Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Lesko Brandon purportedly ‘paused’ his new Disinformation Governance Board. Nina Jankowicz, the person tapped to head it, announced she would resign. Internet speculation is Lesko Brandon caved to public opposition.
Brandon wasn’t the first. George Bush the Younger established the Office of Strategic Information in 2002, which was supposedly disbanded by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld due to public opposition, same as now.
Come ON, people. It’s an office of DIS-information. Its whole purpose is lying – to the enemy, to Congress, to the public, to whomever needs lying to so The Agenda is advanced.
Do you REALLY believe it’s out of business? Or has it been quietly renamed, moved to the basement, and told to issue no more public announcements but instead work only through leaks to its trusted media partners?
Joe Doakes
I firmly believe Joe is absolutely right; it’s still out there; it’s just not singing “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious“ on TikTok anymore.
She does have a nice voice.
I recommend a a stage career.
The core of it is still there: https://www.cisa.gov/mdm.
The doc defines misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM), and it does so badly. All have a strong element of intent. How does the CISA determine the intent of information? People have intent, Information does not have intent.
Don’t be fooled by CISA’s claim to protect civil rights. You have no right to read or publish on social media.
CISA is especially concerned about elections, to the point where its guide for elected officials labels MDM as any suggestion that an election had an invalid or fraudulent result:https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf
Presumably social media corporations could use the CISA doc to justify censoring any talk about election funny business that they don’t like.
This parrot is pretty much alive:
But don’t declare victory just yet.
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.”
I know, I am probably being old-fashioned, but shouldn’t any political body governing political speech be, you know, created by congress and subject to congressional oversight?
The thing is fatally flawed, as presently designed, it will ALWAYS be a political tool used by the current president to delegitimize the political speech of the opposing party.
“I recommend a a stage career.”
If they do another remake of Wizard of Oz, she could take Margaret Hamilton’s part.
JD, and they could even save on makeup!
Hopefully killing the Disinformation Board/Ministry of Truth was not merely due to Jankowicz’s tendency to be completely on the far left on most given issues, but was rather due to the notion that the 1st Amendment prohibits that.