{"id":1927808,"date":"2023-05-10T02:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T06:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-disinformation-governance-board-2-0-is-here\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:01:53","slug":"the-disinformation-governance-board-2-0-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-disinformation-governance-board-2-0-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"New version of the &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board&#8221; is now available."},"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%2Fthe-disinformation-governance-board-2-0-is-here%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=1927808&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>New Federal Office to Protect US Public Opinion from Foreign Disinformation Sparks Controversy<\/p>\n<h2>Critics Sound Alarm Over New Federal Office<\/h2>\n<p>Critics are sounding the alarm that a new federal office to shield U.S. public opinion from purported threats of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-democrats-the-media-are-thirsty-to-have-back-in-politics\/\" title=\"3 Democrats The Media Are Thirsty To Have Back In Politics\">foreign disinformation<\/a> is a thinly veiled reboot under a new name of the abortive Disinformation Governance Board, the Homeland Security Department office abandoned after being defined in the public mind as an Orwellian &#8220;Ministry of Truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>New Foreign Malign Influence Center Sparks Fears<\/h2>\n<p>Housed in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the new Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) was launched with little public notice but is already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-ukraine-can-take-back-crimea\/\" title=\"How Ukraine Can Take Back Crimea\">provoking fears<\/a> that it will use overstated foreign threats as a pretext to interfere in domestic political debate or will duplicate other federal efforts, especially a controversial State Department unit that tries to squelch populism abroad.<\/p>\n<h3>FMIC&#8217;s Objective<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The threat to U.S. democratic processes and institutions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-committee-seeks-records-from-15-tech-platforms\/\" title=\"Jan. 6 Committee Seeks Records From 15 Tech Platforms\">foreign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">malign influence<\/a><\/a> is persistent and dynamic,&#8221; according to FMIC&#8217;s undated fact sheet. &#8220;Informing efforts to counter it requires constant attention, a whole-of-government approach, support from the private sector, and engagement from the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Policing Domestic Narratives<\/h3>\n<p>Though its name starts with &#8220;foreign,&#8221; FMIC&#8217;s congressionally determined objective includes protecting American &#8220;public opinion,&#8221; suggesting the potential for policing domestic narratives.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversy Over FMIC&#8217;s Launch<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear whether ODNI proactively told the public about the center until Thursday, when Director Avril Haines mentioned it 45 minutes into a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. It&#8217;s not even mentioned in her prepared testimony, which discusses &#8220;malign influence&#8221; several times.<\/p>\n<h3>FMIC&#8217;s Funding and Purpose<\/h3>\n<p>The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 approved initial funding for FMIC, which was first established in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report March 28.<\/p>\n<p>Congress tasked the center with protecting &#8220;political, military, economic, or other policies or activities&#8221; of federal, state and local governments, including elections, and domestic &#8220;public opinion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Similar Federal Entities<\/h3>\n<p>Haines&#8217; testimony was surfaced on Friday by The Intercept, which noted other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-disinformation-governance-board-2-0-is-here\/\" title=\"New version of the \"Disinformation Governance Board\" is now available.\">federal entities play similar roles<\/a>: the FBI&#8217;s Foreign Influence Task Force, DHS&#8217; Countering Foreign Influence Task Force and Foreign Influence and Interference Branch, and the Pentagon&#8217;s year-old Influence and Perception Management Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics are sounding the alarm that a new federal office to shield U.S. public opinion from purported threats of foreign disinformation is a thinly veiled reboot under a new name of the abortive Disinformation Governance Board, the Homeland Security Department office abandoned after being defined in the public mind as an Orwellian &#8220;Ministry of Truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1927809,"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":[9899,25647,3664,20683,7501],"class_list":["post-1927808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-disinformation","tag-available","tag-board","tag-governance","tag-version"],"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\/1927808","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=1927808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}