secretary of Homeland
Security Alejandro Mayorkas said on this week's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday" that the recently announced head of the
so-called Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz was a "tremendous authority." Anchor Bret Baier said, "The
president picked to lead this is Nina Jankowicz. She is taking heat for tweets and comments about major news stories,
the Hunter Biden laptop story, others. The laptop story obviously was blocked from social media outlets because it was
called Russian propaganda until it wasn't. Do you really think Jankowicz is anywhere near objective enough for this
particular job?" Mayorkas said, "Yes, I do, and by the way, highly regarded is a subject matter expert, and I don't
question her objectivity. There are people and the department who have a diverse range of views, and they are
incredibly dedicated to mission. We are not the opinion police. She has testified before Congress and number of
times. She is recognized as a tremendous authority, and we are very fortunate to have her."
Mayorkas's
oily assurances about his Disinformation Governance Board fall flat. Following the announcement of his
"Disinformation Governance Board," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas found himself scrambling to spin the
hideous new speech enforcer, claiming it was not as Orwellian as any normal person would think. [...] Like any Biden
administration official, he claimed that anyone who saw problems with this was responding to a "messaging" problem rather
than a real problem: [...] He also claimed that his choice for his rhymes-with-KGB board, Nina Jankowicz, was completely
objective. [...] Not one word of it is to be believed. [Bret] Baier did a pretty good objective-effort interview
but one thing he didn't mention was the strange timing of the DGB rollout: It was right when Elon Musk decided to
purchase Twitter in order to restore its free speech orientation. The left had an absolute meltdown about that, as
they had benefited politically from Twitter's outrageous censorship practices which were ongoing.
The
Nurse Ratched of Disinformation. When we first heard Alejandro Mayorkas announce a Department of Homeland
Security "Disinformation Governance Board," we thought he was trolling. Then he said Nina Jankowicz, best known as
TikTok's "Mary Poppins of Disinformation," would head it. LOL, as the kids say. Right out of the gate, Jankowicz
trumpeted her "committment [sic] to protecting free speech." Apparently Mayorkas is serious, and the administration is
rolling out Jankowicz, author of the new book "How to Be a Woman Online," as a "renowned expert in the field of
disinformation." That's true, though she's more a practitioner of the craft than an expert in combating it.
Jankowicz condemned the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop as a "Russian influence op" and fanned the
bogus claim that the Steele dossier began as a "Republican opposition research project."
CNN
Guest Gives the Game Away in Deranged Rant on Controlling Speech. Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter has made all
the right people mad, and that includes a lot of the talking heads within the mainstream media. Initial reactions were
as overwrought as you'd expect, with cable news setting its collective hair on fire. But, if anyone thought the passage
of time would bring about some moderation, I can assure you that hasn't happened. CNN held a hilariously composed
roundtable on Sunday morning with figures like Brian Stelter, April Ryan, and someone named David Zurawik. While
obviously being an avid political observer, I'll admit to having no idea who Zurawik is. Yet, my first exposure to him
has certainly left an impression. Namely, that he's deranged. While discussing Musk's acquisition, Zurawik lit
into a hysterical rant about the supposed dangers of unabridged free speech. In doing so, he managed to give the
game away on what about this deal is actually driving the media so insane.
Biden's
'Mary Poppins of Disinformation' the perfect nanny to tidy up mess of free speech? "You can just call me the
Mary Poppins of disinformation." That Twitter intro to a TikTok parody of the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is
now indelibly connected to Nina Jankowicz, the new head of the federal government's announced Disinformation Governance
Board. Given her record of spreading disinformation and advocating censorship, Jankowicz hardly needed the
musical-inspired persona. Yet, for the Biden administration, Jankowicz — like Mary Poppins — is
"practically perfect in every way" to keep track of whether we all "measure up" in our public statements. It is still
unclear from the administration's public statements what authority the board will wield, but White House press secretary Jen
Psaki described the board as intended "to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a
range of communities."
