{"id":1560719,"date":"2022-07-19T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1560719"},"modified":"2022-07-19T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:05:14","slug":"us-advisory-panel-says-no-need-for-disinformation-governance-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-advisory-panel-says-no-need-for-disinformation-governance-board\/","title":{"rendered":"US Advisory Panel Says No Need for Disinformation Governance 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\">20<\/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%2Fus-advisory-panel-says-no-need-for-disinformation-governance-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=1560719&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>A U.S. advisory panel on July 18 said it is recommending that the government\u2019s disinformation board is not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, we have concluded that there is no need for a Disinformation Governance Board,\u201d the panel said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were given.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security during the George W. Bush administration and Jamie Gorelick, a deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, co-chair the panel, the\u00a0Disinformation Best Practices and Safeguards Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.<\/p>\n<p>The panel\u2019s members were chosen by Homeland Security Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-alejandro-mayorkas\">Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a>, a Biden appointee who\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/grassley-hawley-say-mayorkas-misled-congress-on-status-of-dhs-disinformation-board_4522345.html\">whistleblower documents showed<\/a>\u2014offered disinformation about the origins of the Disinformation Governance Board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Mayorkas will meet with the Chairs of this HSAC subcommittee to discuss their recommendation and looks forward to their more comprehensive final report and recommendations regarding the work overall, which are expected to be delivered in August,\u201d a DHS spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee said its conclusion that the board is not necessary came after briefings \u201con the relevant disinformation-related activities of the\u201d department. It said it plans to issue a draft report to the council in early August.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018False Attacks\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>DHS claimed in March that the board was \u201cnever about censorship or policing speech in any manner,\u201d decrying \u201cfalse attacks\u201d against it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the board was aimed at ensuring the agency\u2019s work on disinformation \u201cprotects free speech, civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy,\u201d DHS said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It named combating false and misleading information from human traffickers, foreign adversaries, and transnational criminal organizations among its targets.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republican-lawmakers-voice-concern-bidens-orwellian-disinformation-board_4438652.html\">said the efforts<\/a> appeared designed to suppress free speech. They also alleged that the formation of the board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-disinformation-board-likely-illegal-sen-hagerty_4454590.html\">was likely illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas, who worked in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. advisory panel on July 18 said it is recommending that the government\u2019s disinformation board is not necessary. \u201cAt this point, we have concluded that there is no need for a Disinformation Governance Board,\u201d the panel said in a statement. No further details were given. 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