{"id":568252,"date":"2021-06-18T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568252"},"modified":"2021-06-18T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:51:57","slug":"biden-admin-turns-national-security-agencies-against-online-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-turns-national-security-agencies-against-online-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Turns National Security Agencies Against Online \u2018Misinformation\u2019"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-turns-national-security-agencies-against-online-misinformation%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=568252&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden3-scaled-e1624044953138.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Federal law enforcement and various intelligence agencies are bolstering programs to police online speech and purported &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; according to a report released by President Joe Biden\u2019s National Security Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The report, titled the &#8220;National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,&#8221; details myriad initiatives and strategies to help counter &#8220;the threat posed by domestic terrorism today.&#8221; Chief among the concerns for White House national security officials is the proliferation of &#8220;Internet-based communications platforms.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response, the federal government, led by the Department of Homeland Security, is &#8220;funding and implementing or planning evidence-based digital programming&#8221; aimed at &#8220;enhancing media literacy and critical thinking skills&#8221; of the public. These federal programs, the NSC alleges, will serve &#8220;as a mechanism for strengthening [American] \u2026 resilience to disinformation and misinformation online.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We will pursue innovative ways to foster and cultivate digital literacy and related programs, including educational materials and interactive online resources such as skills-enhancing online games,&#8221; the report reads. &#8220;This can prove a useful component to forging the resilience that may help to stem domestic terrorism recruitment and mobilization to violence.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Although vague on which groups of individuals constitute a threat, the report delves into a number of killings and acts of vandalism by white supremacists, while glancing over prominent examples of anti-police and politically motivated domestic attacks. Black nationalist <\/span><span>Micah Xavier Johnson, the man who murdered five Dallas police officers in 2016, is described simply as &#8220;an anti-authority violent extremist&#8221; in the report. Similarly, no motive is given for the left-wing activist who shot Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) and attempted to murder other Republican congressmen at a baseball practice in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enhancing faith in American democracy demands accelerating work to contend with an information environment that challenges healthy democratic discourse,&#8221; the report reads. &#8220;We will work toward finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories that can provide a gateway to terrorist violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>According to the report, the Biden administration endorses the &#8220;Christchurch Call,&#8221; a series of sweeping regulations to &#8220;eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.&#8221; Governments that endorse the Christchurch Call support media &#8220;industry standards \u2026 to ensure that reporting on terrorist attacks does not amplify terrorist and violent extremist content.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Christchurch Call, founded in the wake of a New Zealand mosque shooting in 2019, demands greater cooperation between governments and the private sector to police extremist content with the help of &#8220;expertise from academia, researchers, and civil society.&#8221; The Christchurch Call also leaves open the caveat that &#8220;governments, online service providers, and civil society may wish to take further cooperative action to address a broader range of harmful online content.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since Biden entered the White House, his Department of Homeland Security has quietly prioritized the policing of suspected right-wing extremists. On May 20, DHS released a guide &#8220;<\/span><span>for how individuals can be resilient to harmful or false narratives in the online space and effective when consuming and sharing information online.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;<\/span><span>Modern technology continues to make the spread of propaganda and the manipulation of information easier,&#8221; the guide reads. &#8220;Social media and traditional news media sources can be both victims and perpetrators of spreading misinformation and disinformation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to DHS, warning signs that internet content may be the product of a disinformation campaign include a lack of &#8220;contradicting information&#8221; and articles that do not include the names of authors, a standard practice by news outlets such as the Associated Press and <i><\/i>the<i>\u00a0Economist<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal law enforcement and various intelligence agencies are bolstering programs to police online speech and purported &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; according to a report released by President Joe Biden\u2019s National Security Council.\u00a0 The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2280732,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden3-scaled-e1624044953138.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Admin Turns National Security Agencies Against Online \u2018Misinformation\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden3-scaled-e1624044953138.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Admin Turns National Security Agencies Against Online \u2018Misinformation\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568252","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}