Ukraine
passes "disinformation" law, begins making arrests. It would appear that it's not just Alejandro Mayorkas who
is setting up a Ministry of Truth in a supposedly free and democratic country and policing the speech of citizens. It
turns out that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thought that was a fine idea as well, so he worked with his country's
legislature to put a similar program in place following Russia's invasion of his country. His government is seeking to
identify "traitors" who have expressed support for Russia and its war against "Nazis" in Ukraine. Anyone who has been
materially aiding the enemy is of course subject to prosecution, but people have been arrested just for expressing their
support for Moscow on social media. That's what happened to a man known only as "Victor" this month. Ukrainian
security officers in full riot gear showed up at his apartment in Kharkiv to talk to him about some of his social media posts
before hauling him off to jail.
Democrats'
attacks on what they call "disinformation" have their roots in Barack Obama's Truth Squad. While calling public
figures "Orwellian" goes back decades, usually it's an exaggeration. Not so with the new Misinformation and
Disinformation Governance Board, whose existence was revealed by the soulless hack Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden's secretary
of Homeland Security. The board's executive director is Nina Jankowicz, a misinformationist. Among other things,
Jankowicz in 2020 called into question the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop revelations. George Orwell's "Ministry
of Truth" in 1984 of course propagandized lies. The Democrats' Orwellian attacks on their opponents began during Barack
Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, when he created groups such as "The Truth Squad."
Truth
Social under 'direct attack' by Biden's disinformation board. Truth Social is a target of the Biden
administration's new Disinformation Governance Board, according to the man running former President Donald Trump's nascent
social network. Devin Nunes, the congressman who left office to become the CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group,
posed the government as the most significant threat to freedom of speech now that "Big Tech tyrants" can't silence people's
voices. "I think it's so Orwellian, so dystopian, something you only see in dictatorships that now, they're going to
set up some type of disinformation board. I think that's a direct attack on what we are doing at Truth Social, because
we can no longer be canceled," Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on her Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures [5/1/2022].
Who
else should serve on the Government Disinformation Board? The Department of Homeland Security has decided to
create a "Disinformation Governance Board," Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated in congressional hearings held last
week. Though Mayorkas attempted to link it to efforts to combat misinformation from human smugglers and to counter
Russian cyber and election misinformation, no one really knows the extent of the board's mission. [...] The administration's
choice of an executive director to head the board, Nina Jankowicz, has not inspired confidence in the integrity of the DGB,
either. Jankowicz has historically been a staunch supporter of Democrats. And she believed the shocking Hunter
Biden laptop story was fabricated, part of a Kremlin influence operation. She has been wrong about numerous other
things, as well, while seemingly labeling anything with which she disagrees as "disinformation."
The
last people anyone should trust to tell or determine the truth are journalists and government officials. There
are many examples of where the media colluded with the Democrats to intentionally spread misinformation to the public.
Here is a small sample: Democrats in Congress have repeatedly challenged elections where they lost yet they weren't
called treasonous, weren't said to be against democracy, where we didn't have endless hearings, and they weren't
silenced. Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and others repeatedly lied to the public about Obamacare, but the media not only didn't
silence them, but they also supported them. Obama and Hillary concocted a lie about Benghazi, as Americans were killed,
and the media never silenced them. The Obama administration used the media to spread lies to get support for the Iran
deal, yet the media never silenced them. Most of the media still supports the deal that enriched Iran, which continues
to spread terrorism and pledge death to America. The media and others intentionally spread the lie of "Hands up Don't
Shoot" that ginned up racial hate against cops. How many cops have been killed and injured because of that intentional
lie? Yet, no one who spread the lie has been silenced. The media, DNC, the Hillary campaign and government
employees colluded to spread the lie about Russian collusion to destroy Trump and they have not been silenced.
A
Bridge Too Far, the Demise of the Democrats. [Scroll down] The other devastating part of the demise of
the Democrats is their totalitarian, tyrannical nature when it comes to squelching any dissenting thought, perspective,
opinions, and assessment. The fact that the left wants to establish a Disinformation Board in the Department of
Homeland Security is highly disturbing. And that is true especially when you consider the Secretary of Homeland
Defense's assertion that the southern border is being well managed. The left in America has gone too far, but will
constitutional conservatives rise to the occasion and crush them at the ballot box? The Republican party must realize
that this is not the time for bipartisanship, compromise, or any other forms of weakness. This is the time to
resoundingly defeat leftism in America.
