{"id":1462371,"date":"2022-05-03T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462371"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:45:21","slug":"journalists-news-outlets-cheer-biden-censorship-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalists-news-outlets-cheer-biden-censorship-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists, News Outlets Cheer Biden Censorship 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\">14<\/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%2Fjournalists-news-outlets-cheer-biden-censorship-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=1462371&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>For six years, Democrats and the media were fixated on Russian-related misinformation:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BE77C0B3-6BA7-4AEF-941A-D5C0EBE6761C_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/237BF6FE-DE62-4FA8-AFFA-5D7FE1BABD48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"946\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/C39808B4-969B-44B1-BC83-7DDC108D3CE3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But now, it seems they&#8217;ve decided enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-immigration-media-europe-misinformation-4e873389889bb1d9e2ad8659d9975e9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled<\/a> the Disinformation Governance Board, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that will monitor and address online &#8220;misinformation.&#8221; Conservatives and press freedom groups raised concerns that the board would threaten a free and fair media.<\/p>\n<p>You would think the brave truth-tellers in the media would blanch at the government interfering with the press. But instead, the First Amendment warriors in the corporate press zeroed in on the real problem: conservatives who oppose censorship.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/29\/disinformation-governance-board-dhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blamed<\/a> conservative critics for getting caught up in a &#8220;growing anti-censorship fervor&#8221; tied to the board.<\/p>\n<p>CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentHBaker\/status\/1520802405499215882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the board &#8220;sounds like common sense&#8221; and wrote off censorship worries as\u00a0&#8220;mostly a Fox World story.&#8221; The <em>Daily Beast<\/em> even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/fox-news-hosts-tucker-carlson-sean-hannity-rage-against-new-government-disinformation-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chronicled<\/a> all the Fox hosts who mentioned the effort.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/C39B87C6-F434-4427-8428-DF3971B7474A.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Benen, a producer at MSNBC&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Rachel Maddow Show<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/homeland-security-tackles-disinformation-right-balks-rcna26633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the move &#8220;rather anodyne&#8221; and &#8220;hardly shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>News outlets took the Biden administration at its word that the Disinformation Governance Board won&#8217;t threaten free speech.<\/p>\n<p>One <em>MarketWatch<\/em>\u00a0headline declared:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/91EBA186-4223-4D45-BFE4-8FCAA76D142E.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The media did not mention that the board&#8217;s executive director, Nina Jankowicz,\u00a0has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/united-states\/2021-01-12\/day-internet-came-them?check_logged_in=1&#038;utm_medium=promo_email&#038;utm_source=lo_flows&#038;utm_campaign=registered_user_welcome&#038;utm_term=email_1&#038;utm_content=20220502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a>\u00a0U.S. leaders for &#8220;blandly invoking the First Amendment&#8221; in response to the &#8220;spread of dangerous ideas on the Internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8A36DE55-65BD-4BE7-9AF8-F21B95333373.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nor did reporters note that Jankowicz, an alleged &#8220;disinformation expert,&#8221; has a history of pushing disinformation. Jankowicz endorsed the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as &#8220;Russian disinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But according to the<em>\u00a0Post<\/em>, Jankowicz merely\u00a0&#8220;expressed skepticism about the provenance of Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just what the remit is for the &#8220;Disinformation&#8221; Board remains unclear, as a DHS spokesperson shared only minimal details with the Associated Press:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2022\/05\/549D6D71-133A-4A56-8772-7FA56496A819_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"67\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On this point, even the <em>Post<\/em> concedes an issue with the board: &#8220;It would certainly be nice to know more about what precisely it is\u2014and what it will do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For six years, Democrats and the media were fixated on Russian-related misinformation:   But now, it seems they&#8217;ve decided enough is enough. 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