{"id":1479809,"date":"2022-05-18T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T19:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479809"},"modified":"2022-05-18T15:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T19:59:50","slug":"bidens-disinformation-chief-resigns-after-homeland-security-puts-board-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-disinformation-chief-resigns-after-homeland-security-puts-board-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Disinformation \u2018Chief\u2019 Resigns After Homeland Security Puts Board On Hold"},"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%2Fbidens-disinformation-chief-resigns-after-homeland-security-puts-board-on-hold%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=1479809&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\/04\/Untitled-design-8.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/05\/18\/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz\/\">reported<\/a> that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was pausing its Disinformation Governance Board that supposedly intended to monitor issues online relating to \u201cnational security.\u201d Shortly after, President Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the body, dubbed the \u201cMinistry of Truth\u201d by critics, announced her resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street Journal reporter Dustin Volz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dnvolz\/status\/1526956440228872193?s=20&#038;t=0vPQ89GjQ5Xl8l-VsQt2Uw\">confirmed<\/a> Wednesday morning a story first reported by The Washington Post which claimed that DHS had put the kibosh on the newly created board on Monday \u201camid internal confusion and uncertainty about its future.\u201d Volz added that Nina Jankowicz, an author and \u201cexpert\u201d on disinformation, was resigning as the board\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Board\u2019s work paused and its future uncertain, and I have decided to leave DHS to return to my work in the public sphere,\u201d Jankowicz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dnvolz\/status\/1526960062194925575?s=20&#038;t=0vPQ89GjQ5Xl8l-VsQt2Uw\">said<\/a>, Volz reported. \u201cIt is deeply disappointing that mischaracterizations of the Board became a distraction from the Department\u2019s vital work, and indeed, along with recent events globally and nationally, embodies why it is necessary. I maintain my commitment to building awareness of disinformation\u2019s threats and trust the Department will do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wiczipedia<\/a>: &#8220;With the Board\u2019s work paused and its future uncertain, and I have decided to leave DHS to return to my work in the public sphere. It is deeply disappointing that mischaracterizations of the Board became a distraction from the Department\u2019s vital work&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AG8GjoFp1i\">pic.twitter.com\/AG8GjoFp1i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dnvolz\/status\/1526960062194925575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Post reported that the disinformation board was not actually intended to censor speech, but rather protect it, as one source told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s source placed the blame for the board\u2019s collapse at the hands of DHS for being unprepared to handle so-called \u201cdisinformation campaigns\u201d from Right-wing media. The paper implied that conservatives were lying about the board, but conservatives have argued that the vagueness of the board\u2019s mission meant it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/is-federal-censorship-coming-biden-admin-creating-disinformation-governance-board-report\">could potentially be used<\/a> in conjunction with Big Tech to censor certain stories deemed \u201cnational security threats\u201d by some gatekeepers, thereby trampling on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The board was also announced shortly after former President Barack Obama delivered a speech calling for the federal government and private leaders to work hand in hand to combat disinformation related to \u201cnational security threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In late April of this year, Obama stated that he believed that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1517333877580197888?s=20&#038;t=igo9GF8zFLCBSqSwznkybw\">some democratic oversight<\/a>\u201d was needed on the internet to supposedly protect democracies from disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we should use every tool at our disposal to secure our greatest gift \u2013 a government of, by, and for the people \u2013 for generations to come,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1517333885255790592?s=20&#038;t=igo9GF8zFLCBSqSwznkybw\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Critics speculated that the board would be used towards those ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was pausing its Disinformation Governance Board that supposedly intended to monitor issues online relating to \u201cnational security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1480737,"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-1479809","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\/1479809","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}