Democrats
place American democracy in grave peril. The past few weeks have been extremely troubling for those who value
democracy, freedom, human rights, and civil liberties within the United States of America. Democrats have made
unprecedented power grabs. If left unchecked, democracy will wither away in favor of a sinister police state.
Recently, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified that a Disinformation Governance Board has been set up to
counter disinformation coming from Russia, China, Iran, the cartels, and other hostile actors, rebutting their misleading
information. Critics have rightly slammed this as Biden's Ministry of Truth. In recent days, Mayorkas didn't
state the specific powers the board may have, he only said that the board would "tackle the threat, not only to election
security, but to our homeland security," and would work with platforms to stop it. Will they be able to prosecute
people for spreading 'disinformation? Will this board be restricted to focus on social media only as its tool, or will
the powers also apply to 'right-wing media' directly? We do not know.
A
Government Disinformation Board? You Don't say! Just as the internet has been roiled by the news that
Elon Musk is buying Twitter and plans to turn it into a free speech forum, the administration announced its nifty plan to
stifle free speech. Of course, the creation of such an office is a tell that their ideas cannot withstand the sunlight
of open debate. It's also a distraction from the real issues a competent administration would be dealing with. [...]
The Disinformation Governance Board, announced this week, is a mysterious creation with no known purpose or need and will be
headed by a highly eccentric gal who has a weird history of denouncing as disinformation things that are true while insisting
on things that are demonstrably false. [...] To head this mysterious operation, Mayorkas has named Nina Jankowicz, [...] She
claimed there are many non-binary people who give birth. Actually, I think that is "gender disinformation," not mockery
of women officeholders.
The
Ministry of Truth Is Where the Rubber Meets the Road. Is this the hill that patriots will die on? Is this
the moment when MAGA nation says, "[...], no"? Is this the time when hardworking blue-collar Americans say with a
unified voice: "We will not comply"? Is this the legal case where the Supreme Court acts as if it is ...the Supreme
Court and declares Mr. Biden's newly created Bureau of Disinformation unconstitutional from its inception? Is this
the final straw, where a clear plurality of Republicans "man up" and act as the opposition party should, and refuse to fund
Mr. Biden's "Ministry of Truth"? I think America and the rest of the world will know the answers to these questions
soon. If the answers are yes, we still have a country based on the U.S. Constitution. If the answers are
no, we are done as a democratic republic, and the Constitution has no teeth.
The Disinformation
Governance Machine. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell called the enforcement mechanism of his
totalitarian propaganda regime the "Ministry of Truth." Appearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee, the
ironically named Department of Homeland Security was slightly more subtle. Too many people have read Nineteen
Eighty-Four. Calling a government-funded effort to suppress criticism of the regime the "Ministry of Truth" would
cause people to worry and complain. Instead, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the creation of
the "Disinformation Governance Board." No, I am not making that up. I sympathize with Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis, who said he wondered whether this new assault on free expression was a "belated April Fools' joke."
Unfortunately, it's not.
Mayorkas:
Disinformation Board Won't Infringe on Free Speech, Monitor Americans. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro
Mayorkas said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that the Disinformation Governance Board would not infringe on free speech
or monitor Americans. Anchor Dana Bash said, "Let's talk about what your department is calling, The Disinformation
Governance Board that you unveiled this week. Republicans are calling it Orwellian and comparing it to the ministry of
truth in the novel 1984. Can you clarify what exactly is this? What exactly will this disinformation governance board
do? Will it monitor American citizens?" [Mayorkas reply omitted for brevity, among other things.] [...] Bash asked,
"Will American citizens be monitored?" Mayorkas said, "No, no, the board does not have any operational capability.
