{"id":1771457,"date":"2022-12-11T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771457"},"modified":"2022-12-11T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T13:34:42","slug":"ex-disinfo-czar-jankowicz-and-other-dhs-officials-planned-meeting-with-facebooks-head-of-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-disinfo-czar-jankowicz-and-other-dhs-officials-planned-meeting-with-facebooks-head-of-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Disinfo Czar Jankowicz and Other DHS Officials Planned Meeting With Facebook&#8217;s Head of Security"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fex-disinfo-czar-jankowicz-and-other-dhs-officials-planned-meeting-with-facebooks-head-of-security%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=1771457&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 class=\"subheading\">Records obtained by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) show that Nina Jankowicz \u2013 the executive director of the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) now-terminated Disinformation Governance Board \u2013 and other DHS officials planned to meet with Facebook (now known as Meta) Head of Security Nathaniel Gleicher, who served under that title when the company suppressed the <em>New York Post\u2019s<\/em> reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s \u201claptop from hell\u201d in the lead-up to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Hawley recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/hawley-investigation-dhs-documents-expose-shocking-new-details-disinfo-board-censorship-agenda\">obtained<\/a> DHS documents showing email correspondence among employees, including Jankowicz, regarding the Disinformation Governance Board and its steering group. While Hawley noted in a letter to Mayorkas that previous whistleblower documents<em>\u00a0\u201c<\/em>revealed that the Board was engaging with Twitter on possible censorship activities,\u201d the trove of heavily redacted documents he obtained last week indicates Jankowicz and officials from other groups within the DHS planned to meet with Gleicher this past April.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On March 31, Sandra Luff \u2013 a registered lobbyist for Facebook, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/lobbyists\/summary?id=YX000054123L\">Open Secrets<\/a>, and its director of Executive Branch Public Policy, according to\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legistorm.com\/person\/bio\/7697\/Sandra_E_Luff.html\">Legistorm<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-11\/2022-11-30-Senator-Hawley-DHS-Tranche-2.pdf\">emailed<\/a> DHS\u00a0Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans Robert Silvers about setting up a meeting. Though the unredacted parts of the email do not explicitly say who from Facebook would be involved in such a meeting, she concluded the email with a short biography about Gleicher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/Luff-Email-March-31-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22797893 size-full\" title=\"Senator Josh Hawley\u2019s office\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/Luff-Email-March-31-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"863\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">On April 4, a woman named Becky Moore emailed Silvers on behalf of Facebook \u201cregarding potentially finding time on your calendar\u201d when Gleicher was to be in town later that week and the early part of the following week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/Becky-Moore-Email-April-4-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22797913 size-full\" title=\"Senator Josh Hawley\u2019s office\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/Becky-Moore-Email-April-4-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silvers copied Jankowicz, Principal Deputy General Counsel for cyber issues Jen Daskal, and Brandon Wales, who Silvers identified as the \u201cresponse coordinator for the Ukraine crisis,\u201d on the email.<\/p>\n<p>Daskal then emailed Moore, stating that she was removing Silvers from the email correspondence \u201cgiven the conflict\u201d and expressed her, Jankowicz, and Wales\u2019s desire to meet with Gleicher. The three officials were set for a meeting with the Facebook head and other DHS staff on the afternoon of April 7 \u2013 and even communicated about it the day of. While it appears as though the meeting most likely materialized based on the information available, it is not clear if it actually occurred.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/Daskal-Email-April-4-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22797898 size-full\" title=\"Senator Josh Hawley\u2019s office\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/Daskal-Email-April-4-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">According to Gleicher\u2019s LinkedIn, he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nathaniel-gleicher-32167211\/\">served<\/a> as Facebook\u2019s head of security policy since January 2018. His employment timeline shows he was serving in the capacity of head of security when the company limited the distribution of the <em>Post\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Hunter Biden \u201claptop from hell\u201d story in October 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>As Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast over the summer, the FBI sounded the alarm to Facebook over the potential for \u201cRussian Propaganda\u201d ahead of the election:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI, I think basically came to us \u2014 some folks on our team \u2014 and was like, \u2018Hey, um, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/12\/06\/morris-multiple-indications-fbi-intelligence-agencies-guided-censorship-of-the-laptop-from-hell\/\">said<\/a> Zuckerberg. \u201cThere was the \u2014 we thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that basically there\u2019s about to be some kind of dump of \u2014 that\u2019s similar to that. So just be vigilant.