{"id":1458297,"date":"2022-04-29T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458297"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:29:46","slug":"belated-april-fools-joke-gov-desantis-responds-to-dhs-disinformation-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/belated-april-fools-joke-gov-desantis-responds-to-dhs-disinformation-board\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Belated April Fools\u2019 Joke\u2019: Gov. DeSantis Responds To DHS\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\">22<\/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%2Fbelated-april-fools-joke-gov-desantis-responds-to-dhs-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=1458297&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<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that Florida \u201creject[s]\u201d the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s new board targeting misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/28\/exclusive-beacon-of-misinformation-sen-ron-johnson-calls-for-answers-from-dhs-over-bidens-disinformation-board-slams-nina-jankowicz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development<\/a> of the Disinformation Governance Board to counter the spread of misinformation and disinformation across the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/disinformation-governance-board-russia-us-mexico-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">particularly<\/a> on false information coming from Russia and misleading rhetoric regarding the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly thought this was just a belated April Fools joke, but they are actually going to create in\u00a0 Department of Homeland Security a bureau of disinformation,\u201d the governor began. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a Ministry of Truth, and what they want to do is they want to be able to put out false narratives without people being able to speak out and fight back. They want to be able to say things like \u2018Russia collusion\u2019 and perpetuate hoaxes and then have people like us be silenced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to be able to advocate for COVID lockdowns, they want to be able to advocate for school closures, things that are not supported by the evidence,\u201d he argued. \u201cBut then when you speak out, they want to stifle dissent, and so we reject this bureau in the state of Florida.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/28\/dont-have-information-fox-news-reporter-presses-psaki-bidens-new-minister-of-truth-biased\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018I Don\u2019t Have Any Information\u2019: Fox News Reporter Presses Psaki On Biden\u2019s New Minister Of Truth Being Biased)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Biden Administration\u2019s creation of a \u201cdisinformation\u201d bureau within DHS is effectively a Ministry of Truth that is alien to our constitutional tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Florida rejects Biden\u2019s attempt to enforce regime-approved narratives and to stifle dissent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fSnU2gk97x\">pic.twitter.com\/fSnU2gk97x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1520068299417079808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/biden-official-nina-jankowicz-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nina Jankowicz<\/a>, a global fellow at the Wilson Center, to serve as the board\u2019s executive director. She previously attempted to cast doubt on reports about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/939157661022674948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> Republicans funded the now-discredited <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/12\/09\/doj-watchdog-debunk-dossier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steele dossier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/discomforting-elon-musk-dhs-new-disinformation-governance-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elon Musk<\/a> called the new board \u201cdiscomforting\u201d Thursday in response to a tweet from comedian and political commentator Steven Crowder comparing the disinformation board to the Nazis. The announcement of the development of the Disinformation Governance Board followed Musk\u2019s over $40 billion buyout of Twitter and his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1518677066325053441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vows<\/a> to protect free speech on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is creating a misinformation governance board,\u201d Crowder said. \u201cWho else did something like that? Oh I remember, the Nazis. And there\u2019s some data showing some interesting things going on post-@elonmusk\u2019s Twitter takeover!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscomforting,\u201d Musk replied in Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson demanded a list of answers on the board in a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/572023636\/DAILY-CALLER-OBTAINED-2022-04-27-Letter-to-DHS-Re-Disinformation-Governance-Board#download&#038;from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> to the Department of Homeland Security, questioning how the board defines misinformation and which specific actions it intends to take to counter mis- and disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that Florida \u201creject[s]\u201d the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s new board targeting misinformation.The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday the development of the Disinformation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1481018,"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-1458297","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\/1458297","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}