What it will do is gather together best practices in addressing the threat of disinformation from foreign state adversaries,
from the cartels and disseminate those best practices to the operators that have been executing and addressing this threat
for years."
J.D.
Vance: Joe Biden's 'Propaganda Ministry' Is About Enforcing Speech Codes on Americans. J.D. Vance, the
best-selling author of Hillbilly Elegy, says President Joe Biden's "propaganda ministry," referencing the administration's
new Disinformation Governance Board, is all about enforcing speech codes on American citizens. Vance, [... told]
Breitbart News Daily that Biden's Disinformation Governance Board is a blatant attempt to silence Americans on social
media companies controlled by a handful of billion-dollar tech corporations.
Homeland
Security Secretary Mayorkas praises Biden's new disinformation czar calling her 'eminently qualified and neutral' despite
fact she dismissed Hunter laptop as 'Trump campaign product'. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on
Sunday praised President Joe Biden's new disinformation czar as 'qualified and neutral' despite a slew of Republicans
criticizing her as partisan. Asked about that criticism on CNN's State of the Union, Mayorkas called Nina Jankowicz
'eminently qualified, a renowned expert in the field of disinformation.' 'And neutral?' host Dana Bash asked.
Mayorkas answered, 'Absolutely so.' He also pledged the White House's new Disinformation Governance Board will not be
used to monitor American citizens, despite mounting right-wing concerns that it will be a tool for censorship and surveillance.
DHS
secretary defends disinformation board and its 'neutral' leader. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
defended his agency's controversial new Disinformation Governance Board. Mayorkas said the board would not be used to
monitor U.S. citizens and praised its new leader, who has come under fire, during a Sunday [5/1/2022] interview on CNN's
State of the Union. "The board does not have any operational authority or capability," Mayorkas told CNN's Dana
Bash. "What it will do is gather together best practices in addressing the threat of disinformation from foreign state
adversaries, from the cartels, and disseminate those best practices to the operators that have been executing in addressing
this threat for years." The secretary said "no" when asked if the board will monitor U.S. citizens.
Biden's
Ministry of Truth will spy on American citizens. In a disturbing development for freedom of speech, the Biden
administration announced that it will collaborate with social media to crack down on any information that is critical of
Biden's vaccination policy. Disinformation, said Tucker Carlson, "seems to be anything the Biden administration does
not want the people to know including, for example, how effective the COVID vaccines actually are and what the potential side
effects might be from taking them." You would no longer be allowed to text such information to other people. Your
private conversations would be controlled by Joe Biden and the Democrats. "The Biden administration considers
censorship applicable to private speech," said Carlson. To add insult to injury, we have a new development that frankly
is beyond my comprehension. The president has created an information czar to spy on American citizens. Biden is
establishing what he calls the Disinformation Governance Board as part of the Department of Homeland Security.
Biden's
New Disinformation Governance Board Is Already Expanding Its Scope. Old Joe Biden's ominous Disinformation
Governance Board has just been announced, and it's already expanding the scope of its responsibilities. [...] But in this
case, the expansion makes the agency in question even more dangerous to the American people than it was already. When
Politico revealed the existence of the Board in an offhanded statement buried 60 paragraphs down in its Wednesday "Politico
Playbook," it said that the Department of Homeland Security was "standing up a new Disinformation Governance Board to
coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia."
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, however, went farther than that almost immediately, saying on Thursday: "We have just
established a mis- and disinformation governance board in the Department of Homeland Security to more effectively combat this
threat not only to election security, but to our homeland security." And when Jen Psaki defended Biden's new Ministry of
Truth on Thursday, she went farther still: "We know there has been a range of [disinformation] out there about a range
of topics, I mean, including COVID for example, and also elections and eligibility."
