Politico is reporting Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security is setting up a Disinformation Governance Board to counteract misinformation about homeland security, focusing specifically on “irregular migration” and Russia. It would have been nice had there been such a board when Border Patrol agents were accused of whipping Haitian immigrants.
Politico reports:
DHS is standing up a new Disinformation Governance Board to coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia. Nina Jankowicz will head the board as executive director. She previously was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship and oversaw Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.
Meet our newest bureaucrat:
Cat's out of the bag: here's what I've been up to the past two months, and why I've been a bit quiet on here.
Honored to be serving in the Biden Administration @DHSgov and helping shape our counter-disinformation efforts. https://t.co/uN20vl7qqV pic.twitter.com/JEn4FqLdck
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) April 27, 2022
Here's my official portrait to grab your attention. Now that I've got it: a HUGE focus of our work, and indeed, one of the key reasons the Board was established, is to maintain the Dept's committment to protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, & civil liberties. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/C4xiEGfhDt
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) April 27, 2022
More to come as we dig into the big job ahead. For now, thanks for the support 🙂
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) April 27, 2022
Wait … so Nina Jankowicz’s job is to counter misinformation related to homeland security, particularly about Russia? A lot of people are pulling up this tweet of hers from 2020:
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.
Trump says "Russia, Russia, Russia."
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) October 23, 2020
“Russia, Russia, Russia.” Jankowicz certain has a keen eye for Russian disinformation campaigns.
Amazing how all those "experts" were completely wrong, isn't it?
— Horst De Wermer, DVM, MD, PhD, GED, DDS, MOUSE (@Crapplefratz) April 27, 2022
Amazing how all those "experts" were completely wrong, isn't it?
— Horst De Wermer, DVM, MD, PhD, GED, DDS, MOUSE (@Crapplefratz) April 27, 2022
How has this tweet not been flagged as disinformation?
— Elons Tweeter 💰 (@Bobbyjoe603) April 27, 2022
Why were you knowingly spreading misinformation?
— the plan truster (@Ryan_Sharon_) April 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/tamusic81/status/1519399037098680324
Do you still believe this?
— Prathy (@Pratherj92672) April 27, 2022
Good question … does she still believe this?
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Update:
Here’s another good one:
IC has a high degree of confidence that the Kremlin used proxies to push influence narratives, including misleading or unsubstantiated claims about President Biden, to US media, officials, and influencers, some close to President Trump.
A clear nod to the alleged Hunter laptop.
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) March 16, 2021
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Update:
This one’s fresh — the woman in charge of handling disinformation shudders at the thought of “free speech absolutists” taking over.
Last week I told @NPRMichel: I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities…which are already shouldering…disproportionate amounts of this abuse.” https://t.co/GLqMwC3iYH
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) April 25, 2022
Related:
Glenn Greenwald revisits Hunter Biden laptop story coverup, ‘one of the worst cases of disinformation and censorship in modern US political history’ https://t.co/XLsQ6lnUyc
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 17, 2022
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