{"id":1458865,"date":"2022-04-30T08:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458865"},"modified":"2022-04-30T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:29:42","slug":"biden-admins-new-ministry-of-truth-faces-mounting-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admins-new-ministry-of-truth-faces-mounting-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin\u2019s New Ministry of Truth Faces Mounting Criticism"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-admins-new-ministry-of-truth-faces-mounting-criticism%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=1458865&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=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Federal and state lawmakers, constitutional scholars and other experts are expressing concerns with the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republicans-accuse-mayorkas-discrediting-legitimate-criticism-disinformation-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">misinformation board<\/a>, which they say is the Biden administration&#8217;s attempt to stifle free speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Mayorkas announced during testimony Wednesday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security that DHS had created a Disinformation Governance Board to combat online disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal is to bring the resources of (DHS) together to address this threat,&#8221; Mayorkas said during the hearing, adding that the department is focused on the spread of disinformation in minority communities ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republicans-accuse-mayorkas-discrediting-legitimate-criticism-disinformation-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>REPUBLICANS ACCUSE MAYORKAS OF DISCREDITING &#8216;LEGITIMATE CRITICISM&#8217; WITH &#8216;DISINFORMATION&#8217; BOARD, DEMAND INFO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/nina-jankowicz-disinfo.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Nina Jankowicz will be executive director of the misinformation board.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Nina Jankowicz will be executive director of the misinformation board.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Arkadiusz Wargu\u0142a\/iStock)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., was quick to condemn this latest action by the Biden administration, promising to introduce legislation to defund the new disinformation board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Federal Government has no business creating a Ministry of Truth. The Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s &#8220;Disinformation Board&#8221; is unconstitutional and unamerican, and I&#8217;ll be introducing a bill to defund it,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1520045316715782144?s=20&#038;t=QCdQnE1bX6_jV72o3-OENw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tweeted<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., similarly tweeted, &#8220;Nothing else we are working on will matter if we don\u2019t put an end to the Biden\u2019s Ministry of Truth.&#8221; And Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., stated, &#8220;I trust the common sense of the American people. A government arbiter of &#8216;truth&#8217; department is a [red flag] for free thinking people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRickScott\/status\/1520033827971809281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plans to ask<\/a> Mayorkas more about the board in a hearing next week before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., organized a letter Friday to Mayorkas, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, to &#8220;conduct oversight&#8221; on the new board and &#8220;continued efforts within the Biden Administration to suppress free speech and discredit legitimate criticism as misinformation.&#8221; All 19 House Oversight Republicans signed the letter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The same party that spent years promoting the Russia collusion hoax, suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, &#038; equated parents to terrorists believes it has credibility to control your speech,&#8221; House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mccarthy-calls-on-biden-to-disband-disinformation-board-orwellian-ministry-of-truth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>tweeted<\/u><\/a> on Friday. &#8220;Biden must immediately abandon his plan to create an Orwellian Ministry of Truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1394033379_1280x.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee April 27, 2022, in Washington, D.C.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee April 27, 2022, in Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., also sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/turner.house.gov\/_cache\/files\/6\/f\/6fa77066-17ff-47ee-ae1e-84c23087d504\/483943ACB0601BCC369B64C69ED6A8C8.ltr-to-dhs-disinfo-gov-bd-28-april-22-final.pdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">letter<\/a> to Mayokras Friday, expressing &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; about the lack of information about the activities of the board under Jankowicz&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mayorkas-dhs-disinformation-governance-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>MAYORKAS TESTIFIES DHS IS CREATING &#8216;DISINFORMATION GOVERNANCE BOARD&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert\/status\/1520082623879688193?s=20&#038;t=6mkiaN6Trlfn7Z2B2JN81g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;I don\u2019t think people are fully understanding the severity of what a Ministry of Truth organized by DHS truly means. This is Stalin level. This is Mao level. This is the hill to die on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The issue has spread to states, with GOP lawmakers and leaders pushing back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-defends-dhs-disinformation-board-not-sure-who-opposes-that-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS DHS &#8216;DISINFORMATION&#8217; BOARD: &#8216;NOT SURE WHO OPPOSES THAT EFFORT&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly, our entire principles that the country was founded on you cannot have a Ministry of Truth in this country,&#8221; Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a press conference Friday. &#8220;So let\u2019s get real here, let\u2019s make sure we\u2019re doing things to benefit Floridians and Americans, but we\u2019re not going to let Biden get away with this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dhs-orwellian-disinformation-board-eric-schmitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to Mayorkas Friday that was obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. In the letter, Schmitt states that the focus of the &#8220;Orewellian&#8221; board to focus resources on the threat of &#8220;mis\/disinformation&#8221; should &#8220;shock the very core of the American belief system, a threat to free speech that will rightly alarm freedom-loving people across America, including those in my home state of Missouri.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brookings Institute Senior Fellow Shadi Hamid said the disinformation board is &#8220;not exactly a reassuring thought.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How is this even up for debate? The government should not be involved in deciding what is true and false,&#8221; Hamid continued.<\/p>\n<p>Not all the critics are Republicans or conservatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That the Biden Admin casually announced today that the Dept of Homeland Security \u2014 a domestic security agency \u2014 has created a \u2018disinformation\u2019 board is indescribably dystopian and chilling,&#8221; Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted Thursday. &#8220;That Democrats think this is good and normal tells you all you need to know about them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The White House defended the DHS board Thursday, saying its objective is to prevent disinformation in a &#8220;range&#8221; of communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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; White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in response to Republican criticism of the board during a daily press briefing. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure who opposes that effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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