Biden's
Controversial Ministry of Truth Czar Offered Advice to New President in 2020: Disinformation Is 'an American
Pathology'. Long before Nina Jankowicz was tapped by Joe Biden to head the Disinformation Governance Board in
the Department of Homeland Security, she offered advice to the new president and claimed disinformation is "an American
pathology" that has to be cured. In her piece "How to Defeat Disinformation: An Agenda for the Biden
Administration" in Foreign Affairs magazine in November of 2020, Jankowicz spelled out what she believed should be
done at the White House, including creating her job to quash conspiracy theories about the outcome of the election. The
author of books on disinformation not only offered advice to Biden but promoted the idea of a new federal post by saying that
Biden should use "new governmental structures and legislation" to fight back.
Why
Does the Left Have Such a Difficult Time With the Concept of 'Free Speech'? [Scroll down] This is one of
those truths that appear to be self-evident. But today, only some speech is considered "free." The rest must comport
with a dizzying number of rules, conventions, and arbitrary guidelines that makes a mockery of the concept of free
speech. The left just doesn't get it. They have lost sight of the beautiful simplicity of the concept of free
speech. "If you can think it, you can speak it," is no longer operative in America. It's been lost. And if
we don't find it ... Get in line my fellow sheep.
Naomi
Wolf Eloquently Deconstructs the Terms Dis, Mis, and Malinformation. The first principle in battling against
the Alinsky crew is to not to accept their terminology. Controlling language is a specific tactic of the professional
political left. We used to call it labeling, but modern leftists moved beyond labels into the creation of new
definitions. Modern leftists now use two different strategies depending on their target: (1) create new words, the
traditional labeling; and (2) redefine existing words. In this interview Naomi Wolf is one of the few people I have
seen who correctly starts her discussion by dispatching the linguistics and framing her own baseline argument. All
politicians and candidates for office should watch how Wolf responds to the first question from Tucker Carlson, and then
makes the better argument. Wolf doesn't waste time debating "misinformation", "disinformation", or "malinformation",
instead she accurately just says those things do not exist. Information stands undefined. From that position
there are truth and lies. Her approach is exactly correct. Do not accept the insanity of the Alinsky language
effort. [Video clip]
Guys... I
think we just got a Ministry of Truth. There's a lady in the Department of Homeland Security that now runs
something called the "Disinformation Governance Board." [...] Seriously, it is not the government's job to determine
truth. It is the government's job to protect the rights of its people, provide strong borders and defense for its
people, and promote the values of its people. All under the explicit authority of the people. When government
starts determining truth claims, it becomes a religious entity. Change my mind.
White
House defends disinformation board: 'I'm not sure who opposes that'. The White House on Thursday [4/28/2022]
defended the newly announced Disinformation Governance Board that critics say will be led by someone with a history of making
controversial and misleading statements. 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 a report Wednesday
that she has been named executive director of the Department of Homeland Security's new panel.
Biden
appoints "Disinformation Czar". As we learned under the administration of Barack Obama, you can never have too
many "czars" running around the White House. (It's a rather odd choice of words when we're teetering on the brink of war with
Russia, but here we are.) Now, thanks to President Joe Biden, we're getting a brand new one. Inside the Department of
Homeland Security, there will be a "Disinformation Governance Board" that will be led by our new "Disinformation Czar."
That person is Nina Jankowicz, a former "disinformation fellow" at the Wilson Center who previously served as an advisor to
the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. I'm not sure how many people had the chance to review this new office, but the
unintentionally hilarious nature of the name they selected is pretty hard to ignore.
Biden's
Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz: Online Mockery of Kamala Harris a Threat to Democracy and National
Security. President Joe Biden's new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz argued online mockery of Vice President
Kamala Harris and other women in public life was a threat to national security. "Platforms and governments aren't doing
enough," she wrote on social media. "It's time to act. Our national security and democracy are at stake."
The Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the new Disinformation Governance Board led by Jankowicz on
Wednesday [4/27/2022]. Jankowicz argued that Congress should create new laws to block mockery of women online, citing the
volume of "gender disinformation" used to criticize Harris.
