{"id":2030872,"date":"2023-09-13T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-taps-disinformation-researcher-who-applauded-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:09:07","slug":"pentagon-taps-disinformation-researcher-who-applauded-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-taps-disinformation-researcher-who-applauded-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon selects disinformation researcher who supported Hunter Biden laptop story censorship."},"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%2Fpentagon-taps-disinformation-researcher-who-applauded-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story%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=2030872&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>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Lisa Kaplan has worked\u2062 with former \u2063Biden disinformation \u200cczar Nina Jankowicz<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>      Lisa Kaplan (YouTube).<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Biden\u200c administration\u200c has tapped a researcher who applauded\u200d Twitter for censoring stories about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop to &#8220;proactively respond&#8221; to international disinformation \u200dcampaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department in May inked a \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/CONT_AWD_FA864923P0814_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-list-gets-longer-all-the-ways-hillary-the-government-spied-on-trump\/\" title=\"The List Gets Longer: All The Ways Hillary &#038; The Government Spied On Trump\">tech firm run<\/a> by Lisa Kaplan, a disinformation researcher who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisackaplan\/status\/1316461483841200130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Twitter\u2019s decision to block links to the <em>New York Post\u2019s<\/em> October 2020 \u2063story about the \u2063troubled first son was\u200d a\u2064 &#8220;good move.&#8221; \u200bKaplan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/2020-usa-votes_blocking-tweets-twitter-protecting-election-or-interfering\/6197194.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">applauded<\/a> the social\u200d media giant\u2019s &#8220;efforts \u2026 to address disinformation, making it \u200cso that people can&#8217;t share a link known to\u200b be false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan\u2019s support for \u2064the censorship\u2062 of a legitimate news \u200cstory could raise concerns about the reliability of her work for the Pentagon. According to government spending\u2062 records, the\u2062 Pentagon awarded a $72,321 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/CONT_AWD_FA864923P0814_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract<\/a> this year to Kaplan\u2019s firm, LCK Strategies, for a software tool that tracks global disinformation campaigns. That follows a $49,328 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/CONT_AWD_FA864922P0469_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract<\/a> to LCK\u2062 Strategies in 2021\u200c to \u2062build\u2064 a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-deploying-new-tech-to-help-avoid-maintenance-problems\/\" title=\"Navy Deploying New Tech to Help Avoid Maintenance Problems\">machine learning tool<\/a>&#8221; \u2063to detect and &#8220;mitigate&#8221; disinformation. LCK Strategies, which\u2064 Kaplan launched in 2019, also operates under the name Alethea Group.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alethea.com\/artemis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> it provides &#8220;unrivaled intelligence\u2063 on disinformation networks&#8221; through its software tool, called Artemis. The \u200btool &#8220;conducts multi-channel analysis\u2062 across a broad array of online content, including forums, social media and other \u200bresources to proactively \u2063identify and investigate disinformation online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The contract is \u2062the\u2062 latest example\u2063 of the Biden administration relying on disinformation researchers who have called for censorship of legitimate\u2064 news \u200bstories or themselves promoted disinformation. Last\u2064 year, the Department \u200cof Homeland Security hired researcher Nina Jankowicz to lead its Disinformation Governance Board, ostensibly launched to combat \u200cdisinformation related to Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine and\u2063 the U.S.-Mexico border crisis. Republicans \u2063questioned the board\u2019s mandate after it emerged that Jankowicz <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/the-nurse-ratched-of-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> the release\u200b of Hunter \u2064Biden\u2019s \u2063emails\u2064 was part of a &#8220;Russian influence\u200d op.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No \u2064evidence has emerged to \u2062support that \u2064claim.\u200b Instead,\u200d Hunter Biden\u200c abandoned his laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop in\u2062 April 2019. The FBI \u200cauthenticated the laptop in \u2064late 2019, according to government documents\u200d released\u200d earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan\u2019s assertion that the <em>New \u200bYork Post<\/em>\u2019s \u2063story \u200babout\u200d Hunter Biden was &#8220;known to be false&#8221; has likewise been\u2062 debunked. The\u200b <em>Post<\/em> had\u200c reported that Biden\u2019s laptop\u2062 included an\u2062 email\u2064 from a\u200b Ukrainian \u2062business partner in May 2015 thanking him for a dinner event with \u2063then-Vice President Joe Biden \u200din\u2062 Washington, D.C. While the Biden campaign initially \u200ddisputed that\u2064 Joe Biden attended the event, a longtime Hunter Biden business \u200cassociate <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Devon-Archer-Transcript.pdf#page=134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Congress last month that the \u2063dinner occurred.<\/p>\n<p>It is perhaps no surprise that Jankowicz \u2062and Kaplan have worked together in the\u2062 past. Alethea \u200dGroup <a href=\"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/fa\/b7\/d727e1b34e08b99a49cb50b9f32f\/aletheahires.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hired<\/a> Jankowicz \u2063in 2021 \u200cas its director of external engagement, to &#8220;educate the public about the impact of disinformation on public safety, public health, and the \u200cfunctioning of global \u200ddemocracies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-awards-anti-extremism-grants-to-british-think-tank-under-congressional-scrutiny-for-targeting-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has awarded<\/a> other\u2062 controversial grants this year\u200c to organizations that\u200c support censorship of so-called \u200ddisinformation. The Institute for\u2063 Strategic \u200dDialogue, a \u2064British \u200dthink tank that \u200creceived $80,000 to\u2062 study extremism in the military, called\u200c for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a> to &#8220;actively monitor&#8221; conservative pundits like Ben Shapiro, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-taps-disinformation-researcher-who-applauded-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/\" title=\"Pentagon selects disinformation researcher who supported Hunter Biden laptop story censorship.\">allegedly misgendering\u2064 biologically male athletes<\/a> who\u200c compete\u200d in women\u2019s \u200bsports.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan and the Department of Defense did not respond to requests for \u200dcomment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>researcher who has praised Twitter&#8217;s censorship of stories related to Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop. Lisa Kaplan will now work alongside former Biden disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz to combat international disinformation campaigns. The Defense Department recently signed a contract with Kaplan&#8217;s tech firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2030873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2030872","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}