{"id":1459555,"date":"2022-05-01T13:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459555"},"modified":"2022-05-01T13:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T17:59:48","slug":"mayorkas-says-disinformation-board-will-not-infringe-on-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-says-disinformation-board-will-not-infringe-on-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas Says Disinformation Board Will Not \u2018Infringe On Free Speech\u2019"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmayorkas-says-disinformation-board-will-not-infringe-on-free-speech%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=1459555&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>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d that the agency\u2019s new disinformation board will not infringe on U.S. citizens\u2019 free speech rights.<\/p>\n<p>The department announced the creation of 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\">Disinformation Governance Board<\/a> to counter misinformation and disinformation, particularly focusing on disinformation coming from Russia and misleading rhetoric about the U.S.-Mexico border. The secretary said the board is in place to address misinformation that threatens national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe address disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland,\u201d he said. \u201cDisinformation from Russia, from China, from Iran, from the cartels. The cartels spread misinformation that Title 42 does not apply to the Haitians, and that prompts, potentially, Haitians to try to come to the United States, and what do we do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a working group that takes best practices to make sure that in addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the homeland, our work does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties. It\u2019s not about speech, it\u2019s about the connectivity to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said an individual has the First Amendment right to make an anti-semitic remark but is not permitted to hold hostages in a synagogue, referencing an incident in January where a man held four <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/15\/armed-man-hostages-texas-synagogue-swat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hostages<\/a> inside a Dallas, Texas synagogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox News Sunday\u201d host Bret Baier then asked Mayorkas about the concerns surrounding President Joe Biden\u2019s appointee to lead the board, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/biden-official-nina-jankowicz-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nina Jankowicz<\/a>, who previously attempted to discredit Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop story and claimed the Steele dossier was funded by Republicans in a 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/939157661022674948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/discomforting-elon-musk-dhs-new-disinformation-governance-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Discomforting\u2019: Elon Musk Reacts To The DHS\u2019 New Disinformation Governance Board)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you really think Jancowicz is anywhere near objective enough for this particular job?\u201d Baier asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I do and by the way, highly regarded as a subject matter expert, and I don\u2019t question her objectivity,\u201d Mayorkas replied. \u201cThere are people in the department who have a diverse range of views, and they\u2019re incredibly dedicated to mission. We\u2019re not the opinion police. She has testified before Congress a number of times. She\u2019s recognized as a tremendous authority, and we\u2019re very fortunate to have her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz also raised <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/25\/twitter-sells-elon-musk-purchase-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concern<\/a> about Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter, saying, \u201cI shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d that the agency\u2019s new disinformation board will not infringe on U.S. citizens\u2019 free speech rights.The department announced the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1481149,"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-1459555","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\/1459555","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=1459555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}