WH
Response on 'Disinformation Board' Shows Just How Desperate for Control They Are. It was not a coincidence that
you had Elon Musk buying Twitter and then all of sudden, the Biden team found the need to form a Ministry of Truth run by the
DHS — otherwise known as a creepy-sounding "Disinformation Governance Board." Now, the first reaction to such
an effort by the Biden Administration that most people would have to this is how incredibly Orwellian it is. The second
might be that it's exactly what the First Amendment was designed to protect against. The third might be to take notice
this says "governance," and is being run by the Department of Homeland Security, which usually is pursuing threats and
crimes. So, can fully-declared speech crimes be far away, when you start to have things like this?
Disinformation
and Censorship. As Scott noted yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security has established a "Disinformation
Governance Board" to combat misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms. Administration spokespeople have widened the
alleged portfolio of this group to include covid, election integrity, and much else. The announcement has been greeted
with both outrage and ridicule. In a press conference earlier today [4/29/2022], Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took on
the Disinformation Governance Board along with a broader indictment of the Biden administration. I think it is a good
example of DeSantis's skill at communication: he talks in a way that everyone can understand, and just about everyone will
agree with. [Video clip]
Psaki
gives full-throated defense of Biden's new 'disinformation' czar. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on
Friday defended the head of President Joe Biden's 'Disinformation Governance Board' and slammed the board's critics, noting
its existence goes back to the Donald Trump administration. Republicans have attacked Nina Jankowicz, who was chosen to
head the board, as a 'Russia expert' and one senator released a video of her singing about 'misinformation' to the tune of
the Mary Poppins song 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' Psaki pushed back, noting Jankowicz is 'an expert on online
disinformation.'
The Ministry
of Truth Is Real. Things got pretty weird, pretty quickly in the wake of Elon Musk's trial balloon about buying
Twitter[.] [...] The Biden administration and progressive activists (including former President Obama) sprang into action
following Monday's [4/25/2022] announcement and — quite literally — began the process of defining
disinformation and calling for its regulation to make sure bad speech was addressed and eliminated from the collective safe
space. [...] But the Biden administration, feeble as it is, was just doing the hard job laid out for it by former president
Barack Obama[,] who was just doing the job laid out for him by the Aspen Institute's disinformation commission. Obama
gave a speech at Stanford University on April 21st outlining the threats of disinformation online and how unfettered speech
is a threat to democracy (Musk was already well in the throes of figuring out how to convince Twitter to sell by this point,
of course). And the former president painted a very frightening picture, indeed. One that ultimately pointed a
finger back at "companies that have come to dominate the internet generally, and social media platforms in particular."
Meet
Biden's New Head Of The Ministry Of Truth, Nina Jankowicz. [Apparently quoting Tucker Carlson:] So, one of our
biggest law enforcement agencies has men with guns around the country doing so many things to stop disinformation and false
narratives. Those aren't even lies. They're just deviations from the approved script. Mayorkas told us
again that men with guns planned to "identify individuals who could be descending into violence." Could be
descending. Not people who've committed violence or even been accused of any crime at all. DHS is instead using
law enforcement powers to identify and punish people who think the wrong things. That would be opponents of the Biden
administration. Is this dystopian fiction? No. It's happening right in front of us. That means that
Joe Biden's partisan political enemies are now officially enemies of the state. How is this happening in America?
[Video clip]
DHS
Sec. Mayorkas claims he didn't know about new 'disinformation' czar's past. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed he didn't know the Biden administration's newly appointed
"disinformation" czar had actively pushed faked news regarding the now-infamous Steele Dossier, used to smear former
President Donald Trump, and Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell." Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Mayorkas
was asked by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) if he knew who Nina Jankowicz is, the woman Fox News's Tucker Carlson on Thursday
called, "the most ridiculous of all in [President Joe] Biden's Ministry of Truth." "She is the executive director of the
Disinformation Governance Board," Mayorkas correctly stated. "Is this the same individual who said the Dossier was real
and the Hunter Biden laptop story was false?" asked Rep. Jordan. "Is that the individual who's now running the
Disinformation Governance Board?" "I'm not familiar with those statements," Mayorkas responded.
Joe
Biden's Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz Called Herself the 'Mary Poppins of Disinformation' on Tik-Tok.
