{"id":1461354,"date":"2022-05-03T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461354"},"modified":"2022-05-03T08:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:00:33","slug":"6-dystopian-things-bidens-disinformation-board-pick-nina-jankowicz-has-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-dystopian-things-bidens-disinformation-board-pick-nina-jankowicz-has-done\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Dystopian Things Biden\u2019s \u2018Disinformation Board\u2019 Pick Nina Jankowicz Has Done"},"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\">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%2F6-dystopian-things-bidens-disinformation-board-pick-nina-jankowicz-has-done%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=1461354&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--><p>Mere days after eccentric billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s buyout of Twitter sent the political censors into a tizzy, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mayorkas-better-job-disinformation-board\">debuted<\/a> a \u201cDisinformation Governance Board\u201d to crack down on online speech the White House doesn\u2019t like. The proposed agency, which would fall under the Department of Homeland Security, already merits the comparisons many have drawn to George Orwell\u2019s \u201cministry of truth,\u201d but Joe Biden\u2019s appointment of Nina Jankowicz to be the board\u2019s executive director makes the hackery even more obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Here are six of the most dystopian things Jankowicz \u2014 whom DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ridiculously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/dhs-secretary-mayorkas-nina-jankowicz-is-absolutely-politically-neutral\/\">called<\/a> \u201cabsolutely\u201d politically neutral \u2014 has ever said or done.<\/p>\n<h2>1. When She Helped Choke the Hunter Biden Bombshell<\/h2>\n<p>Shortly after The New York Post broke inflammatory news of damning emails and photos on a laptop belonging to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter, Jankowicz aided the coordinated effort by legacy media and Big Tech to quash the story right before the election.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press (among many other outlets) pooh-poohed the explosive news, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-ukraine-elections-134406f28e826380924bbcf773d2c05a\">citing<\/a> Jankowicz\u2019s input to claim \u201cdisinformation experts say there are multiple red flags that raise doubts about their authenticity, including questions about whether the laptop actually belongs to Hunter Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should view it as a Trump campaign product,\u201d Jankowicz told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year later, even corporate outlets including both The New York Times and The Washington Post quietly, grudgingly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/washington-post-new-york-times-deserve-no-credit-for-grudgingly-admitting-what-we-all-knew-about-hunter-biden-in-2020\/\">admitted<\/a> the laptop is indeed real. In other words, the woman tapped to lead Biden\u2019s disinformation Gestapo has herself engaged in textbook disinformation.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Her Creepy Mary Poppins Disinformation Song<\/h2>\n<p>In February 2021, Jankowicz posted a very weird video on TikTok singing about so-called disinformation to the tune of an iconic \u201cMary Poppins\u201d song. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation laundering is really quite ferocious. It\u2019s when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious, by saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet, so disinformation\u2019s origins are slightly less atrocious,\u201d she sang in the bizarre jingle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<h2>3. That Time She Called for Censoring Memes<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest challenge in identifying this content both for our team and for platforms is what we\u2019ve dubbed \u2018malign creativity\u2019 \u2014 the coded language, memes, and context-based content which allow harmful posts to avoid detection,\u201d Jankowicz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1353722007138009088\">tweeted<\/a> in a thread about content she thinks needs more censoring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271631\" width=\"553\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.png 718w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-300x129.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A related report she co-authored went so far as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/publication\/malign-creativity-how-gender-sex-and-lies-are-weaponized-against-women-online\">claim<\/a> that \u201cmalign creativity,\u201d including \u201citerative, context-based visual and textual memes,\u201d is \u201cthe greatest obstacle to detecting and enforcing against online gendered abuse and disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>4. When She Suggested Using Cops to Police Online Speech<\/h2>\n<p>Discussing \u201conline abuse\u201d toward women in an April interview, Jankowicz insisted, \u201cWe need to at least upskill police officers and local law enforcement to deal with these things and perhaps start some collaboration.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the UK, they\u2019re looking at making the content that they call \u2018awful, but lawful\u2019 illegal,\u201d she continued. \u201cI think we need to think about that as well, because again, going back to the comparative situation, if I were walking down the street and there were a bunch of men yelling these slurs at me, the police would intervene, I could get a restraining order against these people who are coming back again and again to say these things to me. Online, that just doesn\u2019t exist yet. So I\u2019m hopeful for that architecture to come into play.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<h2>5. When She Sang Praises for The Russia Disinformation Hoax\u2019s Christopher Steele<\/h2>\n<p>In August 2020, Jankowicz tweeted about what a great authority Christopher Steele was on disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListened to this last night- Chris Steele (yes THAT Chris Steele) provides some great historical context about the evolution of disinfo. Worth a listen,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1291692143262814209\">tweeted<\/a> about a podcast appearance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271638\" width=\"556\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1.png 709w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-300x176.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Steele is the infamous ex-MI6 agent who was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\">hired<\/a> in 2016 by FusionGPS (which was hired by Perkins Coie, the law firm representing Hilary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign) to manufacture a collection of sensational lies about then-candidate Donald Trump, which became known as the Steele dossier. The dossier was then peddled to the FBI and various media outlets, and serves as the basis for years of false slanders about Trump via the Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz\u2019s praise of Steele is just one more instance of her support for actual disinformation when it fits her agenda. She wants to police Twitter memes, but is totally cool with lies fabricated by a Democrat presidential candidate\u2019s campaign to take down her opponent and choke his presidency.<\/p>\n<h2>6. When She Called Insulting Kamala Harris a Threat to Democracy<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI wrote about the online gendered abuse I experienced, and the attacks we tracked against<br \/>@KamalaHarris, @AOC, @IlhanMN, &#038; more,\u201d Jankowicz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1354803359274864652\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter, referring to an article she wrote for Wired. \u201cPlatforms and governments aren\u2019t doing enough. It\u2019s time to act. Our national security and democracy are at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly unpleasant when cowardly people choose to tear down others for no good reason from behind a computer screen. But you don\u2019t have to defend any actually malicious comments about Democrats like Kamala Harris to remember that the same media types whining now have hurled countless and inexcusable slander at Republican women like <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/12\/the-ghost-of-sarah-palin-will-haunt-the-media-this-election-cycle\/\">Sarah Palin<\/a> without batting an eye. Double standard aside, online insults are hardly the biggest national security threat to America today.<\/p>\n<p>By no means is Jankowicz\u2019s disturbing history alone what makes the \u201cdisinformation board\u201d so foreboding. It\u2019s not unlikely Biden will yank her name from the ring once her radicalism becomes more widely known, or in an attempt to tamp down criticism of the new unit. <\/p>\n<p>But with or without her, the proposed agency is just as dystopian as it sounds \u2014 and any Americans who value the First Amendment should speak out against it while they still can.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mere days after eccentric billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s buyout of Twitter sent the political censors into a tizzy, the Biden administration debuted a \u201cDisinformation Governance Board\u201d to crack down on online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"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-1461354","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\/1461354","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\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461354\/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=1461354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}