{"id":1464106,"date":"2022-05-04T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464106"},"modified":"2022-05-04T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T19:59:40","slug":"mayorkas-admits-dhs-chose-disinfo-czar-without-knowing-about-her-social-media-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-admits-dhs-chose-disinfo-czar-without-knowing-about-her-social-media-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas Admits DHS Chose Disinfo Czar Without Knowing About Her Social Media Videos"},"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\">26<\/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-admits-dhs-chose-disinfo-czar-without-knowing-about-her-social-media-videos%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=1464106&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1395371538.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas conceded during a Wednesday hearing that he was \u201cnot aware\u201d of some of the videos posted on social media by Nina Jankowicz, who was tapped by his department last week to head the Disinformation Governance Board.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas fielded questions from a Senate Appropriations subcommittee about the recently-announced board and the decision to appoint Jankowicz to lead it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KENNEDY: &#8220;When the department picked [Nina Jankowicz], was the department aware of her Tik Tok videos? They&#8217;re really quite precocious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MAYORKAS: &#8220;I was not aware of those videos.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eBgbwDMpok\">pic.twitter.com\/eBgbwDMpok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1521865178513563648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen the department picked [Nina Jankowicz], was the department aware of her Tik Tok videos? They\u2019re really quite precocious,\u201d Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) asked, referencing now viral videos of Jankowicz singing about disinformation to the tune of the \u201cMary Poppins\u201d song, \u201cSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not aware of those videos,\u201d Mayorkas replied.<\/p>\n<p>The video Kennedy referenced was posted by Jankowicz on February 17, 2021, with the caption, \u201cYou can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation \ud83d\udc81\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eGV9lpctYn\">https:\/\/t.co\/eGV9lpctYn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WVQFA2bPmq\">pic.twitter.com\/WVQFA2bPmq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nina Jankowicz \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@wiczipedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1362153807879303171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other comments she has made on social media \u2014 including referring to the New York Post\u2019s story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as Russian disinformation \u2014 led Republicans and even CNN anchor Dana Bash to question Mayorkas as to whether or not he believes Jankowicz is capable of leading the Disinformation Governance Board without allowing her own <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/my-ears-want-to-commit-suicide-greg-gutfeld-bashes-thought-police-over-new-chiefs-mary-poppins-mash-up\/\">personal political views<\/a> to affect her job.<\/p>\n<p>Bash <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/guarantee-that-dana-bash-corners-mayorkas-with-concerns-disinfo-board-will-monitor-americans\/\">pressed Mayorkas<\/a> on the matter on Sunday morning\u2019s broadcast of \u201cState of the Union,\u201d asking him to \u201cguarantee\u201d that the board would not monitor Americans in its efforts to root out disinformation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mayorkas: Nina Jankowicz \u201ceminently qualified\u201d to lead disinformation board; \u201cabsolutely\u201d  neutral politically<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas also obfuscates on whether he\u2019d support the same effort under Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9N1d0Pgny0\">pic.twitter.com\/9N1d0Pgny0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1520768074668023809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mayorkas insisted that Jankowicz would \u201cabsolutely\u201d be neutral in that position, but did not have a direct answer when Bash countered with a question about whether he would support a similar board being stood up under an administration headed by former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you be okay if Donald Trump were president, if he created this disinformation governance board? Or \u2014 if it is in place and he wins again in 2024 \u2014 that he\u2019s in charge of such a thing?\u201d Bash asked.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas evaded the direct question, saying instead, \u201cI believe that this working group, that gathers together best practices, makes sure that our work is coordinated, consistent with those best practices, that we\u2019re safeguarding the right of free speech, that we\u2019re safeguarding civil liberties, I think, is an extraordinarily important endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas conceded during a Wednesday hearing that he was \u201cnot aware\u201d of some of the videos posted on social media by Nina Jankowicz, who was tapped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1481617,"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-1464106","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\/1464106","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}