{"id":1458279,"date":"2022-04-29T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458279"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:15:40","slug":"concerns-grow-over-bidens-orwellian-disinformation-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/concerns-grow-over-bidens-orwellian-disinformation-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns grow over Biden\u2019s \u2018Orwellian\u2019 disinformation board"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fconcerns-grow-over-bidens-orwellian-disinformation-board%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=1458279&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 id=\"attachment_2719136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2719136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2719136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22118406242871.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - Homeland Security logo is seen during a joint news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22118406242871.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22118406242871-315x210-1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22118406242871-655x437-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22118406242871-768x512-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2719136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 Homeland Security logo is seen during a joint news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation. (AP Photo\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:14 AM PT \u2013 Friday, April 29, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s so-called Disinformation Governance Board is drawing scrutiny as his top pick to head the department has her own history of spreading disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security board is Nina Jankowicz. She\u2019s known for tweets during a presidential debate in 2020 discrediting the story around Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, which has since been verified.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s my official portrait to grab your attention. Now that I&#8217;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&#8217;s committment to protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, &#038; civil liberties. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C4xiEGfhDt\">pic.twitter.com\/C4xiEGfhDt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nina Jankowicz \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@wiczipedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1519282822158110721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) addressed concerns about the board by calling it Orwellian, alluding to c\u2019s novel 1984 and the Ministry of Truth. The Republican lawmaker further criticized the board saying, \u201cleave it to Democrats to think free speech is the problem and more government is the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the White House is responding:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat I can tell you 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,\u201d said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. \u201cI\u2019m not sure who opposes that effort.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Few details have been released about the this new board.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fla-sheriff-wayne-ivey-discusses-border-crisis\/\">Fla. Sheriff Wayne Ivey Discusses Border Crisis<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 Homeland Security logo is seen during a joint news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation. (AP Photo\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 10:14 AM PT \u2013 Friday, April 29, 2022 President Joe Biden\u2019s so-called Disinformation Governance Board is drawing scrutiny &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"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-1458279","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\/1458279","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458279\/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=1458279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}