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On October 14, 2020 \u2013 the day the post\u2019s reporting was published \u2013 Gleicher retweeted a thread he posted in August regarding the company\u2019s recent \u201cCoordinated Inauthentic Takedowns\u201d that were \u201clinked to Russian actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a good reminder that threat actors \u2014 including from Russia \u2014 will continue to try to manipulate public debate globally and in the US, including by trying to trick journalists into doing their amplification for them,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ngleicher\/status\/1309217166508666880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1316369411377369088%7Ctwgr%5E71cc8380a33ad859ea87f67e9718c4baff4dfa61%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D22782458action%3Dedit\">read<\/a>\u00a0the specific tweet he quoted on October 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cGiven this morning\u2019s news cycle, feels like a good time to reboost this,\u201d wrote Gleicher in the retweet, seemingly alluding to the <em>Post\u2019s<\/em> reporting on the \u201claptop from hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Given this morning&#8217;s news cycle, feels like a good time to reboost this: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qMQLksPKwk\">https:\/\/t.co\/qMQLksPKwk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nathaniel Gleicher (@ngleicher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ngleicher\/status\/1316369411377369088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As tech news company Protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/facebook-viral-misinformation-policy-hunter-biden\">reported<\/a> on October 14, 2020, in the lead-up to the election, Gleicher was warning of potential Russian \u201c\u2018hack and leak\u2019 operations to anyone who [would] listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the communication between the FBI and Facebook occurred prior to Gleicher\u2019s August warning. On October 19, 2020, a number of ex-intelligence officers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000\">penned<\/a> an open letter asserting that the laptop story had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,\u201d but Breitbart News Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris, who broke the story at the <em>New York Post<\/em>, had already verified the laptop contents before the story was published, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/21\/nolte-days-after-major-election-cbs-finally-verifies-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16456220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published\u00a0<i>Secret Empires<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Profiles in Corruption<\/i>. Each book hit #1 on the\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter\u2019s firm\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2019\/05\/04\/vanity-fair-hunter-bidens-1-5-billion-bank-of-china-deal-looming-on-the-horizon-as-campaign-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inked<\/a>\u00a0a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government\u2019s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer\u2019s work also\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/09\/peter-schweizers-red-handed-hits-1-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list-for-5th-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uncovered<\/a>\u00a0the Biden family\u2019s other vast and\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/24\/bombshell-biden-family-scored-31-million-from-deals-with-individuals-with-direct-ties-to-the-highest-levels-of-chinese-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lucrative<\/a>\u00a0foreign deals and cronyism.<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">Morris\u2019\u00a0investigative work\u00a0at the\u00a0<i>New York Post\u00a0<\/i>on the Hunter Biden \u201claptop from hell\u201d also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/07\/morris-the-legacy-media-has-not-conceded-the-laptop-from-hell-reporting\/\">captured<\/a> international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter\u2019s businesses, appearing to even <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/15\/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm\/\">have<\/a> a\u00a010 percent\u00a0stake in a company the scion\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/24\/bombshell-biden-family-scored-31-million-from-deals-with-individuals-with-direct-ties-to-the-highest-levels-of-chinese-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formed<\/a>\u00a0with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records obtained by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) show that Nina Jankowicz \u2013 the executive director of the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) now-terminated Disinformation Governance Board \u2013 and other DHS officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,5062,7492,7763,6623,5639,7762,4470,3638,7764,3819,3646],"class_list":["post-1771457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-czar","tag-dhs","tag-ex-disinfo","tag-facebooks","tag-head","tag-jankowicz","tag-meeting","tag-officials","tag-planned","tag-report","tag-security"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771457","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}