President Joe Biden's new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz once described herself as the "Mary Poppins of Disinformation,"
using Tik-Tok to warn people about 'atrocious' online content. Jankowicz made her Tik-Tok video private after it was
featured on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show Thursday night [4/28/2022], but a version of it still exists on Twitter.
Biden's
New "Minister Of Truth" Sang In Unbearably Cringe Music Videos. The ease with which insane leftists
confidently, albeit horrendously and erroneously, go through life is something worthy of a larger study. How can
self-confidence and attachment to reality be so far removed? It is simply a marvel. The Biden
administration's — indeed, the entire left's — gaslighting efforts went into overdrive this week when
it was announced that, under the Department of Homeland Security (yes, the same institution that labeled concerned parents at
school board meetings as "domestic terrorists") would be forming a separate entity with the truly Orwellian title of
Disinformation Governance Board. The Ministry of Truth is easier to say and is simply more accurate.
Biden
Forms 'Disinformation Board' to Go After Critics [and the] Official Heading It Played Role in Shutting Down [the] Hunter
Biden Story. The Biden administration is abandoning all semblance of Constitutional government by forming a
"Disinformation Board" within the Department of Homeland Security to target the Democratic Party's critics. The
provocative move — carried out in the aftermath of Elon Musk's stunning purchase of Big Tech platform
Twitter — appears to be a desperate attempt to rein in growing discontent at the Biden administration
online. The political intentions behind the maneuver are revealed by the DHS official that has been tapped to lead the
administration's version of the 'Ministry of Truth.'
U.S.
joins 55 nations to set new global rules for the internet. The United States and 55 other nations on Thursday
[4/28/2022] signed a political commitment to push rules for the internet that are underpinned by democratic values, at a time
when the U.S. has accused Russia of wielding internet disruptions as a part of its escalating attacks on Ukraine. The
commitment, called the "Declaration for the Future of the Internet" — the first such effort of its kind — protects human
rights, promotes free flow of information, protects the privacy of users, and sets rules for a growing global digital economy
among steps to counter what two Biden administration officials called a "dangerous new model" of internet policy from
countries such as Russia and China.
The Editor says...
Ri-i-i-ight. Joe Biden wants to "promote [the] free flow of information" while he sets up a "Disinformation
Governance Board" to filter out the information he doesn't like.
Should
we be alarmed by Biden's new Disinformation Governance Board? On Wednesday [4/27/2022], Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified to Congress that a Disinformation Governance Board had recently been set up.
This news comes a week after former President Obama talked about disinformation and even called for censorship of social
media at Stanford University[.] It was also announced that Nina Jankowicz will head the Department of Homeland
Security's Disinformation Governance Board as executive director. The expectation usually is that such a department
would be headed by an individual with a consistent track record of being factual and a proclivity of spotting false
information. But since it is the Biden administration, you must expect the contrary of what is required.
The
comical buffoonery of Biden's new disinformation czarina. I confess to alternating between fear and scornful
laughter when it comes to the newly announced Disinformation Governance Board that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced
April 27 in a Senate hearing. The blatant violation of the First Amendment, the lack of Congressional authorization,
the blatant choice of topics of focus (immigration and Russia in Spanish Language media) right before an election and the
utter ridiculousness of the woman named to head, it all make it hard for me to take this Orwellian state organ seriously.
Yet, Joe Biden sits on the Oval Office and commands the federal bureaucracy, which is seeming eager to accommodate plans that
would expand their powers over the citizenry. Still, the selection of Nina Jankowicz to head the organization inclines
me to laughter. Tucker Carlson began his April 28, 2022 show with a segment on Jankowicz that was alternately
horrifying and hilarious.
