{"id":1722115,"date":"2022-11-02T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722115"},"modified":"2022-11-02T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:04:39","slug":"taxpayer-funded-voice-of-america-runs-story-claiming-disinfo-will-spark-election-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxpayer-funded-voice-of-america-runs-story-claiming-disinfo-will-spark-election-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer-Funded &#8220;Voice of America&#8221; Runs Story Claiming Disinfo Will Spark Election Violence"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftaxpayer-funded-voice-of-america-runs-story-claiming-disinfo-will-spark-election-violence%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=1722115&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>The sky is falling! A state media outlet is using its massive budget to spread government propaganda about so-called \u201cdisinformation\u201d possibly causing \u201celection violence.\u201d In other words, it&#8217;s calling for censorship.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/> Voice of America, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidevoa.com\/p\/5829.html#:~:text=VOA%20is%20funded%20by%20the,U.S.%20Agency%20for%20Global%20Media.\">funded<\/a> by taxpayers and boasted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usagm.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/USAGM-VOA-OneSheet-12-01-21.pdf\">$257 million<\/a> annual budget in FY2021, ran a nutty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/officials-fear-disinformation-could-spark-us-election-violence-\/6816275.html\">story<\/a> that read like a White House press release headlined: \u201cOfficials Fear Disinformation Could Spark US Election Violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VOA National Security Correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/author\/jeff-seldin\/mtqqr\">Jeff Seldin<\/a> teed up his propaganda: \u201cWith just one week to go until the U.S. midterm elections, a key senior U.S. official is expressing concerns that misinformation, or influence operations by U.S. adversaries, could ignite violence at the polls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cState and local officials have also reported seeing more calls for violence on social media, including threats against election officials and some calls for a civil war.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seldin\u2019s primary sources? Biden administration flunkies such as Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/joseph-vazquez\/2022\/08\/25\/dhs-abolishes-orwellian-disinformation-governance-board\">mastermind<\/a> and Department of Homeland Security Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/person\/alejandro-mayorkas\">Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a> in addition to Biden\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/jen-easterly\">Jen Easterly<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seldin undercut his own story in the second paragraph by acknowledging that Department of Homeland Security and FBI officials \u201csaid they have found no traces of specific or credible threats to the November 8 vote.\u201d But that didn\u2019t stop Seldin from elevating Easterly\u2019s election scaremongering, who reportedly grumbled: \u201c\u2018You&#8217;ve got disinformation and misinformation, which can be used by foreign adversaries to sow discord among the American people to undermine confidence in the integrity of our elections and to incite violence against election officials.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_100_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/><\/p>\n<p>Seldin also turned to comments by Mayorkas, who propagandized that \u201c\u2018[i]t is a very sad state of affairs when election officials are worried about their security. \u2026 We have reports of a number of election officials expressing concern.\u2019&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seldin conveniently didn\u2019t mention anything about the notorious DGB under Mayorkas\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/joseph-vazquez\/2022\/06\/09\/watch-hawley-joins-tucker-expose-new-whistleblower-info\">DHS<\/a> or how it was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/brian-bradley\/2022\/10\/31\/intercept-exposes-facebook-creation-portal-govt\"> exposed for allegedly coordinating<\/a> with Big Tech companies like Twitter and Facebook to target Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Voice of America propagandist continued to rely upon DHS \u201cofficials\u201d for comments to spice up his reporting. \u201c\u2018Myriad conspiracy theories continue to proliferate, with various narratives associated with false claims about the [2020] election,&#8221; said DHS Assistant Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/medialibrary\/assets\/images\/25478\">Samantha Vinograd<\/a>, noting those claims \u2018have a historical basis in cementing clear and credible violence.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same leftist Vinograd who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/tim-graham\/2019\/03\/03\/so-bitter-cnn-analyst-sam-vinograd-hears-echoes-hitler-putin-trump\">once compared<\/a> former President Donald Trump to Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler during a segment on CNN in 2019. She was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.net\/community\/samantha-vinograd\/\">national security analyst<\/a> with the network at the time. Of course, Seldin didn\u2019t bother mentioning this bit of objectivity-wrecking context either.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<p>Seldin undercut himself again by acknowledging that Biden\u2019s posse in Washington D.C. still haven\u2019t found a direct link between so-called \u201cdisinformation\u201d and \u201cviolence,\u201d but proceeded to push the government talking points any way:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While senior U.S. officials <strong>have yet to draw a direct link between specific disinformation and specific cases of election-related violence, they say there is no doubt <\/strong>adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran have consistently pushed to increase political tensions within the U.S, [emphasis added.]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>#DefundVOA.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conservatives are under attack.<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><em>Contact your <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/find-your-representative\"><em>representative<\/em><\/a><em> in Congress and request they #DefundVOA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky is falling! 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