{"id":1457766,"date":"2022-04-29T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457766"},"modified":"2022-04-29T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:30:00","slug":"psaki-defends-new-dhs-disinformation-board-has-no-idea-what-it-entails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-defends-new-dhs-disinformation-board-has-no-idea-what-it-entails\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Defends New DHS \u201cDisinformation Board,\u201d Has No Idea What It Entails"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-defends-new-dhs-disinformation-board-has-no-idea-what-it-entails%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457766&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In Thursday&#8217;s White House press conference, Press Secretary Jen Psaki voiced her support for the Biden administration&#8217;s new Disinformation Governance Board despite not being sure of the exacts of its mission or authority.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>On Wednesday, the Biden administration&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-biden-administration-creates-disinformation-governance-board-under-dhs-to-fight-misinformation\">Disinformation Governance Board<\/a> in an effort to counter the spread of misinformation related to homeland security.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Speaking about the board, and its new head Nina Jankowicz, Psaki expressed her support, but admitted she did not know exactly what the end goal was.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>One reporter brought up that fact that &#8220;[Jankowicz] had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/revealed-bidens-new-disinformation-head-has-history-of-spreading-disinformation\">called<\/a> the Hunter Biden laptop a &#8216;Trump campaign product,&#8217; seeming to discredit its validity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;How can you assuage concerns of people who are looking at this person who&#8217;s been appointed to this position and wondering if she&#8217;s going to be able to accurately judge <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/revealed-bidens-new-disinformation-head-has-history-of-spreading-disinformation\">misinformation<\/a> now that a lot of that reporting has been proven to be factual in some ways?&#8221; she asked Psaki.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Psaki sidestepped the question, refusing to comment on the laptop or Jankowicz&#8217; previous comments. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;What I can tell you,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;is that it sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure who opposes that effort,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquiHeinrich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JacquiHeinrich<\/a> asks Psaki about the &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board&#8221;: &#8220;Can you give us an idea of what this is going to be doing? What their authority would look like?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7OsGVfzZM2\">pic.twitter.com\/7OsGVfzZM2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1519767633364725762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Fox News&#8217; Jacqui Heinrich further pressed Psaki on what exactly the board&#8217;s job would entail.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Can you give us an idea of what this board is going to be doing? What their authority would look like?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I really haven&#8217;t dug into this exactly,&#8221; Psaki responded, adding nonetheless that &#8220;we, of course, support this effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;We know that there has been a range of disinfo out there about a range of topics, I mean, including COVID, for example, and also elections and eligibility.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Psaki told Heinrich that she&#8217;d &#8220;check and see if there&#8217;s more specifics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your administration has no credibility or authority to \u201cprevent disinformation.\u201d You guys are too busy spreading it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ISe88l7Ic9\">https:\/\/t.co\/ISe88l7Ic9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Support Independent Media (@BarrettWilson6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarrettWilson6\/status\/1519766060571967488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Since its announcement, the Disinformation Governance Board has garnered criticism, much of it focused on the fact that those in charge of it have been accused of purveying disinformation themselves.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday&#8217;s White House press conference, Press Secretary Jen Psaki voiced her support for the Biden administration&#8217;s new Disinformation Governance Board despite not being sure of the exacts of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}