Biden's
Ministry of Truth. Earlier this week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told
Congress that his agency is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat "misinformation" coming from Russia as we
near this year's midterm elections. The Biden administration's new Committee on Public Information will be led by Nina
Jankowicz, "a disinformation fellow" who, perfectly enough, comes to the administration from a think tank named after Woodrow
Wilson. Like Wilson, Mayorkas, himself a font of untruths, does not explain under what constitutional power he proposes
to oversee speech. It gets tedious to point this out, but you can vividly imagine the thermonuclear meltdown the
country would be (rightly) subjected to if a Republican president assembled a government panel tasked with weeding out
"disinformation." To our technocrats' dismay, this isn't Europe, where the state can dictate allowable speech and sometimes
arrests those who don't abide. Here, citizens are the ones who call out the state for peddling misinformation, not the
other way around.
WH
pick for Big Brother-like disinformation board spread lie about Hunter Biden laptop. President Biden's pick to
lead his Department of Homeland Security's Big Brother-like Disinformation Governance Board has her own history of posting
disinformation online. Nina Jankowicz, who was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, has repeatedly cast doubt
on The Post's reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop. During a series of live tweets during the presidential debate
between Biden and Donald Trump in October 2020, Jankowicz had referenced the laptop. "Back on the 'laptop from hell,'
apparently — Biden notes 50 former natsec officials and 5 former CIA heads that believe the laptop is a Russian
influence op," Jankowicz tweeted.
A
Society Convinced It Needs Seeing Eye Dogs. As everyone who has used badly programmed graphics programs knows,
artifacts occur when narrative objects left over from the last rendering intrude on the current view. To deal with
artifacts, George Orwell coined the phrase "memory hole." "A memory hole is any mechanism for the deliberate alteration or
disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts or other records, such as from a website or
other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened." Often audiences of
mediated views simply pretend not to see the artifacts, even though they have not yet been refreshed away, because by
convention that is the way the game works. Lastly, there is pixelization, caused by mediation's ability to portray an
event in arbitrarily fine detail. In social media, these often appear as slogan-categories like 'climate denier',
'Nazi', 'Karen', 'oligarch' etc.
Biden
Regime Announces Creation of "Disinformation Governance Board" Under the Authority of Homeland Security with a Lunatic in
Charge. Following Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter last week, which was a triumphant victory in the ongoing war
over free speech, the Biden Regime announced the creation of a "Disinformation Governance Board" that will be tasked with
silencing anything deemed to be misinformation that's related to homeland security. And, yes. It's just as
dystopian and creepy as it sounds. The new board will operate under the authority of the Department of Homeland
security with a special focus on Russia and "irregular migration," according to the Post Millennial.
Deep
State Response, Dept of Homeland Security Will Establish Disinformation Board with Obvious Agenda. I think we
are now seeing the outlines of how the Fourth Branch of Government are planning to keep control over information,
specifically public discussion on Big Tech platforms, even as Elon Musk moves to open the valves of information from the
social media platform Twitter. Previously the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a new
Dept of Homeland Security priority to combat disinformation {LINK} on technology platforms including social media. Many
eyebrows were raised as the announcement appeared to be an open admission that the U.S. government was going to control
information by applying labels, that would align with allies in social media, who need a legal justification for censorship
and content removal.
Biden
sets up 'Disinformation Board' to combat midterm fake news headed by Russia expert who called Hunter's laptop a 'Trump
campaign product'. President Biden has set up a 'disinformation' board headed-up by a woke so-called expert
who's against free speech and tried to pour cold water on the Hunter laptop scandal. Nina Jankowicz will head The
Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board as executive director, Politico Playbook reported Wednesday
morning [4/27/2022]. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas did not disclose any powers that would be granted to
the dystopian-sounding board while addressing lawmakers on Wednesday. He explained that the board would work to tackle
disinformation ahead of the November midterms, particularly in Hispanic communities.
Biden's
'disinformation' chief Trump dossier author fan and Hunter Biden laptop doubter. The Biden administration's new
czar to combat disinformation has a history of sharing misleading claims about British ex-spy Christopher Steele's
discredited dossier and downplaying controversy embroiling President Joe Biden's son. 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 a report Wednesday that she has been named executive director of the Department of Homeland
Security's new "Disinformation Governance Board." [...] But there's a lot to unpack before she even gets started in her new
role. The Washington Examiner dove into her comments in recent years.