{"id":1459709,"date":"2022-05-02T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459709"},"modified":"2022-05-02T05:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T09:15:13","slug":"the-nurse-ratched-of-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nurse-ratched-of-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nurse Ratched of Disinformation"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fthe-nurse-ratched-of-disinformation%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=1459709&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><span>When we first heard Alejandro Mayorkas announce a Department of Homeland Security &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board,&#8221; we thought he was trolling. Then he said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/video-meet-bidens-cringey-disinformation-czar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Nina Jankowicz<\/span><\/a><span>, best known as TikTok\u2019s &#8220;Mary Poppins of Disinformation,&#8221; would head it. LOL, as the kids say. Right out of the gate, Jankowicz <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1519274470049042432?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>trumpeted<\/span><\/a><span> her &#8220;committment [sic] to protecting free speech.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Apparently Mayorkas is serious, and the administration is rolling out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1519282822158110721?s=20&#038;t=Kq8NKTEzbA3Fw2EczrLLNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Jankowicz<\/span><\/a><span>, author of the new book &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09SHB7CY6\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&#038;btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>How to Be a Woman Online<\/span><\/a><span>,&#8221; as a &#8220;renowned expert in the field of disinformation.&#8221; That\u2019s true, though she\u2019s more a practitioner of the craft than an expert in combating it. Jankowicz <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1319463138107031553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>condemned<\/span><\/a><span> the <\/span><i><span>New York Post&#8217;<\/span><\/i><span>s reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as a &#8220;Russian influence op&#8221; and fanned the bogus claim that the Steele dossier began as a &#8220;Republican opposition research project.&#8221; These are fine examples of Democrats, as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2020-man-of-the-year-matt-yglesias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span> man of the year Matt Yglesias<\/span><\/a><span> explained in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slowboring.com\/p\/misinformation?s=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>recent analysis<\/span><\/a><span>, using the &#8220;disinformation&#8221; charge as a scapegoat for losing voters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As for her commitment to unfettered speech, Jankowicz told her friends at National Public Radio <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/16\/1093212502\/women-face-disproportionate-attacks-online-one-expert-shares-some-of-the-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>last month<\/span><\/a><span> that she &#8220;shudder[s]&#8221; to think about a scenario in which &#8220;free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms&#8221; and bemoaned so-called &#8220;awful but lawful content.&#8221; The solution? &#8220;Law enforcement and our legislatures,&#8221; she said, must &#8220;do more.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mayorkas, meanwhile, is busy tamping down the concerns of proles like us that the Nurse Ratched of disinformation will have any power. &#8220;The board does not have any operational authority or capability,&#8221; he told CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash. &#8220;What it will do is gather together best practices of addressing the threat of disinformation from foreign state adversaries, from the cartels, and disseminate those practices to the operators that have been executing and addressing this threat for years.&#8221; Sounds like disinformation to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The administration dispenses Orwellian lies on a daily basis. We may be in a recession, but that\u2019s just masking a broader recovery! <\/span><span>That $3.5 trillion spending bill actually costs zero dollars! And, per Mayorkas <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6305481541112#sp=show-clips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>jawboning on another topic<\/span><\/a><span> on Sunday, the administration has done a fine job managing a ballooning crisis on the southern border.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is Joe Biden\u2019s nut house. We&#8217;re just living in it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first heard Alejandro Mayorkas announce a Department of Homeland Security &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board,&#8221; we thought he was trolling. Then he said Nina Jankowicz, best known as TikTok\u2019s &#8220;Mary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1894233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459709","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\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}